A, D. 1920.
Drugs to
which Part 111, applies.
Application of Customs Acts.
c. 36.
[Cn. 46.]
Dangerous Drugs Act, 1920. [10 & 11 GRO, 5.]
(3) Nothing in any regulations made under this section shall be taken to authorise the sale, or the keeping of an open shop for the retailing, dispensing, or compounding of, poisons by any person who is not qualified in that behalf under, or other- wise than in accordance with, the provisions of the Pharmacy Act, 1868, as amended by the Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908. or to be in derogation of the provisions of the Pharmacy Act, 1868, as so amended, for prohibiting, restricting, or regulating the sale of poisons.
8.-(1) The drugs to which this Part of this Act applies are morphine, cocaine, ecgonine, and diamorphine (commonly known as heroin), and their respective salts, and medicinal opium, and any preparation, admixture, extract, or other substance containing not less than one-fifth per cent. of morphine or one-tenth per cent. of cocaine, ecgonine or diamorphine.
For the purpose of the foregoing provision, the percentage in the case of morphine shall be calculated as in respect of anhydrous morphine.
(2) If it appears to His Majesty that any new 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, of ill effects substantially of the same character or nature as or analogous to those produced by morphine or cocaine, His Majesty may by Order in Council declare that this Part of this Act shall apply to that new derivative or alkaloid or other drug in the same manner as it applies to the drugs mentioned in sub- section (1) of this section.
PART IV.
GENERAL-
9.-(1) Articles prohibited to be imported by virtue of this Act shall be deemed to be included among the goods enumerated and described in the table of prohibitions and
39 & 40 Vict. restrictions inwards contained in section forty-two of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, and the provisions of this Act relating to the prohibition of the export of articles shall have effect as though they were included in that Act, and the provisions of that Act and of any Act amending or extending that Act shall apply accordingly.
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[10 & 11 GEO. 5.] Dangerous Drugs Act, 1920.
[CH. 46.]
(2) If any goods prohibited to be exported by virtue of A.D. 1920. this Act are exported from the United Kingdom in contravention thereof, or brought to a quay or other place to be shipped for the purpose of being so exported or of being waterborne to be so exported, the exporter or his agent shall be liable to the same penalty as that to which a person is liable under section one hundred and eighty-six of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, for illegally importing prohibited goods.
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10. (1) Any constable or other person authorised in that Powers of behalf by any general or special order of a Secretary of State inspection. shall, for the purposes of the execution of this Act, have power to enter the premises of any person carrying on the business of a producer, manufacturer, seller or distributor of any drugs to which this Act applies, and to demand the production of and to inspect any books relating to dealings in any such drugs and to inspect any stocks of any such drugs.
(2) If any person wilfully delays or obstructs any person in the exercise of his powers under this section or fails to produce or conceals or attempts to conceal any such books or stocks as aforesaid, he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.
before Par-
11. Every regulation made under this Act shall be laid Regulations before each House of Parliament forthwith, and, if an address is to be laid presented to His Majesty within twenty-one days on which that lament. House has sat next after any such regulation is laid before it praying that the regulation may be annulled, His Majesty in Council may annul the regulation and it shall thenceforth be void but without prejudice to the validity of anything pre- viously done thereunder.
12. Licences or authorities for the purposes of this Act Licences. may be issued or granted by a Secretary of State and may be issued or granted on such terms and subject to such conditions (including in the case of a licence the payment of a fee) as the Secretary of State thinks proper.
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13.-(1) If any person acts in contravention of or fails to Offences unl comply with any regulation made under this Act, or acts in penaltics. contravention of or fails to comply with the conditions of any licence issued or authority granted under or in pursuance of this Act, he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.
(2) Any person guilty of an offence against this Act shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred pounds or to imprisonment with without hard
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