Amendment of Act 16 of 1955

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.... (b) in section 2, - (i) after clause (a), the following clauses shall be inserted, namely :- '(aa) "coca derivative" means - (i) crude cocaine, that is, any extract of coca leaf which can be used, directly or indirectly, for the manufacture of cocaine; (ii) ecgonine, that is, laevo-ecgonine having the chemical formula C9 H15 NO3 H2O, and all the derivatives....

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....s undergone the processes necessary to adapt it for medicinal use; (ii) prepared opium, that is, any product of opium obtained by any series of operations designed to transform opium into an extract suitable for smoking, and the dross or other residue remaining after opium is smoked; (iii) morphine, that is, the principal alkaloid of opium having the chemical formula C17 H12 NO3,....