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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette

No. 39.

EXTRAORDINARY.

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Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, WEDNESDAY, 25тH AUGUST, 1897.

VOL. XLIII.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 334.

The following Bills, which were read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held on the 23rd instant, are published.

Council Chamber, Hongkong, 25th August, 1897.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to further amend The Prepared Opium Ordinance, 1891.

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

struction.

1. This Ordinance may be cited, for all purposes as The Short title Prepared Opium (Divans) Ordinance, 1897, and shall be and con- construed as one with Ordinance No. 21 of 1891, (as amended by Ordinance No. 4 of 1894) hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance; and the three Ordinances may be cited together as The Prepared Opium Ordinances, 1891 to 1897.

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise Interpreta-

tion. requires, the expression "Opium Divan" shall include any house, room, or other place, used for the smoking of pre- pared Opium or dross Opium by others than the tenant and his family.

3. No person shall open or carry on any Opium Divan Opium without a valid Licence from the Colonial Secretary.

Divans to be licensed.

4. Such Licence shall be in the form set forth in the Form and Schedule to this Ordinance and be subject to the conditions cancellation

which may be endorsed upon it. It may, at any time, be of Licence.

cancelled by the Colonial Secretary for any failure to com- ply with the conditions under which it is granted or for any contravention of the requirements of the law for the time being in force relating to Opium or for any breach of any of the Regulations, for the time being in force, relating to Opium Divaus.

Such cancellation shall not, however, relieve any offender Proviso. from any penalty incurred under this or any other Ordi- nance or under any Sanitary Bye-laws or under any of such Regulations.

5. Opium Divans shall be open, at all times, to the ins Inspection pection of the Opium Farmer, of all Excise Officers, of of Opium Officers of the Police not being under the rank of Sergeant Divans, and of Officers of the Sanitary Board.

J. G. T. BUCKLE,

Clerk of Councils.