2086

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 49

(2) Every person who has in his possession any prepared opium is guilty of an
offence against this Order, and shall be liable to a fine of £200 or to imprisonment for
twelve months, or to both such fine and imprisonment.

(3) No person, being the occupier of premises, shall permit those premises to be
used for the preparation of opium for smoking or for the storage, concealment, or sale
of prepared opium or for the smoking of opium.

(4) Every such occupier and every person who is concerned in the management of
any premises used for any of the purposes mentioned in the last preceding subclause is
guilty of an offence against this Order, and shall be liable to a fine of £200 or to imprisonment for twelve months, or to both such fine and imprisonment.

(5) Every person who has in his possession any pipes or other utensils for use in
connection with the smoking of opium, or any utensils for use in connection with the
preparation of opium for smoking, is guilty of an offence against this Order, and shall
be liable to a fine of £100 or to imprisonment for six months, or to both such fine and
imprisonment.

(6) Every person who smokes or otherwise uses prepared opium, or is found without lawful excuse on any premises being used for the smoking of opium, is guilty of an
offence against this Order, and shall be liable to a fine of £50 or to imprisonment for
three months.

8. (1) No person shall produce, manufacture, sell, distribute, or otherwise deal in
   any dangerous drug (other than prepared opium) except pursuant to a license granted
   by the Administrator.

(2) Licenses granted under this clause shall be in such form and shall be granted
on such terms and subject to such conditions (which shall include the payment of a
license fee of £3) as the Administrator shall think fit.

PART III.

ADMINISTRATIVE.

9. Unless revoked under the provisions of clause 12 hereof, every license issued
   under Part II of this Order shall continue in force until the 31st day of March following
   the date of issue, save that any license granted during the months of February and
   March in any year shall continue in force until the 31st day of March in the next ensuing year.

10. Every registered chemist and every practitioner shall, without the necessity of
    making application for a license and without the actual issue of a license under these
    regulations (but subject to the provisions of clause 12 hereof), be deemed to be licensed
    and to be the holder of a license to produce, manufacture, sell, distribute, or otherwise
    deal in all dangerous drugs for the purposes of their respective businesses or professions,
    but not otherwise.

11. No license granted under this Order nor the rights conferred thereby nor any
    of them shall be exercisable by any person other than the licensee, or be assigned,
    charged, alienated to or in favour of, or be capable of devolving upon any person,
    whether by act of parties or by operation of law.

12. The Administrator may at any time revoke any license issued under this Order,
    and may at any time revoke the rights of a registered chemist or of a practitioner under
    clause 10 hereof if he is satisfied that such revocation is necessary for the peace, order,
    or good government of Samoa, and may from time to time annul any such revocation.

13. (1) Every licensee shall keep a register in the forms A and B in the Third
    Schedule hereto, and shall enter therein with respect to all dangerous drugs acquired,
    produced, manufactured, sold, distributed, or otherwise dealt in by him, the respective
    particulars indicated by those forms.

(2) Every licensee shall make the appropriate entries in the Licensee's Register on
the day on which any respective drug was by him acquired, produced, manufactured,
sold, distributed, or otherwise dealt with, as the case may require.

(3) A licensee shall not make or cause or permit to be made in the Licensee's
Register any entry which is untrue in any particular, unless the same is corrected forth-
with as hereinafter provided, or obliterate or cancel or alter, or cause or permit to be
obliterated or cancelled or altered, any entry made in the Licensee's Register.

(4) Any mistake in an entry may be corrected by a marginal note or footnote
giving the correct particulars and containing as a part of such note the date on which
such note was written.

14. Every licensee shall, within fourteen days after the close of each half-yearly
    period ending on the 31st day of March and the 30th day of September in every year,
    prepare and record stock-sheets of all dangerous drugs in his possession at the close of
    such half-yearly period, and a quantity stock account covering the half-yearly period
    since the previous stocktaking, and enter thereon a proper explanation of any deficiency
    shown in such stock account.

15. Every licensee shall keep the records required by this Order in some place of
    security at the premises at which he carries on business, and shall so keep every record
    for a period of one year following the date of the last entry made therein, save that if
    he shall cease to hold a license under this Order he shall deliver such records to the
    Inspector of Police at Apia for custody and destruction after the expiration of the said
    period of one year.

16. Every licensee shall at all times permit any officer of Police or Customs or any
    person authorized by the Administrator to inspect the records referred to in this Order
    or any of them, and to make copies of any entries appearing therein.