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[s. 2 cont.]
24 of 1950, Schedule.
First Schedule.
24 of 1950, Schedule.
Dangerous Drugs.
(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 Conventions, 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 Director in any proceeding.
3.
(1) For the purposes of the First Schedule— (a) the expression "ecgonine" means laevo-ecgonine and includes any derivatives of ecgonine from which it may be recovered industrially, and the percentage in the case of morphine shall be calculated as in respect of anhydrous morphine; (b) percentages in the case of liquid preparations shall, unless other provision in that behalf is made by regulations under this Ordinance, be calculated on the basis that a preparation containing one per cent of any substance means a preparation in which one gramme of the substance, if a solid, or one millilitre of the substance, if a liquid, is contained in every one hundred millilitres of the preparation, and so in proportion for any greater or less percentage.
(2) The provisions of this Ordinance so far as they relate to the manufacture, import, export and wholesale trade in dangerous drugs, shall apply to methylmorphine (commonly known as codeine), ethylmorphine (commonly known as dionin) and their respective salts: Provided that nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to control the retail trade in the said drugs or to interfere with medical preparations containing them or with the use of these drugs for medical purposes.
(3) If it appears to the Governor in Council that any other derivative of morphine or cocaine or of any salts of morphine or cocaine or any other alkaloid of opium or any other drug of whatever kind is, or is likely to be, productive, if improperly used, or is capable of being converted into a
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