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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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8. Farming industries—
   General, without bushfelling .. .. 0 17 0
   Clearing and stumping land (no explosives) 2 5 0
   Agricultural-machine tenders .. .. 2 5 0
   Scrub-cutting, bill-hook or slasher only (no
   bushfelling) .. .. .. 1 15 0
   Clearing stumps by blasting .. .. 6 0 0
   Bushfelling and clearing virgin country .. 6 0 0
9. Sports and amusements. Class A .. .. 0 4 0
   ,, B .. .. 0 8 0
   ,, C .. .. 0 16 0
   ,, D .. .. 1 0 0
   ,, E .. .. 1 5 0
   ,, F .. .. 1 10 0
   ,, G .. .. 1 15 0
   ,, H .. .. 3 0 0
   ,, I .. .. 4 0 0
   ,, J .. .. 5 0 0
   ,, K .. .. 7 10 0

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under the Opium Act, 1908, and the Treaties of
Peace Act, 1919.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 18th day of
January, 1921.

Present :

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him
by the Opium Act, 1908, and by the Treaties of Peace
Act, 1919, and of all other powers and authorities enabling
him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion,
doth hereby revoke the regulations made under the Opium
Act, 1908, on the twenty-fourth day of July, one thousand
nine hundred and eleven, and gazetted on the twenty-seventh
day of the same month, and doth hereby make the following
regulations.

REGULATIONS.

1. In these regulations, if not inconsistent with the context,
   the term—

“Importer and exporter” means the holder of a permit
under these regulations to import and export opium,
morphine, heroine, cocaine or the salts thereof, or
preparations containing the same :

“Minister” means the Minister of Customs :

“The said Act” means the Opium Act, 1908, and its
amendments :

“Opium” includes raw opium, prepared opium, opium
in powder, solid extract of opium, solutions or
liquids containing opium, moist or semi-liquid pre-
parations containing opium, or opium in mixture
with other substances, provided that no preparation
containing 0·2 per cent. of morphine or less shall be
regarded as opium :

“Morphine” means the principal alkaloid of opium
having the chemical formula C₁₇H₁₉NO₃, and
salts and preparations containing the same ; pro-
vided that no salt or preparation containing 0·2 per
cent. of morphine or less shall be regarded as
morphine :

“Heroine” means diacetyl-morphine having the chemi-
cal formula C₂₁H₂₃NO₅, and salts and prepara-
tions containing the same ; provided that no salt or
preparation containing 0·1 per cent. of heroine or
less shall be regarded as heroine :

“Cocaine” means the principal alkaloid of the leaves of
Erythroxylon coca having the chemical formula C₁₇
H₂₁NO₄, and salts and preparations containing the
same ; provided that no salt or preparations con-
taining 0·1 per cent. of cocaine or less shall be
regarded as cocaine.

2. No person shall import into or export from New Zealand
   opium, morphine, heroine, or cocaine without a permit from
   the Minister of Customs.

3. Every applicant for a permit shall apply therefor in
   writing to the Minister, and shall forward his application to
   the Comptroller of Customs at Wellington.

4. On receipt of any such application the Minister shall, if
   satisfied as to the character of the applicant and as to his
   fitness to be the holder of a permit, issue to the applicant a
   permit in the form numbered 1 in the Schedule hereto.

5. Subject to the provisions of the said Act and its amend-
   ments and to these regulations, it shall be lawful for the
   holder of a permit to import or to export opium, morphine,
   heroine, and cocaine ; provided that in every case where
   exportation is to take place at least forty-eight hours’ notice
   shall be given to the Collector of Customs before any of the
   before-mentioned drugs are packed for export.

6. The Collector of Customs may provisionally veto the
   exportation of any opium, morphine, heroine, or cocaine
   wherever on any grounds he is not satisfied as to the purpose
   of such exportation or as to the ultimate destination thereof.
   Wherever such veto is exercised the circumstances shall be
   reported to the Minister for confirmation of the veto or other-
   wise.

7. In judging of the propriety of exercising any veto of
   exportation the Minister and the Collector shall take into
   consideration the terms of Article thirteen of the “Inter-
   national Opium Convention” signed at the Hague on 23rd
   January, 1912, which reads as follows :—

“The Contracting Powers shall use their best endeavours
to adopt, or cause to be adopted, measures to ensure that
morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts shall not be
exported from their countries, possessions, colonies, and
leased territories to the countries, possessions, colonies,
and leased territories of the other Contracting Powers
except when consigned to persons furnished with the
licenses or permits provided for by the laws or regu-
lations of the importing country.

“With this object each Government may communicate
from time to time to the Governments of the exporting
countries lists of the persons to whom licenses or permits
for the import of morphine, cocaine, and their respective
salts have been granted.”

8. For the purpose of the Opium Act, 1908, and its amend-
   ments, the following articles are declared to be opium in a
   form which though not suitable for smoking may yet be made
   suitable for smoking : Opium crude, opium in powder, solid
   extract of opium, opium in mixture with other substances
   (if such mixture may be made suitable for smoking), liquid
   extract of opium, tincture of opium, sedative liquor of opium,
   wine of opium, or moist or semi-liquid preparations containing
   opium, which are in a form which may be made suitable for
   smoking. The articles hereinbefore enumerated shall be in-
   cluded within the definition of “opium” for all the purposes
   of these regulations.

9. Every importer and exporter shall keep a book in the
   form numbered 2 in the Schedule hereto (hereinafter referred
   to as the O.M.H.C. Book), and shall enter or cause to be
   entered therein the particulars indicated in that form with
   respect to all opium, morphine, heroine, or cocaine imported
   or exported by him ; provided that where an importer and
   exporter sells, exports, or otherwise disposes of any article or
   goods imported or exported by him in pursuance of his permit
   for export or to a registered medical practitioner, a duly quali-
   fied veterinary surgeon, a registered chemist, a manufacturing
   chemist, a Hospital Board, or a dentist, the licensee or
   manager of a private hospital, or such other person as the
   Minister may approve, it shall not be necessary to obtain the
   signature of the purchaser or other person to whom those
   articles or goods are so sold or disposed of.

10. Before making any other entries in his O.M.H.C. Book,
    the importer and exporter shall enter therein the prescribed
    particulars (so far as applicable) as to all opium, morphine,
    heroine, or cocaine which he may have in his possession on
    the date of the issue of the permit.

11. On the 31st day of March and the 30th day of Septem-
    ber in each year the importer and exporter shall take stock,
    and shall balance his O.M.H.C. Book ; in the event of the
    amount of opium, morphine, heroine, or cocaine as shown by
    the book failing to correspond with the amount actually in
    stock, the importer and exporter shall enter in his book his
    explanation of the cause of the discrepancy, and shall sign the
    same.

12. The importer and exporter shall, at all reasonable
    times, on request so to do, produce for inspection all books
    kept by him under these regulations to the Collector or other
    officer of Customs, or to any constable, or to any other person
    appointed by the Minister in that behalf ; and shall permit
    any such person to examine and take stock of all opium,
    morphine, heroine, and cocaine in his possession ; and shall
    truly answer any questions put to him with reference to the
    entries in the said books or as to any opium, morphine, heroine.
    and cocaine imported or exported by him or in his possession.

13. The Collector or other officer of Customs may at any
    time demand samples of any goods in the possession of an
    importer and exporter, or in possession of any other person
    where he believes or suspects that such goods are held in