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CAP. 134]

Dangerous Drugs

[1988 Ed.

"dangerous drug" means any of the drugs or substances specified in Part I of the First Schedule;

"Director" means the Director of Medical and Health Services; a deputy director of medical and health services or an assistant director of medical and health services,

"divan" means any place or premises opened, kept or used, whether on one occasion or more than one occasion, for the smoking, inhalation, ingestion or injection of a dangerous drug;

"diversion certificate" means a certificate issued by a competent authority in a country outside Hong Kong through which a dangerous drug passes in transit-

(a) authorizing the diversion of such drug to a country other than that specified in the export authorization relating to that drug as the country to which it was to be exported;

(b) containing full particulars of such drug and the quantity authorized to be diverted and of the names and addresses of the person by whom the drug is to be diverted and the person to whom it is to be sent; and

(c) specifying the country from which the drug was originally exported; "ecgonine" means laevo-ecgonine and any derivatives of ecgonine from which it may be recovered industrially;

"export" means to take or cause to be taken out of Hong Kong or any other country, as the case may be, by land, air or water;

"export authorization" means an authorization issued by a competent authority in the country outside Hong Kong from which a dangerous drug is to be exported-

(a) containing full particulars of such drug and the quantity authorized to be exported and of the names and addresses of the person by whom the drug is to be exported and the person to whom it is to be sent; and

(b) specifying the country to which, and the period within which, it is to be exported;

"import" means to bring or cause to be brought into Hong Kong or any other country, as the case may be, by land, air or water;

"inject" or "injection" means injection into any person by a hypodermic syringe or any other method:

"in transit" means imported into Hong Kong for the sole purpose of being exported from Hong Kong to another country;

"manufacture" means any act connected with making, adulterating, purifying, mixing, separating or otherwise treating a dangerous drug; (Replaced, 40 of 1982, s. 2)

"matron" includes any person performing the duties of a matron and any person, whatever the title of the office which he holds, performing duties of the kind performed by a matron;