Opium smoking assembly

An Assembly of two or more persons is designated an opium smoking assembly is to smoke opium or to prepare opium for smoking purposes: Provided that a man and his wife shall not be deemed to be an opium smoking assembly within the meaning of this section even if their common object be to smoke opium or to prepare opium for smoking purposes. Explanation- An assembly which was not an opium smoking assembly when it assembled may subsequently become such an assembly.