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[(1)] No one shall- (a) cultivate any coca plant or gather any portion of a coca plant; (b) manufacture or possess prepared opium, unless it is prepared from opium lawfully possessed for the consumption of the person so possessing it; or (c) import into [India], export from [India], tranship or sell prepared opium: Provided that this section shall not apply to the cultivation of any coca plant or to the gathering of any portion thereof on behalf of the Government. [(2) The State Government may make rules restricting and regulating the manufacture and possession of prepared opium from opium which is lawfully possessed under clause (b) of sub-section (1).] The original Sec.4 re-numbered as sub-section (1) of that section by Act 26 of 1938, Sec.3. Subs. by Act 62 of 1956, Sec.2 and Schedule for "the State". Inserted by Act 26 of 1933, Sec.3.