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Section 25

Exemption of preparation in the possession of travellers

of Dangerous Drugs Act 1952

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Section 25

Nothing in this Part shall be deemed to apply to such quantity of any dangerous drug in the form of a medicinal preparation in the possession of any person arriving in Malaysia by land, air or water from any place outside Malaysia as is reasonably required for the use of such person and which has been supplied to such person bona fide by or on the prescription of a medical practitioner residing outside

Malaysia in accordance with the law of the country in which such

*NOTE—Previously “ten thousand ringgit” and “three years imprisonment”–see Dangerous Drugs

(Amendment) Act 1973 [Act A194].

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drug was so supplied, provided that such person shall, as soon as possible on arrival, declare his possession of such dangerous drug to an officer having authority under this Act to search such person and shall submit to such medical examination as may be required of him.

PART VA

25A–25P. (Deleted by Act 283).