CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915 — Page 443

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Article 9.

The Contracting Powers shall enact pharmacy laws and regulations in such a way as to limit the manufacture, the sale and the use of morphine, cocaine and their respective salts to medical and legitimate uses only, unless existing laws or regulations have already regulated the matter. They shall cooperate amongst themselves in order to prevent the use of these drugs for any other purpose.

Article 10.

The Contracting Powers shall use their best efforts to control, or to cause to be controlled all those who manufacture, import, sell, distribute and export morphine, cocaine and their respective salts, as well as the buildings where such persons exercise that industry or that commerce.

To this end, the Contracting Powers shall use their best efforts to adopt or to cause to be adopted the following measures, unless exist. ing measures have already regulated the matter:

a. to limit the manufacture of morphine, cocaine and their resper- tive salts to the premises and localities alone which shall have been authorized to this effect or to keep themselves informed as to the establishments and places where such drugs are manufactured, and to keep a register thereof;

b. to demand that all those who manufacture, import, soll, dis tribute, and export morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts shall be provided with an authorization of a license to carry on these operations, or shall make an official declaration thereof to the competent authorities.

c. to demand of these persons the register on their books the quan- tities manufactured, the importations, the sales or any other transfer and exportations of morphine, cocaine and their respective salts. This rule shall not apply necessarily to medical prescriptions and to sales made by duly authorized pharmacists.

Article 11.

The Contracting Powers shall take measures to prohibit in their internal commerce all transfer of morphine, cocaine and their respec tive salts to all nonauthorized persons, unless existing measures have already regulated the matter.

Article 12.

The Contracting Powers, taking the differences in their conditions into account, shall use their best efforts to limit the importation of morphine, cocaine and their respective salts, to authorized persons.

Article 13.

The Contracting Powers shall use their best efforts to adopt, or cause to be adopted, measures to the end that the exportation of cocaine, morphine and their respective salts from their countries, possessions, colonies and leased territories to the countries, posses sions, colonies and leased territories of the other contracting powers,

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except in case the persons for whom the drugs are intended shall have received authorizations or permits granted in conformity with the laws or regulations of the importing country.

To this end every government may from time to time communicate to the governments of the exporting countries lists of the persons to whom authorizations or permits to import morphine, cocaine and their respective salts shall have been granted.

Article 14.

The Contracting Powers shall apply the laws and regulations for the manufacture, importation, sale or exportation of morphine, cocaine and their respective salts:

a. to medicinal opium;

b. to all preparations (officinal and non-officinal including the so- called anti-opium remedies) containing more than 0.2% of morphine or more than 0.1% of cocaine;

c. to heroin, its salts and preparations containing more than 0.1% of heroin;

d. to every new derivative of morphine, cocaine or their respective salts or to any other alkaloid of opium which might after generally recognized scientific investigations give rise to similar abuse and to result in the same injurious effects.

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Article 15.

The Contracting Powers having treaties with China (Treaty Pow- ers) shall take, on concert with the Chinese Government, the meas- ures necessary for the prevention of the snuggling, as well with respect to Chinese territory as with respect to their colonies in the Far East and the leased territories which they occupy, in China, of raw and prepared opium, morphine, cocaine and their respective Balts, as well as of the substances indicated in article 14 of the present Convention. On its side the Chinese Government shall take analo- gous measures for the suppression of the smuggling of opium and the other substances hereinbefore indicated, from China to foreign colonies and leased territories.

Article 16.

The Chinese Government shall promulgate pharmacy laws for its subjects, regulating the sale and distribution of morphine, cocaine and their respective salts and of the substances indicated in article 14 of the present Convention, and shall communicate these laws to the Governments having treaties with China, through the intermedi- ary of their diplomatic representatives at Pekin. The Contracting Powers having treaties with China shall examine these laws, and, if they find them acceptable, shall take the necessary measures to the end th they be applied to their nationals residing in China.