Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) No one shall- (a) import or export inter-provincially, transport, possess or sell any manufactured drug, other than prepared opium, or coca leaf, or (b) manufacture medicinal opium or any preparation containing morphine, diacetylmorphine or cocaine, save in accordance with rules made under sub-section (2) and with the conditions of any licence for that purpose which he may be required to obtain under those rules. (2) The State Government may [xxxx] make rules permitting and regulating- (a) the inter-State import and export into and from the territories under its administration, the transport, possession and sale of manufactured drugs, other than prepared opium, and of coca leaf; and (b) the manufacture of medicinal opium, or of any preparation containing morphine, diacetylmorphine or cocaine from materials which the maker is lawfully entitled to possess. Such rules may prescribe the form and conditions of licences for such import, export, transport, possession, sale and manufacture, the authorities by which such licences may be granted and the fees that may be charged therefor, and any other matters requisite to render effective the control of the State Government over such import, export, transport, possession, sale and manufacture. (3) Save in so far as may be expressly provided in rules made under sub-section (2), nothing in this section shall apply to manufactured drugs which are the property and in the possession of Government: Provided that such drugs shall not be sold or otherwise delivered to any person who, under the rules made by the State Government under this section, is not entitled to their possession. The words "subject to the control of the Governor-in-Council", rep. by the A.O. 1937.