35689-1914-Ordinances-passed-and-assented-to---Pharmacy--No-1-of-1914--Arms-and-ammunition-Amendment---No-3-of-1914--opium--No-4-of-1914 — Page 5

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 6, 1914.

"Loose Opium" means all raw opium found or dis- Loose Opium. covered otherwise than in a chest full of one quality of

raw opium:

Opium" includes raw opium, prepared opium, opium Opium. dross, dross opium and halan:

"Opium Divan"

kept, or used:--

means and includes any place opened, Opium

(1.) for the sale of prepared opium or dross opium

to be smoked in such place; or

(2.) for the smoking of prepared opium or dross opium where a fee or its equivalent is charged for such smoking or where any benefit or advantage whatever, direct or indirect, is derived by the keeper of such place in consequence of the smoking of prepared opium or dross opium in such place; or where the opium dross or halau produced by any persou smoking in such place is collected, received or retained by any person other than the smoker:

Divan.

"Opium Dross" means the residuum produced by smok- Opium Dross. ing prepared opium:

"Place" means and includes any house, room, office, Place. agency, vehicle or ship, or any erection movable or other- wise on land or on or in water:

Any opium, implement, or other thing shall, for the Possession. purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to be in the posses- sion of any person if he has such opium, implement, or thing in possession, custody or control, by himself or by any other person:

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'Prepared Opium" means any preparation of opium or Prepared any preparation in which opium forms au ingredient which Opium. preparation is used or intended to be used for smoking, but

it does not include dross opium or any of the alkaloids or

salts of the alkaloids of opium :

The subjecting of opium of any kind to any degree of Preparing artificial beat, for any purpose whatever, shall be taken to Opium. be the preparing of such opium :

"Raw Opium" means any kind of opium not prepared Raw Opium. for smoking, chewing, swallowing or injecting and includes the leaves or wrappings in which opium balls have been wrapped :

"Ship" includes any steam-vessel, sailing-vessel, junk, Ship. boat, or sampan, and any kind of craft used or adapted to be used either for the conveyance of persons or storage of things, whether afloat or not:

Steamship" includes any vessel propelled by steam Steamship. and any motor boat :

tendent.

"Superintendent" means the Superintendent of Imports Superin- and Exports and includes any Assistant Superintendent :

"Wharf" includes any warehouse or place adjoining a wharf and used in connection therewith:

PART I.

RAW OPIUM,

Wharf.

raw opium.

5.-(1.) No person shall import, or aid or abet the Restriction importation of any raw opium into the Colony, if such impor- on import of tation shall have been notified in the Gazette in pursuance of any resolution of the Legislative Council as being illegal.

(2.) The provisions of sub-section (1) of this section Exceptions. shall not apply

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(a.) to opium imported by the Superintendent ; (b.) to opium brought into the Colony on any ship under a bill of lading to some place to which such opium may by the laws of such place be lawfully imported, provided that such opium shall not be removed from such ship whilst in the waters of the Colony ;

(c.) to opinm brought into the Colony on any ship under a bill of lading to some place to which such opium may in pursuance of any resolution of the Legislative Council notified in the Gazette be lawfully imported and whether or not such importation is accompanied by direct or indirect transhipment in the Colony.

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