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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 1.- -The following Bill was read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 2nd January, 1930 :-

C.S.O. 12 in 99, 29.

[No. 40:-24.12.29.—1.]

A BILI

Short title. Ordinance No. 30 of 1923. Ordinance No. 7 of 1924.

Amendment

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend further the Opium

Ordinance, 1923.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Opium Amend- ment Ordinance, 1930; and the Opium Ordinance, 1923, the Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1924, and this Ordi- nauce, may be eited together as the Opium Ordinances, 1923-1930.

2. Paragraph (b) of section 2 (1) of the Opium Ordi- of Ordinance mance, 1923, is repeated and the following paragraph is

substituted therefor :-

No. 30 of

1923.

s. 2 (1) (0).

Amendment of Ordinance No. 30 of

1923,

s. 2 (1) (7).

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 30 of 1923, s. 4 (1) as enacted by Ordinance No. 7 of 1924, s. 2. Repeal of Ordinance No. 30 of 1923, s. 17,

(b) "To export" means to curry or other- wise despatch out of the Colony or to cause to be carried or despatched out of the Colony and includes the conveyance of opium out of the Colony by transit mail or any other mail and the carriage out of the Colony of opium which was carried into the Colony by water or by air and which is carried out of the Colony on the same ship or aircraft on which it was carried into the Colony with or with- out any landing or transhipment.

3. Paragraph (d) of section 2 (1) of the Opium Ordi- 1923, is repealed and the following paragraph is

nance,

substituted therefor :-

(d) "To import" means to carry or other- wise despatch into the Colony or to cause to be carried or otherwise despatched into the Colony and includes the conveyance of opium into the Colony by transit mail or any other mail and the earringe by water or by air into the Colony of opium which is intended to be carried out of the Colony on the same ship or aircraft on which it was carried into the Colony with or without any landing or tran- shipment.

4. Section 4 (1) of the Opium Ordinance, 1923, as enacted by section 2 of the Opium Amendment Ordi- nance, 1924, is amended by the insertion of the words "and whether it is intended that it should be imported into the Colony or not," immediately after the words “in existence or not ".

5. Section 17 of the Opium Ordinance, 1923, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-

Unlawful

and wrappers.

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17.-(1) No person shall without lawful and substitu- possession of authority or excuse have in his possession, tion of new Government section. opium labels except attached to a receptacle issued by the Superintendent and issued containing Government prepared opium, wrapper of a l...............eu by une superintendent for affixing to receptacles containing Govern- ment prepared opium, or any portion of any such label or wrapper.

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