PART I | 1. This Act may be cited as the Misuse of Drugs Act. |
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —| “approved institution” means any institution or place declared by the Minister to be an approved institution under section 38; |
| “article liable to seizure” means any money, thing, controlled equipment or controlled materials by means of or in respect of which an offence under this Act has been committed or which contains evidence of an offence under this Act; |
| “cannabis” means any part of plant of the genus Cannabis, or any part of such plant, by whatever name it is called; |
| “cannabis mixture” means any mixture of vegetable matter containing tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabinol in any quantity; |
| “cannabis resin” means any substance containing resinous material and in which is found tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabinol in any quantity; |
| “Class A drug”, “Class B drug” and “Class C drug” mean any of the substances and products for the time being specified, respectively, in Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule; |
| “controlled drug” means any substance or product which is for the time being specified in Part I, II or III of the First Schedule or anything that contains any such substance or product; |
| “controlled equipment, controlled materials or controlled substances” means any equipment, materials or substances respectively specified in the Third Schedule; [Act 20/98] |
| “corresponding law” means a law stated in a certificate purporting to be issued by or on behalf of the government of a country outside Singapore to be a law providing for the control and regulation in that country of the production, supply, use, export and import of drugs and other substances in accordance with the provisions of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs signed at New York on 30th March 1961, or a law providing for the control and regulation in that country of the production, supply, use, export and import of dangerous or otherwise harmful drugs in pursuance of any treaty, convention or other agreement or arrangement to which the government of that country and the Government of Singapore are for the time being parties; |
“drug addict” means a person who, through the use of any controlled drug, has developed —| (a) | a desire or need to continue to take that controlled drug; or | | (b) | a psychological or physical dependence upon the effect of that controlled drug; |
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| “immigration officer” has the same meaning as in the Immigration Act (Cap. 133); |
| “inmate” means a person who is detained in an approved institution; |
“manufacture”, in relation to —| (a) | a controlled drug, includes any process of producing the drug and the refining or transformation of one drug into another; or | | (b) | a controlled substance, includes any process of producing the substance and the refining or transformation of one substance into another; [Act 20/98] |
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| “officer of customs” has the same meaning as in the Customs Act (Cap. 70); |
| “officer of the Bureau” means the Director or any officer of the Central Narcotics Bureau; |
| “opium” means any substance containing in any quantity morphine and one or more of the following, namely, codeine, narcotine, papaverine and thebaine but does not include poppy-straw which is not mixed in any such substance; |
| “permanent resident of Singapore” includes the holder of a Singapore blue identity card and a person who holds an entry permit or a re-entry permit issued by the Director, Singapore Immigration & Registration; [Act 20/98] |
| “police officer” has the same meaning as in the Police Force Act (Cap. 235); |
| “Review Committee”, in relation to an approved institution, means a Review Committee appointed for the institution under section 40; |
| “senior officer of customs” has the same meaning as in the Customs Act (Cap. 70); |
| “special police officer” means a member of the Special Constabulary constituted under Part VIII of the Police Force Act (Cap. 235); |
| “specified drug”, except for the purposes of the Second Schedule, means a drug specified in the Fourth Schedule; [Act 20/98] |
“traffic” means —| (a) | to sell, give, administer, transport, send, deliver or distribute; or | | (b) | to offer to do anything mentioned in paragraph (a), |
| otherwise than under the authority of this Act or any regulations made thereunder; and “trafficking” has a corresponding meaning; |
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| “Vigilante Corps” means the Vigilante Corps constituted under the Vigilante Corps Act (Cap. 343). [49/75; 12/77; 40/93] |
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| Appointment of Director and other officers of Central Narcotics Bureau |
| 3.—(1) The Minister may appoint a Director and a Deputy Director of the Central Narcotics Bureau and such number of Assistant Directors and other officers as the Minister may think fit. [49/75] | (2) All officers of the Bureau appointed by the Minister before 12th December 1975 shall be deemed to have been appointed under subsection (1). [49/75] |
| (3) The powers and functions conferred upon the Director of the Central Narcotics Bureau under this Act, and the duties required to be discharged by him may, subject to such limitations as the Director may impose, be exercised and discharged by the Deputy Director or an Assistant Director of the Central Narcotics Bureau duly authorised by the Director to act on his behalf. [Act 20/98] |
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| 4.—(1) For the purpose of assisting in the administration of this Act, the Minister may from time to time appoint such advisory committees as he thinks fit. [12/77] | (2) Every such committee shall have such functions as the Minister may from time to time determine. [12/77] |
| (3) Subject to any regulations made under this Act, every such committee may regulate its own procedure. [12/77] |
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