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of a fine imposed under this Ordinance may be ordered to commence at the expiration of any term of imprisonment imposed on that person for the same offence in addition to

the fine.

12. It shall be lawful for the court or a magistrate to Forfeiture. order to be forfeited to the Crown any article with respect to which any offence under this Ordinance has been committed, whether any person shall have been convicted of such offence or not, and upon the making of any such order of forfeiture the said article shall be deemed to be the property of the Crown free from all rights of any person.

Ordinance

not to be

13. Nothing in the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, This 1916, or in any regulation made under the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1916, whenever made, shall have the affect affected by of relaxing or limiting in any way whatever any of the No. 9 of provisions of this Ordinance or of any regulation made there- 1916,

under.

Ordinance

prosions as to certain

opium and

c.

14. -(1) No person

shall trade in or manufacture for the Special purpose of trade any products obtained from any of the phen- anthrene alkaloids of opium, or from the ecgonine alkaloids alkaloids of of the coca leaf, not being a product which was on the coca leaf. thirteenth day of July, 1931 (the date on which the Geneva 22 Geo. 5, Convention, 1931, was signed on behalf of His Majesty), being . 15, s. 2. used for medical or scientific purposes: Provided that if the Governor in Council is at any time satisfied as respects any such product that it is of medical or scientific value, he may by order declare that this sub-section shall cease to apply to that product.

(2) If it is made to appear to the Governor in Council that a decision with respect to any such product as is mention- ed in sub-section (1) of this section has, in pursuance of Article 11 of the Geneva Convention, 1931, been communic- ated by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations to the parties to the said Convention, the Governor in Council may, by Order either declare that the provisions of this Ordin- ance shall apply to that product in the same manner as they apply to the drugs mentioned in sub-section (1) of section 5, or apply the said provisions to that product with such modi- fications as may be specified in the Order.

(3) The Governor in Council may by Order apply the provisions of this Ordinance, with such modifications as may be specified in the Order, to any of the following drugs, that is to say, methylmorphine (commonly known as codeine), ethylmorphine (commonly known as dionin) and their res- pective salts.

as to coca

15. The provisions of this Ordinance shall apply in the Special case of coca leaves as if for the expressions "drug to which provisions this Ordinance applies", or "drug", there were substituted leaves. the expression 'coca leaves".

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16. (1) No person shall cultivate the plant known as Special cannabis sativa.

(2) No person shall have in his possession any specimen or any quantity of the plant known as cannabis sativa or any portion of such plant.

provisions as to cannabis sativa.

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