Section 8: Drugs to which Part III applies

(1) The drugs to which this Part of this Act applies are-
(a) medical opium;
(b) any extract or tincture of indian hemp;
(c) morphine and its salts, and diacetylmorphine (commonly known as diamorphine or heroin) and the other esters of morphine and their respective salts;
(d) cocaine (including synthetic cocaine) and ecgonine and their respective salts, and the esters or ecgonine and their respective salts;
(e) any solution or dilution of morphine or cocaine or their salts in an inert substance, whether liquid or solid, containing any proportion of morphine or cocaine, and any preparation, admixture, extract or other substances (not being such a solution or dilution as aforesaid) containing not less than one-fifth per cent of morphine or one-tenth per cent of cocaine or of ecgonine;
(f) any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of diacetylmorphine;
(g)
dihydrohydroxycodeinone,dihydrocodeinone,dihydromorphinone,acetyldihydrocodeinone,dihydromorphine, their esters and the salts of any of these substances and of their esters, morphine-N-oxide (commonly known as genomorphine) the morphine-N oxide derivatives, and any other pentavalent nitrogen morphine derivatives;
(h) the baine and its salts, and (with the exception of methylmorphine, commonly known a codeine, and ethylmorphine, commonly known as dionin, and their respective salts) benzylmorphine and the other ethers of morphines and their respective salts;
(i) any preparation, admixtures, extract or other substances containing any proportion of any of the substances mentioned in paragraph (g) or in paragraph (h) of this subsection.
(2) For the purpose of subsection (1) of this section-
(a) the percentage in the case of morphine shall be calculated in respect of anhydrous morphine; and
(b)
percentages in the case of liquid penetrations shall, unless other provisions in that behalf is made by regulations, be calculated on the basis that a preparation containing one per cent of any substance means a preparation in which one gramme of the substance, if a solid, or one millilitre of the substance, if a liquid, is contained in every one hundred millilitres of the preparation, and so in proportion for any greater or less percentage;
(c) "ecgonine" means laevo-ecgonine and includes any derivatives of ecgonine from which it may be recovered industrially.
(3) If it appears to the President that any new derivative or morphine or cocaine or of any salts of morphine or cocaine or any other alkaloid of opium or any other drug of whatever kind is or is likely to be productive, if improperly used, or is capable of being converted into a substance which is or is likely to be productive, if improperly used, of ill effects, substantially of the same character or nature as or analogous to those produced by morphine or cocaine, the President may, by order, declare that this Part shall apply to that new derivative or alkaloid or other drug in the same manner as it applies to the drugs mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, and make any verbal alterations in the lists of drugs specified in subsection (1) incidental to the declaration contained in such order.
(4)
If the President thinks fit, by order, to declare that a finding with respect to any preparation containing any of the drugs to which this Part applies has in pursuance of Article 8 of the Geneva Convention (No. 1) been communicated by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to the parties to the said Convention, the provisions of this Part shall, as from such date as may be specified in the order, cease to apply to the preparations specified therein.