THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, Sтu MARCHI, 1884.
provided in schedules B or C to this Ordinance, according as there shall or shall not be, at the time of issuing such certificate, an Opiuma Farmer under this Ordinance. Such Certifientes shall be issued from Books provided with counterfoils, and both the Certificates and the Counterfoils shall bear corresponding and conscentive printed numbers.
17. No certificate so granted by the Opium Farmer or by any licenseo under him shall be valid after noon of the third day from the date of the expiration of such Opium Farmer's privilege.
18. Every Opium Farmer shall, one month before his farm expires, give public notice, in the form provided by the schedule D hereto, that the said farm is to expire on the day to be mamel, and that no boiled or prepared opium purchased from such Farmer, or from any licensee of such farmer, can be used after such time without the consent of the new Farmer. Such notice shall be printed in English and Chinese, and the farmer shall supply copies thereof to all persons licensed by him under this Ordinance: and every person so licensed shall exhibit the notice in his place of sale in a conspicuous position, so as to be plainly visible to every person cutering such place of sale.
19. All licensees of the Governor in Council under Section 15 of this Ordinance when there is no Opium Farmer shall during the last three months of the period of their licenses (if the Governor in Council shall have granted the Opium Farm to any Farmer) be subject to such restrictions as to the quantities of prepared opium they shall boil, pre- pare, or sell, as the Governor in Council may from time to time determine. Provided that such restrictions shall not apply to any license granted before the passing of this Ordinance.
20. Neither the Opium Farmer nor his licensees shall, during the three months preceding the end of his term, manufacture more than the usual quantity of boiled or pre- pared opium, or during the said three months sell any boiled or prepared opium at less than the average current prices of the day, or in greater quantities than usual at the time of the year, and at the end of his term such Farmer or licensees shall not sell, export, or otherwise make away with, or dispose of any of their stock of hoiled or prepared opium, but shall make over to the new Farmer the full and complete stock of raw or boiled and prepared opium then in their possession, at the marketable value thereof; and in the event of any difference arising as to the quantities of boiled and prepared opiùm manufactured or sold during the last three months of the term, and the price of the same, or as to the nature and quantity of the raw or boiled or pre- pared opium so to be purchased or made over, and the prices thereof, such difference shall be determined by three arbi- trators, one to be appointed by the new Farmer, one by the person whose farmi has expired or is about to expire, and one by the Governor, and the award of such arbitrators, or a majority of fliem, shall be final; and the arbitration or such other settlement shall be held at such time after the end of the term of the outgoing Farmer as to the Governor may seem reasonable, and any award made may be filed in Court pursuant to the provisions of the Hongkong Code of Civil Procedure.
21. It shall be lawful for the majority of the arbitrators to determine, and they are hereby empowered to decide in each particular case, what are usual quantities within the meaning of this Ordinance.
22. In case the outgoing or the incoming Opium Farmer fails to appoint an arbitrator within ten days from his receiving notice from the Governor so to do, it shall be Jawful for the other two arbitrators to proceed with the award, and in case of difference of opinion they shall appoint an umpire, whose award shall be final, and may be filed in Court pursuant to the provisions of the Hongkong Code of Civil Proceduro.
23. The Governor in fixing the time for holding the arbitration shall also fix the period within which the award is to be completed, and the same shall be specified in the appointment.
24. The arbitrators shall have the same powers as if the appointment and reference to arbitration had been made by an order of the Supreme Court under the provisions of the Hongkong Code of Civil Procedure, and their award in each case shall be final,
Expiry of certificate. (779, S. 4, 461x3, x. 3.)
Notice of expiration of farm.
(1 of 79, s. 3)
Restriction ca
liceusees.
Close of farm, stocks.
(1 of 79, s. 5. 7 of 79, s. 7. 4 of 3, s. 3.)
Usual quantities
(7 or 79, s. 7.)
If farmer appoints no arbitrator. 17 of 74, s. 7. 4 of 53, s. 3
Period for asant
(7 of 74, 8, 7.)
Powers of arbitrators. (70179, 8.70
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