CAP. III.

An Act to amend Chapter 108 of the Consolidated Statutes, entitled "Of the Protection of Animals."

Passed June 6th, 1922.

SECTION

SECTION

1-Amendment of section one.

2-Respecting ship's hatches; carriage

of animals on deck.

BE it enacted by the Governor, the Legislative Council Enacting clause. and House of Assembly, in Legislative Session con

vened, as follows:

sec. one.

1. Section one of Chapter 108 of the Consolidated Amendment of Statutes, entitled "Of the Protection of Animals" is hereby amended by re-lettering clause (g) of sub-section (1) thereof as clause (h) and by inserting the following as clause (g):

"(g) Shall use or drive any draught animal in any cart
of more wheels than two, or in any sleigh, slide,
catamaran or other vehicle on runners, without
having and using a whiffle-tree so installed as best
to relieve the hauling strain and friction on the
animal; or"

2. Sections twenty-one, twenty-two and twenty-three of Respecting ship's hatches; carriage of the said Chapter are hereby renumbered sections twenty- animals on deck. three, twenty-four and twenty-five respectively; and the following are added as sections twenty-one and twenty

two:

"21. The fore and aft diameter of every ship's hatch
used in taking on board or discharging cattle at any
place in this Colony shall be not less than nine
feet inside the coamings, and the width of such
hatch shall not be less than seven feet. If any horse,
bull or cow shall be taken on board or discharged
from any ship in this Colony through any hatch
which shall be of less diameter or width than
aforesaid, the shipowner and the ship master shall
severally be liable to the penalty of fifty dollars

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Enacting clause.

in respect of every such animal so taken on board or discharged. This section shall only apply to ships carrying not less than ten head of horses or cattle at any time."

"22. No animal shall at any time between the last day of October and the first day of May inclusive be carried by sea into or out of this Colony on the upper deck of any ship or vessel or in any open boat otherwise than in a sufficient box or space completely enclosed and tight against wind and water. If any animal be carried contrary to this section, the owner or person having custody or control of such animal, and the master or person having command or control of the ship vessel or boat, shall severally be liable to the penalty of fifty dollars in respect of every animal so carried."

CAP. IV.

An Act to regulate the Importation, Exportation, Manufacture,
Sale and Use of Opium and other Dangerous Drugs.

BE

E it enacted by the Governor, the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Legislative Session con

Part I.

RAW OPIUM.

opium to be

1. It shall not be lawful for any person to import or bring Importation of raw into this Colony any raw opium except under license and licensed. into approved ports.

opium; power to

2. (1) It shall not be lawful for any person to export from Exportation of raw this Colony any raw opium except under license and from make conditions. approved ports and except in packages marked in the prescribed manner with an indication of the contents thereof.

(2) If at any time the importation of raw opium into a foreign country is prohibited or restricted by the laws of that country, there shall, while that prohibition or restriction is in force, be attached to every license which is issued by the Minister of Finance and Customs under this Act, authorizing the export of raw opium from this Colony, such conditions as appear to him necessary for preventing or restricting, as the case may be, the exportation of raw opium from this Colony to that country during such time as the importation of raw opium into that country is so prohibited or restricted, and any such licenses issued before the prohibition or restriction came into force shall, if the Minister of Finance and Customs by order so directs, be deemed to be subject to the like conditions.

3. The Governor in Council may make regulations, which Regulations re production, sale, shall be published in the Royal Gazette, for controlling or etc. of raw opium. restricting the production, possession, sale and distribution of raw opium, and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, for prohibiting the production, possession, sale or distribution of raw opium except by persons licensed or otherwise authorised in that behalf.

Part II.

PREPARED OPIUM.

4. It shall not be lawful for any person to import or bring into or to export from this Colony any prepared opium.

Importation and exportation of prepared opium prohibited.

Offences respecting prepared opium.

Other drugs.

Power to make regulations.

5. If any person—

(a) manufactures, sells, or otherwise deals in prepared opium; or

(b) has in his possession any prepared opium; or

(c) being the occupier of any premises permits those premises to be used for the purpose of the preparation of opium for smoking or the sale or smoking of prepared opium; or

(d) is concerned in the management of any premises used for any such purpose as aforesaid; or

(e) has in his posession any pipes or other utensils for use in connection with the smoking of opium or any utensils used in connection with the preparation of opium for smoking; or

(f) smokes or otherwise uses prepared opium, or frequents any place used for the purpose of opium smoking;

he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.

Part III.

COCAINE, MORPHINE, ETC.

6. It shall not be lawful to import or bring into, or to export from, this Colony any drug to which this Part of this Act applies except under license.

7. For the purpose of preventing the improper use of the drugs to which this Part of this Act applies, the Governor in Council may make regulations for controlling the manufacture, sale, possession and distribution of those drugs, and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, for

(a) prohibiting the manufacture of any drug to which this Part of this Act applies except on premises licensed for the purpose and subject to any conditions spec

(b) prohibiting the manufacture, sale or distribution of
any such drug except by persons licensed or other-
wise authorized under the regulations and subject
to any conditions specified in the license or au-
thority; and

(c) regulating the issue by medical practitioners of pre-
scriptions containing any such drug and the dis-
pensing of any such prescriptions; and

(d) requiring persons engaged in the manufacture, sale
or distribution of any such drug to keep such books
and furnish such information either in writing or
otherwise as may be prescribed.

applies.

8. (1) The drugs to which this Part of this Act applies are Drugs to which Act 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 the Governor in Council 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, the Governor in Council may 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.