Preamble

Orissa Act 16 Of 1947 *THE ORISSA OPIUM SMOKING ACT, 1947 [Received the assent of the Governor on the 13th May 1947, first published in an extraordinary issue of the Orissa Gazette, dated the 23rd MAy 1947.]

AN ACT T O PROVIDE FOR THE CONTROL OF THE PRACTICE OF

OPIUM SMOKING AND TO SECURE THE ULTIMATE PROHIBITION OF OPIUM SMOKING WHEREAS it is expedient to control the practice of opium smoking, to prevent the assembling of person for the purpose of such practice and to secure the ultimate prohibition of opium smoking :- It is hereby enacted as follows:—