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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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