1988 Ed.]
Dangerous Drugs
[CAP. 134
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CHAPTER 134
DANGEROUS DRUGS
To amend and consolidate the law relating to dangerous drugs.
[17 January 1969] L.N.6/69
Originally 41 of 1968 – 31 of 1969, 5 of 1971, 46 of 1971, 13 of 1973, 43 of 1974, L.N. 22/77, L.N. 82/77, 60 of 1977, L.N. 321/77, 46 of 1978, 67 of 1979, L.N. 300/79, 37 of 1980, L.N. 324/80, L.N. 166/81, 65 of 1981, L.N. 30/82, 40 of 1982, 48 of 1982, L.N. 345/82, L.N. 185/83, 7 of 1984, L.N. 141/84, L.N. 173/84, L.N. 81/85, 40 of 1985, L.N. 176/86, 24 of 1987, 62 of 1987, L.N. 76 of 1989, L.N. 28 of 1990, L.N.287/90
PART I
SHORT TITLE AND INTERPRETATION
Short title
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance.
Interpretation
2. (1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-- "approved" means approved by the Director for the purposes of this Ordinance; "authorized seller of poisons" means an authorized seller of poisons within the meaning of the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance (Cap. 138);
"cannabis" means any plant, or any part of any plant, of the genus cannabis which contains tetrahydro-cannabinol and the viable seeds of any plant of the genus cannabis; (Replaced, 46 of 1978, s. 2)
"charge" means a complaint, information, charge or indictment;
"Chief Pharmacist" means the person so appointed by the Governor and such other person as the Director may appoint in writing to carry out the duties of the Chief Pharmacist under this Ordinance;
"coca leaves" means the leaves of any plant of the genus of the erythroxylaceae from which cocaine can be extracted, either directly or by chemical transformation;
"Conventions" means the International Opium Convention signed at The Hague on 23 January 1912, the similar Convention signed at Geneva on 19 February 1925, the International Convention for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs signed at Geneva on 13 July 1931, the Protocol on Narcotic Drugs signed at Lake Success, New York, on 11 December 1946, the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs signed at New York on 30 March 1961, and any convention or final protocol amending, supplementing or in substitution for the same; "corresponding law" means a law stated in a certificate purporting to be issued by or on behalf of the government of any country outside Hong Kong to be a law providing for the control and regulation in that place of the manufacture, sale, use, export or import of dangerous drugs in accordance with the Conventions;