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60 THE HONG KONG GOVERNME

TE, JANUARY 29, 1930.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 62.

W

THE DANGEROUS DRUGS ORDINANCE, 1923.

(ORDINANCE No. 22 or 1923).

THEREAS by section 5 (4) of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1923, power is conferred on the Governor in Council to declare that the said Ordinance shall apply to any drug of whatever kind in the same manner as it applies to the drugs mentioned in section 5 (1) of the said Ordinance if it appears to the Governor in Council that the drug is or is likely to be productive, if improperly used, of ill effects substan- tially of the same character or nature as or analogous to those produced by morphine or cocaine :

And whereas it appears to the Governor in Council that esters of morphine and their respective salts and any preparations containing any of the said esters are pro- ductive, if improperly used, of ill effects substantially of the same character or nature as or analogous to those produced by morphine or cocaine :

Now, therefore, the Governor in Council, in pursuance of the power conferred upon him by section 5 (4) of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1923, hereby declares that the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1923, shall henceforth apply to esters of morphine and their respective salts and to any preparation, admixture and extract containing any of the said esters.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

25th January, 1930.

D. W. TRATMAN,

Clerk of Councils.

NOTES.-Regulation 1 of the regulations made under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1923, is

as follows

1. These regulations shall, except where otherwise expressed, apply to all the drugs to which

the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1923, from time to time for the time being applies.

The regulations are set forth

on pages 810 to 821 of the Regulations of Hong Kong, 1844-1925, and must be read with the amendments appearing in Government Notifications Nos. 191 of 1928 and 133 of 1929, and any further amendments hereafter made.

The Esters of morphine do not include and should not be confused with the Ethers of morphine -for example, methylmorphine (codeine), ethylmorphine (dionin), to which the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance does not apply.

No. 63.

Regulations made by the Governor in Council under section 4 of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1923, Ordinance No. 22 of 1923, on the 25th day of January, 1930.

The regulations made by the Governor in Council under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1923, and set forth on pages 810 to 821 of the Regulations of Hong Kong, 1844-1925, amended as appears in Government Notifications Nos. 191 of 1928 and 133 of 1929, are hereby further amended as follows,--

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