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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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