E/NL . 1960/121 27 January 1961 UNITED NATIONS ENGLISH ONLY
LAWS AND REGULATIONS PROMULGATED TO GIVE EFFECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE CONVENTION OF 13 JULY 1931 FOR LIMITING THE MANUFACTURE AND REGULATING THE DISTRIBUTION OF NARCOTIC DRUGS, AS AMENDED BY THE PROTOCOL OF 11 DECEMBER 1946
GAMBIA
Communicated by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
NOTE BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL--In accordance with Article 21 of the Convention of 13 July 1931 for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs, as amended by the Protocol of 11 December 1946, the Secretary-General' has the honour to communicate the following legislative text.
Supplement "C" to the Gambia Gazette No. 36 of 31 August* 1960
THE DANGEROUS DRUGS (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, 1960
No. 6 of 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. Ill) Date of 31st August, 1960 commencement
ENACTED by the Legislature of the Gambia, as follewsj Enactment.
1. THIS ORDINANCE may be cited as the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Short title. Ordinance, 1960.
2. In this Ordinance, the words "principal Ordinance" mean the Interpreta• Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. tion Cap. 111. _ 2 -
Amendment 3. Section 12 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting therefrom of section subsection (l) and inserting the following subsection in the place thereof - 12 of the principal "(1) The drugs to which this Part of this Ordinance applies are - Ordinance. (1) Medicinal opium;
(2) Any extract or tincture of cannabis (Indian hemp) and any preparation, not being a preparation capable of external use only, made from extract or tincture of cannabis;
(3) Morphine 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) Cocaine (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) Acetyldihydrocodeine;
(6) Acetyldihydrocodeinone /"thebacon_7~^;
(7) Alphameprodine;
(8) Alphaprodine;
(9) Benzylmorphine;
(10) Betameprodine;
(11) Betaprodine;
(12) Diacetylmorphine (also known as diamorphine or heroin);
(13) Diethylthiambutene;
(14) Dihydrodesoxymorphine (also known as desomorphine);
(15) Dihydromorphine;
(16) 1 : 3-dimethyl-4-phenyl-4-propionyloxyhexanetbyleneimine £*l,3-dimethyl-4—phenyl-4-propionoxyhexamethyleneimine (proheptazlne)7;
1/ Note by the Secretariat! The words in square brackets hare been inserted by the Secretariat. Proposed or recommended international non-prsprietary names of drugs are underlined. - 3 -
(17) Dimethylthlambutene;
(18) Dioxaphetyl butyrate (4-uorpholin*-2t 2-diphenyl ethylbutyrate) i ethyl-4-morpho lino-2 ,2-diphenylbutyrate_7J
(19) Dipipanone;
(20) Ethylmethylthiambutene\
(21) Hydrocodone (also known as dibydrocodeinone or dicodide);
(22) Hydromorphone (also known as dihydromorphinone or dilaudide);
(23) Hydroxypethidinet
(24) Isomethadone; (also known as isoamidone);
(25) Ketobemidone;
(26) Levomethorphan;
(27) Levorphanol;
(28) Methadol /"dimepheptanol 7»
(29) Methadone (also known as amidone)j
(30) Methadyl acetate /~acetylmethadol 7; (31) Methyldesomorphine f Bethyldesorphine.7 (6-methyl-£6-desoxy- morphine); (32) l-metbyl-4-phenylpiperidine-4-carboxylic acid isopropyl ester /"properidine 7? (33) Metopon (also known as methyldihydromorphinone /"7-methyldihydro- raorphinone_7 ); (34) Morphine-N-oxide (also known as genomorphine)j
(35) Normethadone; (36) Oxycodone (also known as dibydrohydroxycodeinone or eucodal);
(37) Pethidine;
(38) Fhenadoxone;
(39) Phenomorphan (3-hydroxy-N-phenethylmorphinan)|
(40) Propoxyphene (4-dimethylamino-l,2-diphenyl-3-methyl-2- propionyloxybutane /"4-dimethylamino—3-Bethyl-l,2-diphenyl-2- propionoxybutane J);
(41) Racemethorphan;
(42) Racemorphan;
(43) Thebaine} - 4 -
(44) The esters of morphine (other than diacetylmorphine; ecgonine, oxycodone, hydrocodone. hydromorphone, acetyldihydxocodeinone and dihydromorphine5 the ethers of morphine, (other than benzylmorphine, codeine, ethylmorphine, 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 derivatives of ecgonine from which it may be recovered industrially; (ii) each drug specified in paragraphs (5) to (44) both inclusive of this subsection shall be deemed to comprise its salts and any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing it or its salts."
PASSED in the House of Representatives this Twenty-eighth day of July, in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and sixty.
A. S. N. DAVIES Clerk of the House of Representatives.
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the House of Representatives, and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill.
A. S. N. DAVIES Clerk of the House of Representatives.