Section Text
Adaptation of Indian Laws) Order, 1937. Previous Sec. 7 was as under :- "7. Warehousing opium.-The Governor General in Council may, by order notified in the Gazette of India.
(a) authorize any Local Government to establish warehouses for opium legally imported into, or intended to be exported from, the territories administered by such Local Government, and (b) cancel any such order. So long as such order remains in force, the Local Government may. by notification published in the Official Gazette.
(c) declare any place to be a warehouse for all or any opium legally imported, whether before or after the payment of any duty leviable thereon, into the territories administered by such Government, or into any specified part thereof, or intended to be exported thence, and (d) cancel any such declaration. An order under clause (b) shall cancel all previous declarations under clause (c) of this section relating to places in the territories to which such order refers. So long as such declaration remains in force, the owner of all such opium shall be bound to deposit it in such warehouse."The 2 Word subs. for the word "Provincial" by the Adaptation of Laws Order, 1950.[State] Government may, by notification published in the Official Gazette, declare any place to be a warehouse for all or any opium legally imported, whether before or after the payment of any duty leviable thereon, into the territories administered by that Government, or into any specified part thereof, and intended to be exported thence. So long as the declaration remains in force, the owner of all such opium shall be bound to deposit it in that warehouse.