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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOV. 8, 1906.

HONGKONG.

No. 15 of 1906.

An Ordinance to amend The Prepared Opium

Ordinance, 1891.

M. NATHAN,

LS

Governor.

Short title

and con- struction.

Amendment of section 2 of the Prin- cipal Ordin-

ance.

Definitions of "com- pound of opium" and **morphine".

New proviso substituted for proviso to section 10 of the Prin-

cipal Ordin-

ance.

Conditional licence for importing &c., mor- phine and compounds

of opium for sale or use within the Colony.

[8th November, 1906.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, us follows:-

1. This Ordinanec may be eited as The Prepared Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1906, and shall be read and cou- strued as one with The Prepared Opium Ordinance, 1891, hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance.

2. Section 2 of the Principal Ordinance shall be amend- ed by the addition of the following definitions :---

The expression compound of opium means any substance, not coming within the above defini- tion of prepared opium, which contains opium, or any constituent or alkaloid thereof, however the original form of such opium may have been altered.

Morphine" includes morphia and all salts of morphine and any solution or preparation con- taining morphine.

3. The proviso to section 10 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor :-

Provided that no trader in opium shall be prevented from bonâ fide testing samples of opium obtained in accordance with the provisions of any Ordinance for the time being in force relating to raw opium and keeping the same for the purposes of his trade, the burden of proof whereof shall in each case be upon any person alleging the same in his defence.”

4. After section 12 of the Principal Ordinance the following shall be inserted :

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Compounds of Opium,

12a. (L.) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in- Council to grant licences to such persons as he may think fit in such numbers as he may deem suitable and on such conditious as he may consider proper for importing for sale or use within the Colony, preparing, manufacturing, or dealing in morphine and compounds of opium, and any person so importing, manufacturing, or dealing in morphine or any compound of opium without such licence shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.

This sub-section shall not apply to morphine

or compounds of opium in transit. (2.) Any such licence may be revoked by the Governor-in-Council at his dis- eretion and without assigning cause.

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