Trafficking
in dangerous
drug
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Dangerous
drug not to be supplied except to person authorized or licensed to be in possession thereof.
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PART II
CONTROL OF IMPORT, EXPORT, PROCURING, SUPPLY,
DEALING IN OR WITH. MANUFACTURE AND
POSSESSION OF DANGEROUS DRUGS.
(1) Save under and in accordance with this Ordinance or a licence granted by the Director hereunder, no person shall, on his own behalf or on behalf of any other person, whether or not such other person is in Hong Kong-
(a) traffic in a dangerous drug:
(b) offer to traffic in a dangerous drug; or
(c) do or offer to do an act preparatory to or for the purpose
of trafficking in a dangerous drug.
(2) Subsection (1) shall apply whether or not the dangerous drug is in Hong Kong or is to be imported into Hong Kong or is ascertained, appropriated or in existence.
(3) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable-
(a) on conviction on indictment, to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars and to imprisonment for life; and
(6) on summary conviction, to a fine of fifty thousand dollars
and to imprisonment for three years.
(4) This section does not apply to the import or export of a preparation specified in Part II of the First Schedule or of a dangerous drug which is in trausit.
5. (1) No person shall supply or procure, or offer to supply or procure, a dangerous drug to or for any person in Hong Kong unless-
(a) the latter person is authorized by or licensed under this Ordinance to be in possession of that dangerous drug:
(b) the dangerous drug is to be supplied or procured in
accordance with this Ordinance; and
(c) in the case of a person licensed under this Ordinance to be in possession of the dangerous drug, the dangerous drug is to be supplied or procured in accordance with the conditions of his licence.
(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable-
(a) on conviction on indictment, to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars and to imprisonment for fifteen years; and
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(6) on summary conviction, to a fine of ten thousand dollars
and to imprisonment for three years.
(3) For the purposes of this section, the administration of a dangerous drug-
(a) by or under the direct personal supervision of, and in
the presence of, a registered medical practitioner;
(b) by or under the direct personal supervision of, and in the presence of, a registered dentist in the course of dental treatment; or
(c) by a sister for the time being in charge of a ward, theatre or other department in a prescribed hospital or in a health centre or clinic maintained by the Crown acting on the instructions of a registered medical practitioner, to a patient of that ward, theatre, department, health centre or clinic.
shall be deemed not to be the supplying of the dangerous drug.
6. (1) Save under and in accordance with this Ordinance or under and in accordance with a licence granted by the Director thereunder and on the premises specified in such licence, no person shall manufacture a dangerous drug.
(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction on indictment to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars and to imprisonment for life.
7. (1) No person shall have a dangerous drug in his possession for the purpose of unlawful trafficking therein, whether by him or some other person.
(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable-
(a) on conviction on indictment, to a fine of one hundred
thousand dollars and to imprisonment for life: and
(b) on summary conviction, to a fine of fifty thousand dollars
and to imprisonment for three years.
8. (1) Save under and in accordance with this Ordinance
or a licence granted by the Director thereunder, no person shall-
(a) have in his possession; or
(6) smoke, inhale, ingest or inject.
a dangerous drug.
Manufacture of dangerous drug.
Possession of dangerous drug
for purpose of unlawful trafficking therein.
Possession of dangerous drug otherwise than for trafficking, and consump- tion of dangerous drug.