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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

from the Ordinance.

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16. If the Governor in Council 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 of Article 8 of the Geneva Convention been

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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 cease to apply to the preparation specificd therein.

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12. The form of import certificate set out in the Schedule to the Dancerous 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 occurs 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(b) The words "solely for medicinal or scientific purposes" at the end of the said certificate are repealed and the following words, with the marginal notes specified below, are substituted therefor :----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

scientific purposes (b).

medicinal

. Or

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

I,

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SUPERINTENDENT'S CERTIFICATE.

Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1923.

[S. 10.]

(Assistant) Super-

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

I received personally from (name or description of officer)

.................a sealed packet

ease may be) marked (if any special mark)

(quantity and nature of deng)... and that on (dure).....

(or as the

..which I found to contain

I personally

hauded the said (quantity and nature of drug).. to (name and description of officer)

in a sealed packet (or as the case may be)

special mark)..

marked (if any

Date...

(Assistant) Superintendent of

Imports and Exports.

Objects and Reasons.

1. The object of this bill is to enact the legislation required to give effect in Hong Kong to the terms of the International Convention signed at Geneva on the 19th February, 1925.

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