PART VI.

Products of Phenanthrene Alkaloids of Opium and of Ecgonine Alkaloids of the Coca Leaf.

23. —(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, this Part of this Act applies to the following products, that is to say, any product obtained from any of the phenanthrene alkaloids of opium or from the ecgonine alkaloids of the coca leaf, not being a product which was on the 31st day of July, 1931, being used for medical or scientific purposes.

(2) If the Executive Council is at any time satisfied as respects any product mentioned in the immediately preceding sub-section that such product is of medical or scientific value, the Executive Council may by order under this sub-section declare that such product shall cease to be a product to which this Part of this Act applies, and thereupon such product shall as from the date specified in such order cease, so long as such order is in force, to be a product to which this Part of this Act applies.

(3) The Executive Council may by order under this sub-section revoke any order previously made under sub-section (2) of this section.

24. —(1) It shall not be lawful for any person in Saorstát Eireann to trade in or manufacture for the purposes of trade any product to which this Part of this Act applies.

(2) If any person acts in contravention of this section such person shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be punishable accordingly.

25. —(1) If it appears to the Executive Council that a decision with respect to any product to which this Part of this Act applies has in pursuance of Article 11 of the Geneva Convention, 1931, been communicated by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations to the parties to the said Convention, the Executive Council may by order under this sub-section declare that the provisions of Part IV of this Act shall apply, with such modifications as may be specified in such order, to such product as if such product were a drug to which the said Part IV applies, and whenever any such order is made in relation to a product to which this Part of this Act applies the said Part IV shall, so long as such order is in force, apply, with such modifications as are specified in such order and subject to the provisions of any order made under sub-section (2) of this section amending such first mentioned order, to such product accordingly,

(2) The Executive Council may by order under this sub-section revoke or amend any order made under sub-section (1) of this section.