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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH OCTOBER, 1891.
Exhibition of badge by l'olice. (1 of 84, 7.)
Excise Officers taking bribes, &c.
Import and Possession of opium.
(1 of 84, 2.)
Unlicensed
preparation,
&..
(1 of 84, 3.)
Unlicensed divans.
(1 of 84.)
Male of prepared opium. (1 of 84, 16.)
Private use.
Certificate.
7. Every Police officer when acting under this Ordinance, if not in uniform, shall declare his office, and produce to the person against whom he acts such badge as the Captain Superintendent of Police may direct Police officers to carry when on secret or special service.
8. Any Excise Officer who shall take any bribe, or who shall not, on ceasing to be an Excise Officer, return to the Opium Farmer his uniform or accoutrements, badge or licence, shall on summary conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.
9. (1.) No person except the opium farmer, his li- censees, and persons duly authorised by him in writing shall bring into the Colony, or have in his possession within the same any prepared opium not being dross opium without having a valid certificate under section 12.
(2.) No person shall bring into the Colony or have in his possession within the same, any dross opium without the knowledge and consent of the dross farmer.
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(3.) No person except a dross farmer or a duly licensed person under this Ordinance shall, within the Colony, collect dross or have in his possession without the knowledge and consent of the dross farmer or his licensees any dross except such as may be the result of his own smoking or of the smoking of opium on his own premises (the burden of proof whereof shall lie upon such person), and such dross shall in no case exceed two taels in weight.
10. (1.) No person except the opium farmer shall within
the Colony prepare opium.
(2.) No person except the opium farmer and any duly licensed person under this Ordinance shall sell or offer or expose for sale any prepared opium. (3.) No person except the dross farmer and any duly licensed person under this Ordinance shall deal in or prepare dross opium.
Provided that no medical practitioner, chemist or druggist, not being a Chinese, or being such and having a European or American diploma, shall be prevented from preparing or selling opium bonâ fide for medicinal purposes and provided that no trader in opium shall be prevented from bonâ fide testing samples of opium obtained in accordance with the provisions of Ordinance No. 22 of 1887 or any Ordinance amending the same and keeping the same for the purposes of his trade the burden of proof whereof shall in each case be upon any person alleging the same in his defence.
11. (1.) No person shall open or carry on any divan or other place for the smoking of opium or dross opium without a licence in such form and upon such conditions as may be approved by the Governor in Council.
(2.) All licensed divans shall be open to the inspection of the Opium Farmer and all Excise Officers at all times of night and day.
12. (1.) Every person selling prepared opium, not being dross opium, shall deliver therewith a certificate in Chinese or English specifying the date of the sale, the name of the purchaser, and the quantity sold.
(2.) Where the opium is not intended for export the certificate shall be in the form B. in the schedule hereto, shall be stamped by the seller with the stamp used by him in carrying on his business, and shall be evidence of the facts therein stated, and shall not be transferable.
(3.) If any person is charged with the possession of prepared opium without a valid certificate, he shall not be entitled to produce or put in evidence or cause to be produced or put in evidence any certificate, as covering the opium in respect of which he is charged, prior in date to the last certificate granted to him, unless he has received permission from the opium farmer to keep or store opium, which permission shall appear on the certificate produced or put in evidence.
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