Dangerous Drugs.
[CAP. 134
"in transit" means taken or sent from any country and [s. 2 cont.]
brought into the Colony by land, air or water (whether
or not landed or transhipped in the Colony) for the
sole purpose of being carried to another country either by the same or another conveyance;
"Indian hemp" means the dried flowering or fruiting tops 15 & 16 Geo.
of the pistillate plant known as cannabis sativa from which the resin has not been extracted, by whatever name such tops are called;
5, c. 74, s. 1.
5, c. 74, s. 4.
"medicinal opium" means raw opium which has undergone 15 & 16 Geo.
the processes necessary to adapt it for medicinal 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;
"opium" includes raw opium, prepared opium, and opium 2 of 1946,
dross, and every substance (other than medicinal opium), in which raw opium, prepared opium or opium dross forms an ingredient;
"opium divan" means any place opened, kept or used-
(a) for the sale of prepared opium to be smoked in such
place; or
(b) for the smoking of prepared opium where a fee or its equivalent is charged for such smoking or where any benefit or advantage whatever, direct or indirect, is derived by the keeper of such place in consequence of the smoking of prepared opium in such place;
First Schedule.
2 of 1946, First Schedule.
"opium dross" means the residuum produced by smoking 2 of 1946,
prepared opium;
First Schedule.
First Schedule.
"prepared opium" includes every preparation of opium, and 2 of 1946,
every substance in which opium forms an ingredient, which preparation or substance is used or intended to be used, or is capable of being used for smoking, or for use as a substitute for smoking opium;
First Schedule.
"raw opium" means any kind of opium not prepared for 2 of 1946,
smoking, chewing, swallowing or injecting and includes the leaves or wrappings in which raw opium has been wrapped, but does not include opium dross;
"ship" includes every description of vessel used in navigation or for the carriage or storage of goods;
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