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Section 2: In this Ordinance unless the context otherwise requires-

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" raw opium" means the spontaneously coagulated juice obtained from the capsules of the papaver somniferum L., which has only been submitted to the necessary manipulations for packing and transport, whatever its content of morphine; " prepared opium " means opium prepared for smoking and includes dross and any other residues remaining after opium has been smoked; "medicinal opium" means raw opium which has undergone the processes necessary to adapt it for medicinal use in accordance with the requirements of the British Pharmacopmia, whether it is in the form of powder or is granulated or is in any other form and whether it is or is not mixed with neutral materials; " morphine " means the principal alkaloid of opium having the chemical formula C17 H 19 N0 3 ; " diacetylmorphine " means diacetylmorphine, (diamorphine, heroin) having the formula C21 H 23 N0 5 ; " coca leaf " means the leaf of the erythroxylon coca lamarck and the erythroxylon novo-granatense (Morris) hieronymus and their varieties, belonging to the family of erythroxylacem and the leaf of other species of this genus from which it may be found possible to extract cocaine either directly or by chemical transformation; " crude cocaine " means any extract of the coca leaf which can be used directly or indirectly for the manufacture of cocame; Interpretation. 1620 Cap. 154] Dangerous Drugs "cocaine" means methyl-benzoyl lrevo-ecgonine [a] D 20° = - 16° 4 in 20 per cent. solution of chloroform, of which the formula is C17 H 21 N0 4 ; " ecgonine" means lrevo-ecgonine [a] D 20° = - 45° 6 (in 5 per cent. solution of water), of which the formula is C9 H 15 N0 3 H 2 0 1 and all the derivatives of lrevo-ecgonine which might serve industrially for its recovery; " Indian hemp " means the dried flowering or fruiting tops of the pistillate plant known as cannabis sativa from which the resin has not been extracted, by whatever name such tops are called; " Colony " includes the Protectorate; " rules " mean rules made under this Ordinance by the Governor in Council; "prescribed" means prescribed by rules; "approved ports" means ports approved by rules for the importation or exportation, as the case may be, of raw opium and coca leaves. PART II.-RAw OPIUM AND CocA LEAVEs. Restrictionon 3. It shall not be lawful for any person to import or bring into importation the Colony any raw opium except under licence and intoof raw opium. approved ports. Restrictionon 4. (I) It shall not be lawful for any person to export from the ~~~~~~~f~m. Colony any raw opium except under licence and from approved ports. (2) If at any time the importation of raw opium into a foreign country is prohibited or restricted by the laws of that country, there shall, while that prohibition or restriction is in force, be attached to every licence which is issued by the Governor under this Ordinance authorising the export of raw opium from the Colony, such conditions as appear to him necessary for preventing or restricting, as the case may be, the exportation of raw opium from the Colony to that country during such time as the importation of raw opium into that country is so prohibited or restricted, and any such licences issued before the prohibition or restriction came into force shall, if the Governor by Order so directs, be deemed to be subject to the like conditions. ·

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