under, or otherwise than in accordance with, the provisions of The Pharmacy Act, 1868," as amended by The Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908," or to be in derogation of the provisions of "The Pharmacy Act, 1868," as so amended, for prohibiting, restricting, or regulating the sale of poisons.

8.-(1.) The drugs to which this Part of this Act applies are morphine, cocaine, ecgonine, and diamorphine (commonly known as heroin), and their respective salts, and medicinal opium, and any preparation, admixture, extract, or other substance containing not less than one-fifth per cent. of morphine or one-tenth per cent. of cocaine, ecgonine, or diamorphine.

For the purpose of the foregoing provision, the percentage in the case of morphine shall be calculated as in respect of anhydrous morphine.

(2.) If it appears to His Majesty that any new derivative of morphine or cocaine or of any salts of morphine or cocaine or any other alkaloid of opium or any other drug of whatever kind is or is likely to be productive, if improperly used, of ill effects substantially of the same character or nature as or analogous to those produced by morphine or cocaine, His Majesty may by Order in Council declare that this Part of this Act shall apply to that new derivative or alkaloid or other drug in the same manner as it applies to the drugs mentioned in Sub-Section (1) of this section.

PART IV.-General.

9.-(1.) Articles prohibited to be imported by virtue of this Act shall be deemed to be included among the goods enumerated and described in the table of prohibitions and restrictions inwards contained in Section 42 of "The Customs Consolidation Act, 1876," and the provisions of this Act relating to the prohibition of the export of articles shall have effect as though they were included in that Act, and the provisions of that Act and of any Act amending or extending that Act shall apply accordingly.

(2.) If any goods prohibited to be exported by virtue of this Act are exported from the United Kingdom in contravention thereof, or brought to a quay or other place to be shipped for the purpose of being so exported or of being waterborne to be so exported, the exporter or his agent shall be liable to the same penalty as that to which a person is liable under Section 186 of "The Customs Consolidation Act, 1876," for illegally importing prohibited goods.

10.—(1.) Any constable or other person authorised in that behalf by any general or special order of a Secretary of State shall, for the purposes of the execution of this Act, have power to enter the premises of any person carrying on

the business of a producer, manufacturer, seller or distributor of any drugs to which this Act applies, and to demand the production of and to inspect any books relating to dealings in any such drugs and to inspect any stocks of any such drugs.

(2.) If any person wilfully delays or obstructs any person in the exercise of his powers under this section or fails to produce or conceals or attempts to conceal any such books or stocks as aforesaid, he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.

11. Every regulation made under this Act shall be laid before each House of Parliament forthwith, and, if an address is presented to His Majesty within twenty-one days on which that House has sat next after any such regulation is laid before it praying that the regulation may be annulled, His Majesty in Council may annul the regulation and it shall thenceforth be void but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.

12. Licences or authorities for the purposes of this Act may be issued or granted by a Secretary of State and may be issued or granted on such terms and subject to such conditions (including in the case of a licence the payment. of a fee) as the Secretary of State thinks proper.

13.-(1.) If any person acts in contravention of or fails to comply with any regulation made under this Act, or acts in contravention of or fails to comply with the conditions of any licence issued or authority granted under or in pursuance of this Act, he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.

(2.) Any person guilty of an offence against this Act shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding 2001. or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment, and in the case of a second or subsequent. conviction to a fine not exceeding 500l., or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding two years, or to both such fine and imprisonment, and the Courtdealing with the case may, in addition to any other punishment, order the goods in respect of which the offence was committed to be forfeited.

(3.) Any proceedings for an offence against this Act before a Court of Summary Jurisdiction may, notwithstanding any enactment prescribing the time within which such proceedings may be brought, be brought either within the time so prescribed or within three months from the date on which evidence sufficient in the opinion of a Secretary of State to justify a prosecution for the offence comes to his knowledge, whichever is the longer, and, for the purposes of this sub-section, a certificate purporting to be signed by

the Secretary of State as to the date on which such evidence as aforesaid comes to his knowledge shall be conclusive evidence thereof.

In the application of this sub-section to Scotland the Lord Advocate, and in the application of this sub-section to Ireland the Attorney-General for Ireland, shall be substituted for a Secretary of State.

14. Any constable may arrest without warrant any person who has committed, or attempted to commit, or is reasonably suspected by the constable of having committed or attempted to commit, an offence against this Act, if he has reasonable ground for believing that that person will abscond unless arrested, or if the name and address of that person are unknown to and cannot be ascertained by him.

15.-(1.) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires

The expression "raw opium includes powdered or granulated opium, but does not include medicinal opium;

The expression "prepared opium" means opium prepared for smoking and includes dross and any other residues remaining after opium has been smoked;

The expression "medicinal opium
medicinal opium" means raw opium

which has been artifically dried:

The expression "regulations means regulations made under this Act by a Secretary of State;

The expression "prescribed means prescribed by regulations;

The expression "approved ports" means ports approved by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise for the importation or exportation, as the case may be, of raw opium.

(2.) For the purposes of this Act, any article shall be deemed to be imported under licence or exported under licence if the importer or exporter, as the case may be, is the holder of a licence issued under this Act authorising the importation or exportation, as the case may be, of the article and complies with the conditions, if any, of the licence, but not otherwise.

16. This Act in its application to Ireland shall have effect subject to the following modifications, namely:—

(a.) A reference to The Poisons (Ireland) Act, 1870," "The Pharmacy (Ireland) Act, 1875," and "The Pharmacy (Ireland) Act, 1875 (Amendment), Act, 1890," shall be substituted for any reference to The Pharmacy Act, 1868";

and

(b.) A reference to the Pharmaceutical Society i Ireland shall be substituted for the reference to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.

17. (1.) This Act may be cited as "The Dangerous Drugs Act, 1920."

(2.) This Act shall come into operation of the 1st day of September, 1920.

BRITISH NOTIFICATION of the Denunciation by Great Britain and the Termination of the Anglo-Liberian Agreement respecting the Manoh River, signed at Monrovia, April 10, 1913.-London, August 31, 1920.*

Foreign Office, August 31, 1920.

NOTICE of the decision of His Majesty's Government to terminate the Agreement between Great Britain and Liberia relative to the navigation of the Manoh River, signed at Monrovia on the 10th April, 1913,† was given to the Liberian Government by the Acting British Consul-General at Monrovia on the 23rd September, 1919. In accordance with the terms of the notice the Agreement should have ceased to have effect from the 23rd December, 1919, i.e., three months from the date of notification, but in deference to the wishes of the Liberian Government it was agreed that the 23rd March, 1920, should be substituted as the date of termination. The Agreement accordingly ceased to have effect from the latter date, viz., the 23rd March, 1920.

Prior to the termination of the Agreement, assurances were given to the Liberian Government that it was not the intention of His Majesty's Government, after the expiration of the Agreement, to close the Manoh River to navigation or to interfere with its navigation by Liberian vessels. These assurances were confirmed in an official note addressed to the Liberian Government by the Acting British Consul-General at Monrovia on the 24th March, 1920.

BRITISH NOTIFICATION of the Denunciation given on behalf of the Queen of Tonga and the Termination of the Commercial Treaty between Tonga and the United States of America, signed at Nukualofa, October 2, 1886. -London, September 9, 1920. ‡

Foreign Office, September 9, 1920. NOTICE of denunciation of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation, between Tonga and the United * "London Gazette," September 3, 1920. + Vol. CVI, page 798. "London Gazette," September 10, 1920.

States of America, signed at Nukualofa on the 2nd October, 1886,* was given to the United States Government by His Majesty's Government on behalf of the Queen of Tonga on the 28th July, 1919.

Provision was contained in Article XIV for the termination of the Treaty one year after notice had been given by either of the High Contracting Parties.

accordance with this provision and the terms of the notice of denunciation, the Treaty ceased to have effect from the 28th July last.

BRITISH NOTIFICATION of the Revival of bilateral Treaty Engagements between the British Empire and Austria after notice given in accordance with Article 241 of the Treaty of Peace, signed at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, September 10, 1919.-London, September 22, 1920.

Foreign Office, September 22, 1920.

In accordance with Article 241 of the Treaty of SaintGermain-en-Laye of the 10th September, 1919, notice was given to the Austrian Government on the 22nd September, 1920, that the following bilateral Treaties between the British Empire and Austria are revived from the date of this notice :

I.-Extradition.

(a.) Treaty signed at Vienna on the 3rd December, 1873, 3 between the United Kingdom and Austria for the mutual surrender of fugitive criminals.

(b.) Declaration signed at London on the 26th June, 1901, amending Article XI of the Treaty between the United Kingdom and Austria for the mutual surrender of fugitive criminals.

II.-Money Orders.

Arrangement between the Imperial and Royal Post Office of Austria and the Post Office of India signed at Calcutta, the 27th December, 1905, and at Vienna, the 25th January, 1906, for the exchange of Money Orders between Austria and India, including the modifications which came into • Vol. LXXVIII, page 778. +"London Gazette," November 2, 1920. § Vol. LXIII, page 213. || Vol. XCIV, page 5.

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