Section 9: Prohibition of trade in new drugs, and power to apply Part III, with or without modifications, to certain drugs

(1)
It shall not be lawful for any person in Nigeria to trade in or manufacture for the purpose of trade any products obtained from any of the phenanthrene alkalids of opium or from the ecgonine alkaloids of the coca leaf, not being a product which was on the 13th day of July, 1931, being used for medical or scientific purposes:
Provided that if the President is at any time satisfied as respects any such product that it is of medical or scientific value, he may by order direct that this section shall cease to apply to that product.
(2) If any person acts in contravention of the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.
(3)
If it is made to appear to the President that a decision with respect to any such product as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section has in pursuance of Article 11 of the Geneva Convention (No. 2) been communicated by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to the parties to the said Convention, the President may by order, as the case requires, either declare the provisions of the said Part III shall apply to that product in the same manner as they apply to the drugs mentioned in subsection (1) of section 9 of this Act, or apply the said Part III to that product with such modifications as may be specified in the order.
(4)
The President may by order apply Part III of this Act, with such modifications as may be specified in the order, to any of the following drugs, that is to say, methylmorphine (commonly known as codeine), ethylmorphine (commonly known as dionin) and their respective salts.