OPIUM.
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to any country or place not within the Colony of a quantity of prepared opium or dross opium, to be used for personal consumption on the voyage, not exceeding 5 mace for every day of the voyage.
Sale of Prepared Opium.
38.-(1) No person, except the opium farmer, shall prepare unlicensed opium within the Colony.
(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, prepared or dross opium.
(3) No person except the opium farmer or dross farmer or any person duly licensed under this Ordinance to deal in or prepare dross opium shall deal in or prepare any dross opium.
Provided that no trader in opium shall be prevented from bona fide testing samples of opium covered by a certificate under the proviso to section 6, 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.
39. (1) Every person selling prepared opium, shall deliver therewith a certificate, in English or Chinese, in such form as the Governor may approve, specifying the date of the sale, the name of the purchaser, and the quantity sold.
(2) The certificate shall be issued from books provided with counterfoils, and both the certificates and the counterfoils shall bear corresponding and consecutive printed numbers.
(3) The certificate 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; it shall not be transferable.
(4) 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 prepared 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 prepared opium, which permission shall appear on the certificate produced or put in evidence.
*As amended by No. 12 of 1912.
As amended by No. 50 of 1911, No. 12 of 1912 and No. 13 of 1912.
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OPIUM.
No. 23 of 1909.
1827
to any country or place not within the Colony of a quantity of pre- pared opium or dross opium, to be used for personal consumption on the voyage, not exceeding 5 mace for every day of the voyage.
Sale of Prepared Opium.
38.-(1) No person, except the opium farmer, shall prepare Unlicensed opium within the Colony.
preparation of opium.
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sale of pre-
(2) No person, except the opium farmer and any duly licensed Unlicensed person under this Ordinance, shall sell or offer or expose for sale any pared opium, prepared or dross opium.
(3) No person except the opium farmer or dross farmer or any person duly licensed under this Ordinance to deal in or prepare dross opium shall deal in or prepare any dross opium.
Provided that no trader in opium shall be prevented from boná fide testing samples of opium covered by a certificate under the proviso to section 6, and keeping the sarne 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.
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39. (1) Every person selling prepared opium, shall deliver Sale of pre- therewith a certificate, in English or Chinese, in such form as the pared opium Governor may approve, specifying the date of the sale, the name of the purchaser, and the quantity sold.
(2) The certificate shall be issued from books provided with counterfoils, and both the certificates and the counterfoils shall bear corresponding and consecutive printed numbers.
(3) The certificate 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; it shall not be transferable.
(4) If any person is charged with the possession of prepare: 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 prepared 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 fariner to keep or store prepared opium, which permission shall appear on the certificate produced or put in evidence.
*As amended by No. 12 of 1912.
As amended by No. 50 of 1911, No. 12 of 1912 and No. 13 of 1912.
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