Section 2: Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
"coca leaves" means the leaves of any plant of the family erythroxylaceae from which cocaine can be extracted either directly or by chemical transformation;
"cocaine" means methyl-benzoyl-laevo-ecgonine ([a] D20° = - 1604) in 20 per cent
solution of chloroform having the formula C17H21NO4;
"corresponding law" means any law stated in a certificate purporting to be issued by or on behalf of the Government of any country outside Nigeria to be a law providing for the control and regulation in that country of the manufacture, sale, use, export, import and transit of drugs in accordance with the provisions of the Hague Convention or of the Geneva Convention (No.1) or of the Geneva Convention (No.2), and any statement in any such certificate as to the effect of the law mentioned in the certificate, or any statement in any such certificate that any facts constitute an offence against that law, shall be conclusive;
"(diacetylmorphine" means diamorphine or heroin having the chemical formula C21H23NO5;
"ecgonine" means laevo-ecgonine ([a] D20° = - 45°6 in 5 per cent solution of water) having the formula Cg H15NO3 H20 and all derivations of laevo-ecgonine which might serve industrially for its recovery;
"export", with its grammatical variation and cognate expressions in relation to Nigeria, means to take or cause to be taken out of Nigeria by land, air, or water, otherwise than in transit;
"import", with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions in relation to Nigeria, means to bring or cause to be brought into Nigeria by land, air, or water, otherwise than in transit;
"Indian hemp" means-
(a) any plant or part of a plant of the genus cannabis; or
(b) the separate resin, whether crude or purified, obtained from any plant of the genus cannabis; or
(c)
any preparation containing any such resin, by whatever name that plant, part, resin, preparation may be called;
"in transit" means taken or sent from any country and brought into Nigeria by land, air, or water (whether or not landed or trans-shipped in Nigeria) for the sole purpose of being carried to another country either by the same or another conveyance and "transit" has a corresponding meaning;
"medicinal opium" means raw opium which has undergone the processes necessary to adapt it for medicinal use in accordance with the requirements of the British pharmacopoeia,
whether it is in the form of powder or is granulated or is in any other form, and whether it is or is not mixed with neutral substances;
"morphine" means the principal alkaloid of opium, having the chemical formula C17H19N03;
"prepared opium" means opium prepared for smoking and includes dross and any other residues remaining after opium has been smoked;
"raw opium" means the spontaneously coagulated juice obtained from the capsules of the Papaver somniforum L. which has only been submitted to the necessary manipulations for packing an transport, whatever its contents of morphine, and includes powdered or granulated opium, but does not include medical opium;
"the Geneva Convention (No.1)" means the Convention signed on behalf of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the 19th day of February, 1925, at a conference held at Geneva for the purpose of completing and strengthening the provisions of the Hague Conference;
"the Geneva Convention (No.2)" means the Convention signed on behalf of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the 13th day of July, 1931, for the purposes of limiting the manufacture and regulating the distribution of narcotic drugs;
"the Hague Convention" means the International Opium Convention signed at the Hague on the 23rd day of January, 1912.