(1) An approved practitioner may possess for the purpose "of use in his practice" and not for sales, the following manufactured drugs or preparations containing these drugs, not exceeding the quantities specified below against each without obtaining a licence in this behalf, namely:—
(i) Medicinal opium 2.0 grams.
(ii) Opium Alkaloid Derivatives 0.2 grams of each variety:
(excluding prepared opium, diacetyl morphine).
PROVIDED that the Collector may, with the previous sanction of the Excise Commissioner by general or special order, authorise any 'approved practitioner to possess any large quantity.
(2) (a) An approved practitioner may be authorised by the Collector or any other officer duly authorised by the Excise Commissioner in this behalf, to possess, for the purpose of "use in his practice" and not for sales, the following manufactured drugs or preparations containing these manufactured drugs, not exceeding the quantities specified below against each—
(i) Morphine and Apropine
(a) Ampules -2.5 grams.
(b) Tablets -5.0 grams.
(ii) Pethidine—
(a) Ampules -2.5 grams.
(b) Tablets -5.0 grams.
(iii) Any other drug declared Such quantity as may be to be manufactured drug recommended by the Drug under section 2 (xi)(b) of Controller or the Director of the Act. Health Services:
PROVIDED that the Collector may, with the previous sanction of the Excise Commissioner by general or special order, authorise an \ approved practitioner to possess for "use in his practice" an‘ preparation containing not more than 0.3 grams of cocaine in aggregate.
(b) No approved practitioner shall possess any manufactured drug or any preparation containing any manufactured drug, except as provided in this rule.
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(3) No approved practitioner shall for the purpose of sale possess any quantity of any manufactured drug or preparation containing any manufactured drug.
(4) An approved practitioner shall maintain a resister in Form D.D. 15, showing the receipt and disposal of each drug or preparation containing manufactured drug.
(5) A separate page of the register shall be assigned to each of the following classes of drugs or preparations containing such drugs:
(a) Medical opium and preparations containing medicinal opium;
(b) Morphine and preparations containing morphine;
(c) Dihydropydroxy codienone (that is derivative of morphine and commonly known as Ducodal) and its preparations;
(d) Dihydrocodirione (that is, derivative of morphine and commonly known as Disodide) and its preparations;
(e) Prethidine and its preparations; and
(f) Dihydromorphine (that is, derivatives of morphine commonly known as Dilaoddide and its preparations.
(6) Entries in the register shall be made on the day on which the manufactured drugs or preparation thereof, are received or disposed of. It is not necessary that the approved practitioner shall himself enter in the register the particulars of the drugs administered by him or under his supervisions but entries shall be verified by him on the date of entry. Where approved practitioner practices at more than one premises, a separate accounts of drugs kept at each premises shall be maintained.
Explanation : (1) Expression "use in his practice" in this rule means only the actual direct administration of the drugs by or in the presence of the approved practitioner.
All other issue of the drugs by an approved practitioner shall amount to sale.
Explanation : (2) Quantity of manufactured drug in respect of preparations containing the manufactured drug means quantity of manufactured drug contained in:
such preparations.
10. The Collector may, with the previous sanction of the Excise Commissioner, by, general or special order, authorise, on his application, showing annual requirements, duly recommended by the Drugs Controller or the Assistant Drugs Controller or the Director/Dy. Director, Health Services, Delhi.
(i) a Government Medical Officer-in-charge of a Government Medical( Institution, or of a Government grant-in-aided Medical Institution, to possessi;
for use in such Institution, or
(ii) an approved practitioner in charge of a local board or Municipal Dispensa belonging to missions and other corporate bodies, to possess, for use in sue dispensary and hospital, or
(iii) a Government Medical Officer-in-charge of a hospital or dispensa belonging to Railways, to possess for use in such hospital or dispensary, possess such quantities of the manufactured drugs (other than prepare;'
opium) or preparations containing manufactured drugs as may be specifi in the order/authorisation, and subject to such conditions and in such mann as may be specified therein.
PROVIDED that the recommendations of the said authority will not be necessa in case of Government hospital/dispensaries:
RULE 13 THE DELHI NARCOTIC DRUGS RULES, 1985 225 PROVIDED FURTHER that the Collector may dispense with the requirements of the recommendations of the said authority, if in his opinion, the applicant is a man of good repute.
11. A medical officer or an approved practitioner possessing manufactured drugs under rule 10 shall:—
(a) keep accounts of the manufactured drugs received, used and held in the stock by him, from time to time, in Form D.D. 6. The accounts shall be clearly and correctly written up daily in books, bound, paged and sealed with the seal of an Excise Officer, not below the rank of Sub-Inspector, and shall show in each case of purchase, the date of purchase and the name and address of the person or firm or corporate body from whom the purchase was made. A separate page of the register shall be assigned to each manufactured drug or preparation containing such drugs;
(b) preserve the accounts, for not less than two years, from the date of the last entry in the accounts book and shall produce them, together with any manufactured drugs or preparations containing manufactured drug, that may be in his possession at the time, for inspection on demand by an Excise Officer not below the rank of Sub-Inspector;
(c) furnish to the Collector or any other officer duly authorised by him in his behalf, a week after the end of each calendar year, information regarding the purchase and consumption of the manufactured drugs or preparations containing manufactured drugs during the preceding year, the stocks held by him on the last day of the year in Form D.D. 6-A.
12. Subject to the provisions of rule 8, no person unless he is authorised in this behalf by the Collector by an order, shall possess any manufactured drugs or any preparation containing any manufactured drug. The order shall specify the maximum quantity of such drugs that may be possessed and condition subject to which the same may be possessed.