1950

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 58

thing to the contrary in any Act or in any rule of law, where
a local authority or public body has been authorized before
the passing of the said Act, or is thereafter authorized, to
borrow money, whether pursuant to a poll of ratepayers or
otherwise howsoever, whether the rate of interest or the term
of years of the loan was or was not specified or determined,
and such money or any part thereof has not been borrowed,
the local authority may, with the precedent consent of the
Minister of Finance, borrow such money, or such amount
thereof as has not been borrowed, at such rate of interest, or
for such term not less than ten years, as may be prescribed
by the Governor-General by Order in Council :
And whereas the Milton Borough Council has been autho-
rized to borrow the sum of one thousand pounds for liqui-
dating its antecedent liability :
And whereas the Minister of Finance has given his prece-
dent consent as required by the above-recited section eleven,
and it is desired that the rate of interest at which the said
loan of one thousand pounds may be borrowed be not exceed-
ing six per centum per annum :
Now, therefore, 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,
doeth hereby prescribe that the rate of interest that may be
paid by the Milton Borough Council in respect of the said
loan of one thousand pounds shall be a rate not exceeding
six per centum per annum, and the said Milton Borough
Council is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of one
thousand pounds accordingly.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Opium Regulations.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 31st day of
July, 1922.
Present :

HIS EXCELLENCE THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon
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, and the Treaties of Peace Act,
1919, on the eighteenth day of January, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-one, and gazetted on the twenty-seventh
day of the same month, and doth hereby make the following
regulations.

REGULATIONS.

1. THESE regulations may be cited as the Opium Regula-
   tions, and shall come into force on the day of the publication
   thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

2. In these regulations, if not inconsistent with the con-
   text,-
   "Minister" means the Minister of Customs;
   "Comptroller" means the Comptroller of Customs:
   "Importer" means the holder of a permit under these
   regulations to import opium, morphine, heroin,
   cocaine, codeine, or ecgonine:
   "Exporter" means the holder of a permit under these
   regulations to export opium, morphine, heroin,
   cocaine, codeine, or ecgonine:
   "The said Act" means the Opium Act, 1908, and its
   amendments:
   "Opium" includes the articles enumerated in No. 3 of
   these regulations, and also raw opium, solutions or
   liquids containing opium, moist or semi-liquid pre-
   parations containing opium, and opium in mixture
   with other substances; provided that no prepara-
   tion 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; provided
   that no salt or preparation containing 0.2 per cent.
   of morphine or less shall be regarded as morphine:
   "Heroin" means diacetyl-morphine having the chemical
   formula C₂₁H₂₃NO₅, and salts and preparations
   containing the same; provided that no salt or pre-
   paration containing 0.1 per cent. of heroin or less
   shall be regarded as heroin:
   "Cocaine" means the principal alkaloid of the leaves
   of Erythroxylon coca having the chemical formula C₁₇H₂₁NO₄, and salts and preparations containing
   the same; provided that no salt or preparation

containing 0.1 per cent. of cocaine or less shall be
regarded as cocaine:
"Codeine" means the alkaloid of opium having the
chemical formula C₁₈H₂₁NO₃, and salts and pre-
parations containing the same; provided that no
salt or preparation containing 0.2 per cent. of
codeine or less shall be regarded as codeine:
"Ecgonine" means the alkaloid of the leaves of
Erythroxylon coca having the chemical formula
C₉H₁₅NO₃, and salts and preparations containing
the same; provided that no salt or preparation
containing 0.1 per cent. of ecgonine or less shall be
regarded as ecgonine:
"Dangerous drugs" means opium, morphine, heroin,
cocaine, codeine, or ecgonine, as defined in this regu-
lation.

3. 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 sub-
   stances (if such mixture may be made suitable for smoking),
   liquid extract of opium, tincture of opium, sedative liquor of
   opium, wine of opium, and solutions or liquids containing
   opium, or moist or semi-liquid preparations containing opium,
   which are in a form which may be made suitable for smoking.

4. (1.) No person shall import into New Zealand opium,
   morphine, heroin, cocaine, codeine, or ecgonine without a
   permit from the Minister.
   (2.) Every person desiring to obtain a permit shall apply
   therefor in writing to the Minister, and shall forward his
   application through the Comptroller of Customs, Wellington.
   (3.) On receipt of any such application the Minister, if
   satisfied as to the character of the applicant and as to his
   fitness to be a holder of a permit, shall issue to the applicant
   a permit in the form numbered 1 in the Schedule hereto.
   (4.) Every permit to import and to export opium, mor-
   phine, heroin, and cocaine issued and in force under the
   regulations hereby repealed shall, until cancelled by the
   Minister, enure under these regulations as a permit to im-
   port opium, morphine, heroin, cocaine, codeine, and ecgonine.

5. (1.) Every importer desiring to import any dangerous
   drugs (i.e., opium, morphine, heroin, cocaine, codeine, or
   ecgonine) shall, before ordering the same, make application
   to the Comptroller of Customs in the form numbered 2 in
   the Schedule hereto for a certificate of approval in the form
   numbered 3 in the same Schedule, and shall satisfy him that
   the importation of the said drugs is lawful under the said
   Act and these regulations, and that the said drugs are required
   and, if imported, will be used for legitimate purposes, and
   that any medicinal opium or any morphine, heroin, cocaine,
   codeine, or ecgonine included in such application is required
   and, if imported, will be used solely for medicinal or scientific
   purposes.
   (2.) If any statement made by an importer in any such
   application is false in any material particular, that importer
   shall be deemed to have committed a breach of this regu-
   lation.
   (3.) On receipt of any such application the Comptroller
   shall issue a certificate in the form numbered 3 in the Sche-
   dule hereto, provided he is satisfied that the importation of
   the dangerous drugs mentioned therein is lawful under the
   said Act and these regulations, and that the said drugs are
   required and, if imported, will be used for legitimate purposes,
   and that any medicinal opium, or any morphine, heroin,
   cocaine, codeine, or ecgonine, included in such application is
   required and, if imported, will be used solely for medicinal
   or scientific purposes.

EXPORTATION.

6. (1.) No person shall export dangerous drugs from New
   Zealand without a permit in form numbered 4 in the Sche-
   dule hereto from the Comptroller.
   (2.) Such permit may be granted subject to such conditions
   or restrictions as the Comptroller may in any case prescribe,
   and shall be issued only on production of a certificate from
   the Government of the country to which any such dangerous
   drug is to be exported that the importation into that country
   of the consignment in question is approved by that Govern-
   ment and is required for legitimate purposes, and, in the
   case of medicinal opium, and of morphine, heroin, cocaine,
   codeine, or ecgonine, that such drugs are required solely for
   medicinal or scientific purposes.
   (3.) The production of the last-mentioned certificate may,
   at the discretion of the Comptroller, and under conditions
   prescribed by him, be dispensed with in any special case and
   in cases where dangerous drugs are to be exported to a
   country the laws of which do not provide for the issue of
   such a certificate.
   (4.) Nothing in this regulation shall apply to any dangerous
   drugs supplied by permission of the Collector of Customs to
   the master of any ship trading overseas, in such quantities
   only as are required for use as medical stores for such ship.