Article Amended. 1 (i) 1 (xvi) 1 (xvii) 1 (Xviia) SCHEDULE. Detailed Amendments. Nature of Amendment. At end, there shall be inserted: "The Controller shall also act as Administrator of German property for the purposes of this Order, and in that capacity is, in this Order, referred to as the Administrator.'" In the proviso for "Custodian" wherever that The word "Administrator" shall be substituted In sub-paragraph (ccccc) for the words "of which At the end of sub-paragraph (d) there shall be ORDINANCE of the Government of Antigua to provide for the Production of Passports by Persons coming into the Presidency. [No. 8.] [June 28, 1923.] I assent, (L.S.) EUSTACE FIENNES, Bart., Governor, June 28, 1923. BE it ordained by the Governor and Legislative Council of Antigua as follows: 1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Passport Ordinance, 1923." 2. In this Ordinance the expression "passenger " includes any person carried on a ship other than a master or person employed in the work or service of the ship. The expression passenger in transit" means a passenger who is leaving the Presidency in the same ship by which he arrives and on the same voyage of the said ship. The expression "valid passport" means a passport complying with the requirements prescribed by the Governor by regulation. 3. A person coming from any place out of the colony as a passenger shall not land in the Presidency until he has produced to the Harbour Master a valid passport with his photograph attached thereto issued to him not more than five years previously by and on behalf of the Government of the country of which he is a subject or citizen: provided that a person may be allowed to land on satisfying the Harbour Master that he is a passenger in transit, and provided also that a tourist or labourer may land in accordance with regulations made by the Governor under this Ordinance. 4. The Governor may from time to time make regulations with respect to the admission of tourists or labourers into the Presidency without passports, and also with respect to the form, visa, or endorsement requisite to constitute a valid passport. 5. Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any regulations made under the same shall be guilty of an offence and shall on summary conviction thereof be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding £50, or to both such imprisonment and fine. 6. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the 1st day of July, 1923. EUSTACE FIENNES, Bart., Passed the Legislative Council the 25th day of June, 1923. Clerk of the Council. Dated at Antigua, the 28th day of June, 1923, in the fourteenth year of His Majesty's reign. Duly published at Antigua the 29th day of June, 1923. Provost Marshal. ACT of the Government of the Bahama Islands to consolidate and amend an Act to give effect to the Measures decided upon in the International Opium Convention signed at The Hague on the 23rd day of January, 1912, and to regulate the Importation into and Storage and Disposal of Opium, Morphine, Cocaine and similar Drugs in the Colony. [14 Geo. V, c. 6.] [Assented to April 24, 1924.] WHEREAS the Government of the colony are bound by the International Opium Convention signed at The Hague on the 23rd January, 1912(1); And whereas it is expedient to regulate the importation, landing, storage and disposal of opium, morphine, cocaine and similar drugs: May it please the King's Most Excellent Majesty that it may be enacted and be it enacted by His Excellency Major Sir Harry Edward Spiller Cordeaux, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Bahama Islands, the Legislative Council and Assembly of the said Islands, and it is hereby enacted and ordained by the authority of the same as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Opium Act, 1924." 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires― Cocaine" means the principal alkaloid of the leaves of Erythroxylon Coca having the formula C17, H21, N04. 66 Heroin" means the Biacetyl morphine, having the formula C21, H23, N05. "Magistrate" includes Commissioner. 66 "Medical practitioner " means any person registered under The Medical Act, 1906," or any Act in amendment thereof or substitution therefor, and includes the Chief Medical Officer, the Resident Surgeon of the Bahamas. General Hospital, the Colonial Surgeon and Medical Officers. "Medicinal opium" means raw opium which has been heated to 60° centigrade and contains not less than 10 per (1) Vol. CV. page 490. cent. of morphine, whether or not it be powdered or granulated or mixed with different materials. Morphine" means the principal alkaloid of opium, having the chemical formula C17, H19, N03. 66 66 9966 39 66 Opium," when used without any qualifying epithet, shall be taken to include raw opium, medicinal opium, "morphine," heroin, cocaine" and "similar drugs. "Prepared opium means the product of raw opium, obtained by a series of special operations, especially by dissolving, boiling, roasting and fermenting, designed to transform it into an extract suitable for consumption; and includes dross and all other residue remaining when opium has been smoked. Qualified person means and includes any of the persons referred to in Section 4 (1) of this Act. "Raw opium" means the spontaneously coagulated juice obtained from the capsules of the Papaver Somniferum which has only been submitted to the necessary manipulation for packing and transport. 66 Similar drugs "include (a.) All preparations whether officinal or non-officinal as well as the so-called anti-opium remedies, which contain more than 0.2 per cent. of morphine or more than 0.1 per cent. of cocaine. (b.) Heroin, its salts and preparations containing more than 0.1 per cent. of heroin. (c.) All new derivatives of morphine, of cocaine, or of their respective salts and every other alkaloid of opium which has been demonstrated by scientific research to be liable to similar abuse and in its abuse productive of like ill-effects. "Store" means any place appointed or prescribed by the rules for the storage or keeping of opium or prepared opium. 3. It shall not be lawful for any person to export from the colony any opium or prepared opium without the permission of the Governor in Council and except under licence provided for by the laws or regulations of the importing country and except in packages marked so as to indicate the contents thereof. 4.-(1.) It shall not be lawful for any person other than(a.) A registered medical practitioner; (b.) A registered dentist; (c.) A licensed veterinary surgeon; (d) A licensed druggist; (e.) A person to whom special permission is granted by the Governor in Council by Order in Council, to bring or import into the colony any opium or prepared opium and then only in accordance with this Act or any Rules made thereunder. (2.) It shall not be lawful to import opium or prepared opium into the colony except at the port of Nassau. (3.) Every qualified person shall in the first instance apply to the Colonial Secretary for permission to import opium or prepared opium, and shall state the purpose for which it is required; and every requisition for the export to the importer of any of such substances shall be accompanied by a certificate from the Colonial Secretary stating that the import of the consignment in question is approved by the Governor in Council and is required for legitimate purposes. In the case of drugs to which Chapter III of the International Opium Convention signed at The Hague on the 23rd January, 1912, applies, the certificate shall state specifically that they are required solely for medicinal or scientific purposes. (4.) The Governor in Council may by Order in Council require all opium or prepared opium imported or otherwise brought into the colony to be deposited at the dispensary of the Bahamas General Hospital at the risk of the importer, thence to be withdrawn on the certificate of the Colonial Secretary at the request in writing of a qualified person stating the purpose for which such opium or prepared opium is required. 5. Where any opium or prepared opium imported or otherwise brought into the colony is, without the proper authority, found in the possession of any person or stored or kept in a place other than a store, such person or the occupier of such place, unless he can prove that the same was deposited there without his knowledge or consent, and also the owner of, or other person guilty of keeping the opium or prepared opium, shall be guilty of an offence against this Act. 6. It shall not be lawful to grow or cultivate in any part of the colony opium poppy (Papaver Somniferum). 7. If any person (a.) Other than a qualified person, and if such qualified person otherwise than for the purposes of his profession or in the ordinary course of his retail business or for any other purpose for which special permission has been granted by the Governor in Council, manufactures, sells, or otherwise deals in opium or prepared opium; or (b.) Being the occupier of any premises permits those premises to be used for the purpose of the preparation of opium for smoking or use or consumption or the sale or smoking or use or consumption of prepared opium; or (c.) Is concerned in the management of any premises used for any such purpose as aforesaid; or (d.) Has in his possession any pipes or other utensils for use in connection with the smoking or use or consumption of opium or any utensils used in connection with the preparation of opium for smoking or use or consumption; or (e.) Smokes or otherwise uses prepared opium, or |