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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 2, 1914.

No. 69.

Resolution made by the Legislative Council under Section 2 of Ordinance No. 9 of 1910 as incorporated in thẻ Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908, (Ordinance No. 12 of 1908), this 2nd day of March, 1914.

WHEREAS by section 2 of Ordinance No. 9 of 1910 as incorporated in the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908, it is provided inter alia that it shall be lawful for the Legislative Council at any time by resolution to declare that any article named and described in Schedule A to the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908, shall be deemed to be a poison for the purposes of Ordinance No. 9 of 1910, as incorporated in the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908:

AND WHEREAS the articles designated in the Schedule to this resolution are named and described in Schedule A to the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908:

Now it is hereby resolved and declared by the Legislative Council that the articles designated in the Schedule to this resolution shall be deemed to be poisons for the purposes of Ordinance No. 9 of 1910.

Schedule.

Morphine, Codeine and any alkaloid of opium, Heroin, Dionin, Peronin, their salts, derivatives, solutions, admixtures and preparations of any kind whatsoever of such, except prepared or smoking opium as prepared by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports.

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No. 70.

Resolution made by the Legislative Council under the provi- sions of Section 5 of the Opium Ordinance, 1914, (Ordinance No. 4 of 1914), this 2nd day of March, 1914.

WHEREAS by the provisions of section 5, sub-section (1), of the Opium Ordinance, 1914, it is provided as follows :—

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"No person shall import, or aid or abet the importation of any raw opium into the Colony, if such importation shall have been notified in the Gazette in "pursuance of any resolution of the Legislative Council as being illegal.”

Now it is hereby resolved that the importation of any kind of raw Indian opium except opium covered by Export Permits from the Government of India to the effect that it has been declared for shipment to or consumption in China is illegal; and it is further hereby resolved that a notification shall be made in the next issue of the Gazette to this effect.

No. 71.

Resolution made by the Legislative Council under the provi- sions of Section 10 of the Opium Ordinance, 1914, (Ordinance No. 4 of 1914), this 2nd day of March, 1914.

WHEREAS by the provisions of section 10, sub-section (5), of the Opium Ordinance, 1914, it is provided as follows:

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person shall export or aid or abet the exportation of any raw opium from "the Colony, if such exportation shall have been notified in the Gazette "in pursuance of any resolution of the Legislative Council as being illegal."

Now it is hereby resolved that the exportation of Persian opium to any port other than the port of London or a port of the Island of Formosa is illegal; and it is further hereby resolved that a notification shall be made in the next issue of the Gazette to this effect.