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AD 1891.]

apply to NT

PREPARED OPIUM.

4. N.3.20/99 in 5.510-6·90 4 qu ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1891

[No. 8.

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161/09

AN ORDINANCE to amend the Law relating to the A.D. 1891.

Preparation of Opium.

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[28th December, 1891.]

Ordinance -No. 21 of 1891,

with Ordi-

nances No. 4 of

1894, No. 15 E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and of 1897, No. 1

consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

of 1898, and No. 21 of 1899 incorporated.

1 This Ordinance may be cited as the Prepared Opium Ordinance, Short title. 1891

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires,

The Colony" includes the waters thereof:

Excise Officer" means any person appointed under the Ordinances. hereby repealed and continued under this Ordinance or any person appointed by the Governor under this Ordinance as an Excise Officer

"Farm" means any exclusive privilege granted under this Ordinance: Farmer means any holder for the time being of any such exclusive privilege

Opium" includes dross and dross opium:

Prepared Opium," so far as relates to the infringement of the Opium Farmer's privilege of preparing opium within the Colony, means topium which has been subjected to any degree of artificial. heat for any purpose whatever, and includes dross opium whenever such a construction is consistent with the context:

Dross

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means the refuse produced by smoking opium, and “Dross Opium" means opium prepared wholly or chiefly from such refuse:

Opium Divan" includes any house, room, or other place- (1) used for the sale of prepared opium or dross opium to be

smoked on the premises; or

:

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used by the public for the smoking of prepared opium or dross opium where a fee or its equivalent is charged, or the dross resulting from such smoking is retained by or on behalf of the keeper for his benefit:

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"Opium Farmer means the holder for the time being of the exclusive privilege of preparing and selling prepared opium, either inclusive or exclusive of dross opium :

"Dross-Farmer" means the holder, if any, for the time being of the exclusive privilege of collecting and purchasing dross and preparing and dealing in dross opium:

Divan Farmer means the holder, if any, for the time being of

Interpretation of terms.

Ord. 160/1909. Sec.?