THE NARCOTIC DRUGS AND PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES RULES, 1985 1 — The Chhattisgarh Excise Act, 1915

THE NARCOTIC DRUGS AND PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES RULES, 1985 1 In exercise of the powers conferred by section 9, read with section 76 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (61 of 1985), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules, namely:- CHAPTER 1 PRELIMINARY Short title and commencement.-(!) These rules may be called the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Rules, 1985. They shall come into force on the date2 of their publication in the Official Gazette. Definitions.-ln these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "the Act," means the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (61 of 1985); (b) "Appellate Authority" means any authority to whom an appeal may lie under any provision of these rules; 3 [(c) "Chemical Examiner" means the Chemical Examiner or Deputy Chief Chemist or Shift Chemist or Assistant Chemical Examiner, Government Opium and Alkaloid Works, Neemuch or, as the case may be, Ghazipur;] (d) "Chief Controller of Factories" means the Chief Controller of Government Opium and Alkaloid Factories; [(da) "Controller of Drugs" means the officer appointed as the controlling authority by the State Government under rule 50 of the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945 made under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 (23 of 1940);] 4 (e) "crop year" means the period beginning on and from the 1st October of any year to the 30th September of the following year; 4 [[(eb) "Form" means a Form oppended to these Rules;] [(ea) "Firm" means a company, body corporate, proprietorship firm, partnership firm, limited liability partnership firm, association of persons;] 4 (f) "General Manager" means the General Manager, Government Opium and Alkaloid Works, Neemuch or, as the case may be, Ghazipur; (g) "issuing authority" means the