Section 14, The Dangerous Drugs Short title

(I) It shall not be lawful for any person in the Colony totrade in or manufacture for the purpose of trade any products obtained from any of the phenanthrene alkaloids of opium or from the ecgonine alkaloids of the coca leaf, not being a product which was on the thirteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, being used for medical or scientific purposes: *Now in the purview of the United Nations. Provided that if the Governor in Council is at any time satisfied as respects any such product that it is of medical or scientific value, the Governor in Council may by Order direct that this sub-section shall cease to apply to that product. If any person acts in contravention of this sub-section, he shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance. (2} If it is made to appear to the Governor in Council that a decision with respect to any such product as is mentioned in sub-section (1} of this section has in pursuance of Article II of the International Convention signed at Geneva on the thirteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty -one been communicated by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations to the parties * to the said Convention, the Governor in Council may by Order, as the case requires, either declare that the provisions of this Part of this. Ordinance shall apply to the product in the same manner as they apply to the drugs mentioned in section13 (1} of this Ordinance or apply this Part of this Ordinance to that product with such modifications as may be specified in the Order. (3} The Governor in Council may by Order apply this Part of this Ordinance, with such modifications as may be specified in the Order to any of the following drugs, that is to say, methylmorphine (commonly known as codeine), ethylmorphine (commonly known as dionin) and their respective salts. PART VI.-DANGEROUS DRUGS IN TRANSIT.