Prohibition as to Criminals.

3. If any person, other than a person who has been resident in this State at or prior to the commencement of this Act

(i.) Has, before or after the commencement of this Act, been convicted in any other State, or in any place beyond the limits of this State

(a.) Of an offence against the Commonwealth Act, intituled "The Immigration Restriction Act, 1901,"* by reason of his being a prohibited immigrant within the definition in section 3, subsection (e) or (), of that Act, and being found within the Commonwealth in contravention or evasion of the said subsection (e) or (ƒ); or

(b.) On two or more occasions of an offence for which in such other State or place he was liable to suffer death, or to be imprisoned for one year or longer; and

(ii.) Comes into this State before the lapse of three years after the termination of any imprisonment suffered by him, or of any term of release or probation or of recognizance or suretyship to be of good behaviour in respect of any such offence— he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.

4. If any master or other person commanding any vessel brings in such vessel to any port or place in this State any person who, to his knowledge, has been convicted in any other State, or in any place beyond the limits of this State, of any offence mentioned in paragraph (b) of the last preceding section, and has within three years prior to the arrival of such vessel at such port or place been released from any imprisonment suffered in respect of such offence, he shall be liable, on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding 1007., or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months, or to both such penalty and imprisonment.

5. If any person having been convicted of an offence against this Act, and not having been discharged upon recognizance under this Act, remains in this State for a period of one month after the termination of any imprisonment suffered in respect of such offence, or having left returns to this State within three years after the termination of such imprisonment, he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.

6. If any person having been convicted of an offence against this Act, and having been discharged upon recognizance under this Act, commits a breach of such recognizance, he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and the convicting Police Magistrate or Justices shall forfeit the recognizance entered into by the offender and his sureties.

7. If any person harbours or conceals any person whom he knows or believes to be guilty of an offence against this Act, he shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding

* Vol. XCV, page 198.

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(3.) All persons apprehended as af men d taken before a Police Magistrate or å utde in this Act provided.

10. Any napprehended on seepleton of offence it may be discharget our

into a recognizance, veral sums as the 4

ditioned that such person shall appear at the time and place named in the recognizance.

11. All property found upon or in the possession of any person so apprehended shall be seized and detained; and in the event of his being convicted and sentenced under this Act may, in the discretion of the convicting Magistrate or Justices, be forfeited and sold

Supplemental.

12. All penalties, and the proceeds of the sale of any property forfeited under this Act, shall be paid into the Police Provident Fund, except such portion thereof, not exceeding one-half, as the convicting Magistrate or Justices may award to the informer.

13. A certificate signed by the Commissioner or other head or acting head of the police force of any other State or place beyond the limits of this State, setting forth

(i.) The name or names by which a person previously convicted in such State or place is known;

(ii.) A description of such person;

(iii.) The fact that he was so convicted; and

(iv.) The date on which, the place where, the offence for which, and the term of imprisonment to which such person was so convicted or sentenced

shall be admissible in any legal proceeding taken against a person accused of an offence against this Act as prima facie evidence of the facts stated in such certificate, and that such accused person was the person convicted and sentenced as therein set forth, and no proof shall be required of the signature or official position of the person appearing to have signed such certificate.

14. All informations for offences against this Act, and all penalties imposed by this Act, shall be heard, determined, and recovered in a summary way by and before a Police Magistrate or any two or more Justices in the mode prescribed by "The Magistrates Summary Procedure Act."

NOTICE of the Acting Governor of the Uganda Protectorate under "The Fugitive Criminals Surrender Ordinance, 1908."*-Entebbe, October 20, 1909.†

NOTICE is hereby given that Tonga is withdrawn from the list of foreign States and their Protectorates to which the

* Vol. CI, page 901. See also Notification of July 25, 1908. Vol. CI, page 910. Published in the "Uganda Official Gazette," No. 39, N

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above-mentioned Ordinance was applied by notice dated the 25th

Julv. 1908.

Entebbe, 20th October, 1909.

ALEXANDER BOYLE, Acting Governor.

ORDINANCE of the Commissioner of We- We pr
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(LS) R. WALTER,

Officer Administering the Government.

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3. No person bring into, or tak same have in lis

otherwise deal in, any opium or other hypnotic save under licence as hereinafter provided:

Provided that no medical practitioner, chemist, or druggist practising or dispensing within the territory, qualified so to do to the satisfaction of the Commissioner, and holding a certificate to be issued by the Commissioner to that effect, shall be hereby prevented from preparing or selling opium or other hypnotic for bona fide medicinal purposes. But such practitioner may prescribe for any one patient opium or other hypnotic only to the amount necessary for a period not exceeding forty-eight hours.

4. The Commissioner may issue licences to such persons as he shall think fit permitting them to import into the territory, or to sell within the same, opium or other hypnotic in such quantities, and at such times and subject to such restrictions, as the Commissioner may, by regulation made hereunder, enact.

5. A medical officer may, with the approval of the Commissioner, issue licences permitting the holders to buy, prepare, smoke, or otherwise use opium, such licences to be in such form as the Commissioner may, by regulation made hereunder, enact.

6.-(a.) A medical officer's licence to smoke or otherwise use opium shall only be issued to such persons as such medical officer may consider would be injured in health by the deprivation of the accustomed use of opium, and every such licence shall contain a certificate to that effect.

(b.) Such licence shall specify the description and amount of opium which the holder is thereby permitted to buy for personal use within a time therein specified.

(c.) Every such licence shall be for a time specified therein, not being longer than one year from the date of issue.

d.) Such licences shall be issued only to persons of full age, whose names, descriptions, and addresses shall be entered therein.

(e.) No such licence shall be issued to any female without the special sanction of the Commissioner first obtained.

(f) The amount of opium supplied and the date of supply shall be endorsed on the licence.

(9.) More than thirty days' supply shall not be sold at one time, nor a further supply sold till the period for which the last supply was sold has elapsed.

(.) Registers of licensed consumers shall be kept by the District Magistrate in such manner as the Commissioner shall direct.

7. Any certificate granted by the Commissioner to any medical practitioner, chemist, or druggist practising within the territory may, on enquiry held as the Commissioner may, by regulation made hereunder, provide, be suspended or cancelled by the Commissioner.

8. No person shall open or carry on any opium divan within the territory.

9. The Commissioner may from time to time appoint, in such form as he may, by regulation made hereunder, enact, such