THE DANGEROUS DRUGS (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, 1960

Supplement "C" to the Gambia Gazette No. 36 of 31 August 1960

Assented to in Her Majesty's name this Twenty-sixth day of August, 1960.

K. G. S. SMITH,

Officer Administering the Government

AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE DANGEROUS DRUGS ORDINANCE (CAP. 111)

Date of commencement

31st August, 1960

Enactment.

ENACTED by the Legislature of the Gambia, as follows:

1. Short title.

THIS ORDINANCE may be cited as the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Ordinance, 1960.

2. Interpretation Cap. 111.

In this Ordinance, the words "principal Ordinance" mean the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance.

3. Amendment of section 12 of the principal Ordinance.

Section 12 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting therefrom subsection (1) and inserting the following subsection in the place thereof -

"(1) The drugs to which this Part of this Ordinance applies are - 1. Medicinal ; 2. Any extract or tincture of (Indian hemp) and any preparation, not being a preparation capable of external use only, made from extract or tincture of cannabis; 3. and its salts, and any solution or dilution of morphine or its salts in an inert substance whether liquid or solid containing any proportion of morphine, and any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance (not being such a solution or dilution as aforesaid) containing not less than one-fifth of one per cent of morphine (calculated in respect of anhydrous morphine); 4. (including synthetic cocaine) and ecgonine and their respective salts, and any solution or dilution of cocaine or its salts in an inert substance, whether liquid or solid, containing any proportion of cocaine, and any preparation admixture, extract or other substance (not being such a solution or dilution as aforesaid) containing not less than one-tenth of one per cent of cocaine or any proportion of ecgonine; 5. ; 6. Acetyldihydrocodeinone [> ] [ href= "#f01"> 1/ ] ; 7. Alphameprodine ; 8. Alphaprodine ; 9. Bensylmorphine; 10. Betameprodine ; 11. Betaprodine ; 12. Diacetylmorphine (also known as diamorphine or ); 13. Diethylthiambutene ; 14. Dihydrodesoxymorphine (also known as ); 15. ; 16. 1 : 3-dimethyl-4-phenyl-4-propionyloxyhexamethyleneimine [>1,3-dimethyl-4- phenyl-4-propionoxyhexamethyleneimine ( ) ];

1. Dimethylthiambutene ; 2. Dioxaphetyl butyrate (4-morpholine-2: 2-diphenyl ethylbutyrate) [>ethyl-4- morpholino-2,2-diphenylbutyrate ]; 3. ; 4. Ethylmethylthiambutene ; 5. (also known as dihydrocodeinone or dicodide); 6. (also known as dihydromorphinone or dilaudide); 7. Hydroxypethidine ; 8. ; (also known as isoamidone); 9. ; 10. ; 11. ; 12. Methadol [> dimepheptanol ]; 13. (also known as amidone); 14. Methadyl acetate [> ]; 15. Methyldesomorphine [> methyldesorphine ] (6-methyl-?6-desoxy-morphine); 16. 1-methyl-4-phenylpiperidine-4-carboxylic acid isopropyl ester [> properidine ]; 17. (also known as methyldihydromorphinone [>7-methyldihydro-morphinone ]); 18. Morphine-N-oxide (also known as genomorphine); 19. Normethadone ; 20. (also known as dihydrohydroxycodeinone or eucodal); 21. ; 22. ; 23. Phenomorphan (3-hydroxy-N-phenethylmorphinan); 24. Propoxyphene (4-dimethylamino-1,2-diphenyl-3-methyl-2-propionyloxybutane [imethylamino-3-methyl-1,2-diphenyl-2-propionoxybutane]); 25. Racemethorphan ; 26. ; 27. ; 28. The esters of morphine (other than diacetylmorphine; ecgonine, oxycodone , hydrocodone , hydromorphone , acetyldihydrocodeinone and dihydromorphine; the ethers of morphine, (other than benxylmorphine, , , and pholcodine ); the morphine-N-oxide derivatives, and any other pentavalent nitrogen morphine derivatives.

For the purpose of the foregoing provision -

(i) "ecgonine" means laevo-ecgonine and includes any deri