(1) Whenever two or more persons are prosecuted for any offence under this Act, the Magistrate may, if, for reasons to be recorded by him, he thinks fit, tender to any such poison a Pardon on condition of his making full and true disclosures of all facts connected with the offence.
(2) Such person shall become a competent witness in the case and will not be liable to punishment for such offence so long as such pardon remains.
Saving of the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1930 Act II of 1930
29. Nothing in this Act or in the rules made under this Act shall affect the validity of the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1930 or of any rule made thereunder which imposes any restriction not imposed by or under this Act or imposes a restriction greater in degree than a corresponding restriction imposed by, or under, this Act, on the consumption of, or traffic in, prepared opium with in [***] 4 India.
1. Subs. by the A. O. 1950 for (Crown) which had been subs. by the A. O. 1937 for (Secretary of State for India in Council).
2. Subs. by s. 2 of U. P. Act No. XXIII of 1961.
3. Subs. by the A. O. 1950 for (Provl. Govt.) which had been subs. by the A. O. 1937 for (L. G.).
4. The word (British) omit. by the A. O. 1950.