Section 17
Section 17
It shall not be lawful for any person to trade in, or manufacture for the purposes of trade, any products obtained from any of the phenanthrene alkaloids of opium or from the ecgonine alkaloids of the coca leaf, not being a product which was on 30 March 1961, being used for medical or scientific purposes or not being a substance specified in the First Schedule:
Provided that if the Minister is at any time satisfied as respects any such product that it is of medical or scientific value, the Minister may by order direct that this subsection shall cease to apply to that product.
If any person acts in contravention of this subsection, he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding ten thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding *five years or to both.
(2)
If it is made to appear to the Minister that a decision with respect to any such product as is mentioned in subsection (1) has in pursuance of article 3 of the Single Convention been communicated by the Secretary General of the United Nations Organization to the parties to the said Convention, the Minister may by order, as the case requires, either declare that this Part shall apply to that product in the same manner as they apply to the drugs mentioned in subsection 11(1) or apply this Part to that product with such modifications as may be specified in the order.
*NOTE—Previously “three years”–see Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 1973 [Act A194].
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(3)
The Minister may by order make, in the First Schedule, any alterations incidental to the inclusion of any such drug or substance in such Schedule.