THE NARCOTIC DRUGS AND PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES ACT, 1985 [Act, No. 61 of 1985] [16th September, 1985] PREAMBLE An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to narcotic drugs, to make stringent provisions for the control and regulation of operations relating to narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances1[, to provide for the forfeiture of property derived from, or used in, illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, to implement the provisions of the International Convention on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances] and for matters connected therewith. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-- ______________________ 1. Inserted by Act 2 of 1989, section 2 (w.e.f. 29-5-1989).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section(1) The State Government may appoint such officers with such designations as it thinks fit for the purposes of this Act. (2) The officers appointed under sub-section (1) shall be subject to the general control and direction of the State Government, or, if so directed by that Government also of any other authority or officer.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section1[CHAPTER IIA NATIONAL FUND FOR CONTROL OF DRUG ABUSE ____________________ 1. Inserted by Act 2 of 1989, section 4 (w.e.f. 29-5-1989).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section1[8A. Prohibition of certain activities relating to property derived from offence No person shall-- (a) convert or transfer any property knowing that such property is derived from an offence committed under this Act or under any other corresponding law of any other country or from an act of participation in such offence, for the purpose of concealing or disguising the illicit origin of the property or to assist any person in the commission of an offence or to evade the legal consequences; or (b) conceal or disguise the true nature, source, location, disposition of any property knowing that such property is derived from an offence committed under this Act or under any other corresponding law of any other country; or (c) knowingly acquire, possess or use any property which was derived from an offence committed under this Act or under any other corresponding law of any other country.] ______________________ 1. Inserted by Act 9 of 2001, section 5 (w.e.f. 2-10-2001).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section1 [9A.Power to control and regulate controlled substances (1) If the CentralGovernment is of the opinion that, having regard to the use of any controlledsubstance in the production or manufacture of any narcotic drug or psychotropicsubstance, it is necessary or expedient so to do in the public interest, itmay, by order, provide for regulating or prohibiting the production,manufacture, supply and distribution thereof and trade and commerce therein. (2)Without prejudice to the generality of the power conferred by sub-section (1),an order made thereunder may provide for regulating by licences, permits orotherwise, the production, manufacture, possession, transport, importinter-State, export inter-State, sale, purchase, consumption, use, storage,distribution, disposal or acquisition of any controlled substance.] ______________________ 1.Inserted by Act 2 of 1989, section 6 (w.e.f. 29-5-1989).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section.....import inter-State, export inter-State, sale, purchase, consumption and use of opium; (iii) the cultivation of any cannabis plant, production, manufacture, possession, transport, import inter-State, export inter-State, sale, purchase consumption or use of cannabis (excluding charas); (iv) the manufacture of medicinal opium or any preparation containing any manufactured drug from materials which the maker is lawfully entitled to possess; (v) the possession, transport, purchase, sale, import inter-State, export inter-State, use or consumption of manufactured drugs other than prepared opium and of coca leaf and any preparation containing any manufactured drug; (vi) the manufacture and possession of prepared opium from opium lawfully possessed by an addict registered with the State Government on medical advice for his personal consumption: Provided that save in so far as may be expressly provided in the rules made under sub-clauses (iv) and (v), nothing in section 8 shall apply to the import inter-State, export inter-State, transport, possession, purchase, sale, use or consumption of manufactured drugs which are the property and in the possession of the Government: .....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionNotwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any law or contract, no narcotic drug, psychotropic substance, coca plant, the opium poppy or cannabis plant shall be liable to be distrained or attached by any person for the recovery of any money under any order or decree of any court or authority or otherwise.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionNotwithstanding anything contained in section 8, Government may, by general or special order and subject to such conditions as may be specified in such order, allow cultivation of any cannabis plant for, industrial purposes only of obtaining fibre or seed or for horticultural purposes.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section1[15. Punishment for contravention in relation to poppy straw Whoever, in contravention of any provisions of this Act or any rule or order made or condition of a licence granted thereunder, produces, possesses, transports, imports inter-State, exports inter-State, sells, purchases, uses or omits to warehouse poppy straw or removes or does any act in respect of warehoused poppy straw shall be punishable,-- (a) where the contravention involves small quantity, with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees or with both; (b) where the contravention involves quantity lesser than commercial quantity but greater than small quantity, with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years and with fine which may extend to one lakh rupees; (c) where the contravention involves commercial quantity, with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than ten years but which may extend to twenty years and shall also be liable to fine which shall not be less than one lakh rupees but which may extend to two lakh rupees: Provided that the court may, for reasons to be recorded in the.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionWhoever, in contravention of any provision of this Act or any rule or order made or condition of licence granted thereunder, cultivates any coca plant or gathers any portion of a coca plant or produces, possesses, sells, purchases, transports, imports inter-State, exports inter-State or uses coca leaves shall be punishable with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years or with fine which may extend to one lakh rupees.
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