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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 10, 1928.

Amendment

of Ordinance

No. 22 of 1923,

Schedule,

Import Certificate.

Addition of form of

Superin-

tendent's Certificate to the Schedule to Ordinance

No. 22 of 1923.

Power to exclude certain

the plant know as cannabis sativa, or the resin obtained from the said plant or from any part of the said plant, or any preparation of which the resin forms the base, or any preparation or mixture containing the said resin, whether the goods in question be in the Colony or else- where, and whether they be ascertained or appropriated or in existence or not, and whether it he intended that they should he imported into the Colony or not: Provided that this sub-section shall not apply to the extracts and tinctures of Indian hemp referred to in section 5 (1).

16. If the Governor in Conneil thinks fit to declare that a finding with respect to any preparations preparation containing any of the drugs to which this Ordinance applies has in pursuance

from the Ordinance.

15 and 16

s. 5.

of Article 8 of the Geneva Convention been communicated by the Council of the League of Geo. 5, c. 74, Nation to the parties to the said Convention, the provisions of this Ordinance shall as from such date as may be specified in the declara- tion cense to apply to the preparation specified therein.

12. The form of import certificate set out in the Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1923, is amended as follows:-

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(a) The words "International Opium Convention, 1925" are substituted for the words Inter- national Opium Convention, 1912" in the two places where the latter expression occars in the said form.

(b) The words ** solely for medicinal or scientific purposes at the end of the said certificate are repealed and the following words, with the marginal notes specified below, are substituted therefor :-

(a) In the case of coca leaves.

(b) In the

case of the drugs to which Chapter III

of the Convention applies.

(1) for legitimate purposes (a);

or

(2) solely for medicinal

scientific purposes (b).

or

13. The following form of Superintendent's Certificate is added to the Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Ordi- nance, 1923 : —

SUPERINTENDENT'S CERTIFICATE.

[8. 10.]

Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1923.

I,

(Assistant) Super-

intendent of Imports and Exports, hereby certify that on (date).

I received personally from (name or description of officer)

...a sealed packet

(or as the

case may be) marked (if any special mark)

which I found to contain

(quantity and nature of drug).. and that on (date)......................

I personally