Act No. 3006, March 08, 1922

[ Act No. 3006, March 08, 1922 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION SEVEN OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-ONE, ENTITLED "AN ACT RESTRICTING THE USE OF OPIUM AND REPEALING ACT NUMBERED SEVENTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ONE

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

SECTION 1. Section seven of Act Numbered Twenty-three hundred and eighty-one, entitled "An Act restricting the use of opium and repealing Act Numbered Seventeen hundred and sixty-one," is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"SEC. 7. When unlawfully used, or found on, about, or and in the possession of any person not authorized to have control and disposition of the same, or when found secreted or abandoned, all prohibited drugs and all instruments, apparatus, and articles especially assigned for their use, shall be forfeited to the Government and shall be at once seized.

"Articles so seized shall be turned over to the Chief of Constabulary, to be dealt with by him according to law."

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, March 8, 1922.