DRAFT TEXT OF ARTICLES 1, 3, 4 and 5 AND PROPOSED DRAFT OF ARTICLE 1 BY THE INFORMAL WORKING GROUP AT THE THIRTY-SECOND SESSION OF THE COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS
Article 1 *
USE OF TERMS
Except where otherwise expressly indicated, or where the context otherwise requires, the following terms in this Convention have the meanings given below:
(a) "Board" means the International Narcotics Control Board;
(b) "Commercial carrier" means a public or private entity engaged in transporting persons or goods for hire;
(c) "Commission" means the Commission on Narcotic Drugs of the Council;
(d) "Controlled delivery" means the passage through the territory of one or more Parties, with the knowledge and under the surveillance of their law enforcement agencies, of illicit consignments of controlled substances, for the purpose of monitoring their movement and identifying and bringing to justice the individuals, corporations or other legal entities involved in their shipment, transportation, delivery, concealment or receipt;
(e)
"Controlled substances" means any of the drugs in Schedules I and II of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, and of that Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, all parts of the cannabis plant not included in Schedule I of those Conventions, any of the substances in Schedules I, II, III, and IV of the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, and the specific chemicals in List A and List B of this Convention;
(f)
"Council" means the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations;
(B) "Forfeiture" means the deprivation of proceeds by court order;
(h)
"Freezing" means prohibiting the transfer, conversion, disposition or movement of proceeds by order of a court or other appropriate authority;
* Original text as drafted by the Secretariat and submitted to Governments
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