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(h) "Export", with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions in relation to the Colony, means to take or cause to be taken out of the Colony by land, air or water, otherwise than in transit.
(i) "Import", with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions in relation to the Colony, means to bring or cause to be brought into the Colony by land, air or water, otherwise than in transit.
() "Convention" includes any one Or more of the Conventions specified in sub-section (2) of this section.
(k) "Person", except so far as relates to the imposition of the penalty of imprisonment, includes a body corporate and a firm.
() "Ship" includes every description of vessel used in navigation or for the carriage or storage of goods.
(m) Superintendent" means the Superintendent of Imports and Exports and includes any Assistant Super- intendent.
(n) "Coca leaves" means the leaves of any plant of 15 & 16 Geo. the genus of the erythroxylaceae from which cocaine can be 5, c. 74, extracted either directly or by chemical transformation.
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(o) "Indian hemp" means the dried flowering or fruiting 15 & 16 Geo. tops of the pistillate plant known as cannabis sativa from 5, c. 74, which the resin has not been extracted, by whatever name such tops are called.
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s. 4.
(p) "Medicinal opium" means raw opium which has 15 & 16 Geo. undergone the processes necessary to adapt it for medicinal 5, c. 74, use in accordance with the requirements of the British Pharmacopoeia, 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 substances.
(2) "Corresponding law" in this Ordinance means any law stated in a certificate purporting to be issued by or on behalf of the Government of any place outside the Colony to be a law providing for the control and regulation in that place of the manufacture, sale, use, export and import of drugs in accordance with the provisions of the International Opium Convention signed at the Hague on the 23rd day of January, 1912, or of the International Opium Convention signed at Geneva on the 19th day of February, 1925, or of the Convention signed at Geneva on behalf of His Majesty on the 13th day of July, 1931, and any statement in any such certificate as to the effect of the law mentioned in the certificate, or any statement in any such certificate that any facts constitute an offence against that law, shall be conclusive. Any such certificate shall be admitted in evidence upon production by or on behalf of the Superintendent in any proceeding.
3.-(1) The drugs to which this Ordinance applies are : (a) medicinal opium;
(b) any extract or tincture of Indian hemp;
13 & 14 Geo.
5. c. 5,s. 6; 22 Geo. 5,
c. 15, s. 3.
Drugs to which this Ordinance applies.
10 & 11 Geo.
5. c. 46, s. 8;
c. 15, s. 1.
(c) morphine and its salts, and diacetylmorphine (com- 22 Geo. 5, monly known as diamorphine or heroin) and the other esters of morphine and their respective salts;
(d) cocaine (including synthetic cocaine) and ecgonine and their respective salts, and the esters of ecgonine and their respective salts;