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of international control (such as those relating to import and export). There is little doubt that most if not all of the preparations in Schedule II of the Regula- tions made under Section 7 of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1920
will be accepted by the Health Committee of the League of
Nations as not giving rise to the drug habit and that
subsequently by virtue of Article 8, the provisions of the
Convention of 1925 will cease to apply to them. Until
this event there fore, any exemption of these preparations
under the Straits Pettlements Ordinance should accordingly
be limited to exemption for purposes corresponding to
those for which exemption is allowed in the regulations
under the Imperial Acts. Then Article 8 of the Conventio
of 192 is applied to the se preparations they can be
axempted totally from the provisions of the Ordinance under
the new Section to which reference is made in the second
part of paragraph (j) below. I am informed that, in this country, it is not considered necessary to state specifically in the statutory Regulations bhat the exemp- tion of the preparations themselves does not carry with
it the exemption of mixtures containing the drugs. If however, it is considered desirable, in the Colony, (as may well be the case) that this should be rande clear, it would appear to be sufficient to do so in the Rule by virtue of which the preparations ere exempted from certah
of the provisions of the Ordinance.
In this conrection I have to inform you that in
this country a mixture of an exempted preparation and an
"inert substance" is equally exempted, but a mixture of
an exempted preparation and an "active" substance is not
exempted. This practice is based on the principle that
an active substance may alter the nature of the exempted
preparation so as to render it no longer incapable of
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