Criminal Law Code as at 1st March 2007 (b) any medical practitioner, dental practitioner or veterinary surgeon; (c) any pharmaceutical chemist licensed in terms of the Medicines and Allied Substances Control Act [Chapter 15:03] or pharmaceutical chemist or other person— (i) employed in a hospital, clinic, dispensary or like institution administered by the State or by a local authority, or in any other hospital, clinic, dispensary or like institution approved by the Minister responsible for health; or (ii) employed in any medical store of the State; (d) any person in charge of a laboratory used for the purposes of research or instruction and attached to— (i) a university, a university college or other educational institution approved by the Minister responsible for health; or (ii) any hospital referred to in subparagraph (i) of paragraph (c); (e) any analyst employed by the State; or (f) any inspector appointed in terms of the Medicines and Allied Substances Control Act [Chapter 15:03]; or (g) any other person prescribed by the Minister by notice in a statutory instrument after consultation with the Minister responsible for health; may, in that capacity and so far as is necessary for the practice or exercise of that person’s profession, function or employment, lawfully acquire, possess and supply any coca bush, cannabis plant, raw opium or scheduled drug and, in the case of a Part I scheduled drug, prescribe, administer, manufacture or compound such drug. (2) A qualified nurse— (a) in charge of a ward, theatre or out-patients’ department in any hospital referred to in subparagraph (i) of paragraph (c) of subsection (1); or (b) who— (i) is employed in a supervisory capacity over two or more wards in any hospital referred to in subparagraph (i) of paragraph (c) of subsection (1); and (ii) has been appointed by the medical practitioner in charge of the hospital to be responsible at any time for the distribution of Part I scheduled drugs within the hospital; may, in that capacity and so far as is necessary for the practice of that nurse’s profession, function or employment, lawfully acquire, administer, possess and supply a Part I scheduled drug. (3) A person licensed by the Authority may, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the licence, import or export opium poppies, coca bushes, cannabis plants or a Part I scheduled drug. (4) A person licensed by the Authority may, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the licence, cultivate opium poppies, coca bushes or cannabis plants. (5) A person licensed by the Authority may, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the licence and on premises authorised or licensed by the Authority for the purpose, - 91 -