Chapter 15:02
\nDANGEROUS DRUGS ACT
\nActs 28\/1955, 1\/1996, 22\/2001, 23\/2004.
\nSI\u2019s 93\/2010 and 161\/2012.
\nARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
\nPART I
\nPRELIMINARY
\nSection
\nPART II
\nCOCA LEAVES, INDIAN HEMP AND RAW OPIUM
\nPART III
\n[repealed by Act 23 of 2004 with effect from the 1st July, 2006.]
\nPART IV
\nMEDICINAL OPIUM, COCAINE, MORPHINE AND OTHER DRUGS<\/p>\n
Chapter 15:02
\nDANGEROUS DRUGS ACT
\nActs 28\/1955, 1\/1996, 22\/2001, 23\/2004.
\nSI\u2019s 93\/2010 and 161\/2012.
\nARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
\nPART I
\nPRELIMINARY
\nSection
\nPART II
\nCOCA LEAVES, INDIAN HEMP AND RAW OPIUM
\nPART III
\n[repealed by Act 23 of 2004 with effect from the 1st July, 2006.]
\nPART IV
\nMEDICINAL OPIUM, COCAINE, MORPHINE AND OTHER DRUGS
\nPART V
\nCONTROL OF DANGEROUS DRUGS
\n[substituted by Act 23 of 2004 with effect from the 1st July, 2006.]
\nPART VI
\nGENERAL
\nAN ACT to control the importation, exportation, production, possession, sale, distribution and
\nuse of dangerous drugs; and to provide for matters incidental thereto.
\n[Date of commencement: 15th April, 1956.]
\nPART I
\nPRELIMINARY
\n1 Short title
\nThis Act may be cited as the Dangerous Drugs Act [Chapter 15:02].
\n2 Interpretation
\n(1) In this Act\u2014
\n\u201ccorresponding law\u201d means a law stated in a certificate purporting to be issued by or on behalf of
\nthe government of a country outside Zimbabwe to be a law providing for the control and regulation in
\nthat country of the manufacture, sale, use, export and import of drugs in accordance with the Hague
\nConvention, the Geneva Convention (No. 1) and the Geneva Convention (No. 2);
\n\u201c Director-General \u201d means the Director-General of the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe
\nappointed in terms of section 26 of the Medicines and Allied Substances Control Act [Chapter 15:03];
\n\u201cGeneva Convention (No.1)\u201d means the International Opium Convention signed at Geneva on the
\n19th February, 1925;
\n\u201cGeneva Convention (No.2)\u201d means the International Convention for limiting the manufacture,
\nregulation and distribution of narcotic drugs signed at Geneva on the 13th July, 1931;
\n\u201cHague Convention\u201d means the International Opium Convention signed at the Hague on the 3rd
\nJanuary, 1912;
\n\u201cinspector\u201d means an inspector appointed in terms of section fifteen;
\n\u201cMinister\u201d means the Minister of Health and Child Welfare or any other Minister to whom the
\nPresident may, from time to time, assign the administration of this Act;
\n[By S.I. 161 of 2012 the Minister of Health and Child Welfare was re-assigned]
\n\u201cRegistrar\u201d
\n[Repealed by Act 1 of 1996 with effect from the 1st August, 1997.]
\n\u201cSecretary\u201d means the Secretary of the Ministry for which the Minister is responsible;
\n\u201cspecified police officer\u201d means any member of the Police Force of or above the rank of sergeant.
\n(2) In any certificate such as is referred to in the definition of \u201ccorresponding law\u201d in subsection (1),
\na statement as to the effect of the law mentioned in such certificate or a statement in any such
\ncertificate that any facts constitute an offence against that law shall be conclusive.
\n(3) Any word or expression to which a meaning has been assigned in Chapter VII (\u201cCrimes Involving
\nDangerous Drugs\u201d) of the Criminal Law Code shall have the same meaning when used in this Act.
\n[inserted by Act 23 of 2004 with effect from the 1st July, 2006]
\nPART II
\nCOCA LEAVES, INDIAN HEMP AND RAW OPIUM
\n3 Application of Part II
\nThis Part applies to any dangerous drug referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition of \u201c dangerous
\ndrug \u201d in section 155 of the Criminal Law Code [Chapter 9:23] (that is, any coca bush, coca leaf, raw
\nopium or cannabis plant).
\n[substituted by Act 23 of 2004 with effect from the 1st July, 2006]
\n4 . . . . .
\n5 . . . . .
\n[repealed by Act 23 of 2004 with effect from the 1st July, 2006]
\n6 Regulations
\n(1) The Minister may by regulation\u2014
\n(a) prohibit, control or restrict the production, possession, sale, use or distribution of drugs to
\nwhich this Part applies, and the cultivation of plants from which such drugs are derived;
\n(b) prescribe measures to be taken for the eradication of plants, to which regulations made
\nunder paragraph (a) apply, found to be growing wild.
\n(2) Any person who contravenes any provision of regulations made in terms of subsection (1) shall be
\nguilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level twelve or to imprisonment for a period not
\nexceeding ten years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
\n[inserted by Act 22 of 2001 with effect from 10 September, 2002]
\nPART III
\nPREPARED OPIUM AND PREPARED INDIAN HEMP
\n[repealed by Act 23 of 2004 with effect from the 1st July, 2006]
\nPART IV
\nMEDICINAL OPIUM, COCAINE, MORPHINE AND OTHER DRUGS
\n10 Application of this Part
\n(1) Save as is provided in Part V, the drugs to which this Part applies are the drugs specified in the
\nSchedule.
\n(2)
\n[repealed by Act 23 of 2004 with effect from the 1st July, 2006]
\n(3) The Minister may, by statutory instrument, apply this Part, with such modifications as may be
\nspecified, to any of the following drugs\u2014
\n(a) methylmorphine (commonly known as codeine); and
\n(b) ethylmorphine;
\nand their respective salts.
\n(4) If it is made to appear to the Minister that a finding with respect to a preparation containing any of
\nthe drugs to which this Part applies has, in pursuance of article 8 of the Geneva Convention (No.1),
\nbeen communicated by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations to the parties to the
\nsaid Convention, the Minister may, by statutory instrument, declare that this Part shall, as from such
\ndate as may be specified in the notice, cease to apply to the preparation specified therein.
\n11 Restriction on import and export of drugs to which this Part applies
\n(1) No person shall import into or export from Zimbabwe any drugs to which this Part applies, except
\nunder and in accordance with the terms of a licence issued by the Minister.
\n(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not
\nexceeding level twelve or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding ten years or to both such fine
\nand such imprisonment.
\n[inserted by Act 22 of 2001 with effect from 10 September, 2002]
\n12 Power to control manufacture, sale, etc., of drugs to which this Part applies
\n(1) For the purpose of preventing the improper use of the drugs to which this Part applies, the Minister
\nmay by regulation prohibit, control or restrict the manufacture, sale, possession or distribution of those
\ndrugs and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing\u2014
\n(a) prohibit the manufacture of any such drug except on premises licensed for the purpose by
\nthe Minister and subject to any conditions specified in the licence;
\n(b) prohibit the manufacture, sale or distribution of any such drug except by persons licensed
\nor otherwise authorized under the regulations by the Minister and subject to any conditions
\nspecified in the licence or authority;
\n(c) regulate the issue of prescriptions containing any such drug and the dispensing of any
\nsuch prescriptions;
\n(d) require persons engaged in the manufacture, sale or distribution of any such drug to keep
\nsuch books and furnish such information either in writing or otherwise as may be prescribed
\nby the regulations.
\n(2) Regulations made under this section shall provide for authorizing a person lawfully carrying on
\nbusiness in accordance with any law relating to pharmacy and poisons as an authorized seller of
\npoisons\u2014
\n(a) in the ordinary course of his retail business to manufacture, at any premises duly
\nregistered under any such law, any preparation, admixture or extract of a drug to which this
\nPart applies; or
\n(b) to carry on at any such premises as aforesaid the business of retailing, dispensing or
\ncompounding any such drug;
\nsubject to the power of the Minister to withdraw the authorization in the case of a person who has
\nbeen convicted of an offence against this Act and who cannot, in the opinion of the Minister, properly
\nbe allowed to carry on the business of manufacturing or selling or distributing, as the case may be,
\nany such drug.
\n(3) Nothing in any regulations made under this section shall be deemed to authorize the sale by retail
\nof poisons by a person who is not qualified in that behalf under or otherwise than in accordance with
\nany law relating to pharmacy and poisons or to be in derogation of practitioner any such law
\nprohibiting, restricting or regulating the sale of poisons.
\n(4) Any person who contravenes any provision of regulations made in terms of this section shall be
\nguilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level twelve or to imprisonment for a period not
\nexceeding ten years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
\n[inserted by Act 22 of 2001 with effect from 10 September, 2002]
\nPART V
\nCONTROL OF DANGEROUS DRUGS
\n[substituted by Act 23 of 2004 with effect from the 1st July, 2006]
\n13 Interpretation in Part V
\nIn this Part\u2014
\n\u201cthe 1961 Convention\u201d means the single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, as amended by the
\n1972 Protocol Amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961;
\n\u201cthe 1971 Convention\u201d means the Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971;
\n\u201cthe 1988 Convention\u201d means the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs
\nand Psychotropic Substances, 1988;
\n\u201cdangerous drug\u201d has the meaning given to that term in section 155 of the Criminal Law
\nCode[Chapter 9:23];
\n\u201cdangerous drugs crime\u201d means a crime specified in Chapter VII (\u201cCrimes Involving Dangerous
\nDrugs\u201d) of the Criminal Law Code[Chapter 9:23];
\n\u201cdeal in\u201d, in relation to a dangerous drug, includes to sell or to perform any act, whether as a
\nprincipal, agent, carrier, messenger or otherwise, in connection with the delivery, collection,
\nimportation, exportation, trans-shipment, supply, administration, manufacture, cultivation,
\nprocurement or transmission of such drug;
\n\u201cpolice district\u201d means an area designated by the Commissioner of Police as a police district for the
\npurposes of the administration of the Police Force;
\n\u201cscheduled drug\u201d means a drug specified in Part I or Part II of the Schedule and the term \u201c Part I
\nscheduled drug \u201d shall be construed accordingly.
\n14 Specification of dangerous drugs
\n(1) Part I of the Schedule specifies dangerous drugs in compliance with the 1961, 1971 and 1988
\nConventions
\n(2) Part II of the Schedule specifies other dangerous drugs.
\n(3) If it appears to the Minister that any derivative of morphine or cocaine or of any salts of morphine
\nor cocaine or any alkaloid of opium or any other drug of whatever kind not specified in Part I of the
\nSchedule\u2014
\n(a) is or is likely to be productive, if improperly used, of ill effects substantially of the same
\ncharacter or nature as or analogous to those produced by morphine or cocaine; or
\n(b) is capable of being converted into a substance which is likely to be productive, if
\nimproperly used, of such effects;
\nhe may, by notice in a statutory instrument, after consultation with the Authority, amend Part I of the
\nSchedule by specifying such derivative or alkaloid or drug.
\n(4) If it is made to appear to the Minister that, in pursuance of article 12 of the 1988 Convention, a
\ndecision by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs of the Economic and Social Council of the United
\nNations to include or delete from the annex to that Convention any substance has been
\ncommunicated by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to the parties to that Convention, the
\nMinister may, by notice in a statutory instrument, amend Part I of the Schedule by specifying or
\ndeleting such substance as a dangerous drug, as the case may be.
\n(5) Whenever the Authority considers it necessary or desirable in the public interest that any drug,
\nother than one specified in accordance with the 1988 Convention, should be prohibited absolutely, it
\nmay, by notice in a statutory instrument, after consultation with the Minister, amend *Part II of the
\nSchedule by specifying such drug, and may in like manner amend or revoke such specification.
\n[See this *Part below repealed and substituted by SI 93\/2010 Amendment Regulations (No.8) notified in terms of
\nthe above subsection (5) with effect from the 14th May, 2010.]
\n14A Restriction on import and export of dangerous drugs
\n(1) No person shall import into or export from Zimbabwe\u2014
\n(a) coca leaves, cannabis plant, raw opium or any drug specified in Part I of the Schedule
\nexcept under and in accordance with the terms of a licence issued by the Authority;
\n(b) prepared opium, prepared cannabis, cannabis resin or any drug specified in Part II of the
\nSchedule.
\n(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of unlawful dealing in a dangerous
\ndrug as provided in section 156 of the Criminal Law Code[Chapter 9:23].
\n(3) If at any time the importation into a foreign country of a dangerous drug referred to in paragraph
\n(a) of subsection (1) is prohibited or restricted by the laws of that country, there shall, while that
\nprohibition or restriction is in force, be attached to every licence which is issued under this Act
\nauthorising the export of that drug from Zimbabwe, such conditions as appear necessary for
\npreventing or restricting, as the case may be, the exportation of that drug from Zimbabwe to that
\ncountry during such time as the importation of that drug into that country is so prohibited or restricted,
\nand any such licences issued before the prohibition or restriction came into force shall, if the Minister
\nby order so directs, be deemed to be subject to the like conditions.
\n14B Authority may restrict lawful possession, etc., of dangerous drugs in
\ncertain cases
\n(1) If any person who is a medical, dental or veterinary practitioner or pharmaceutical chemist or
\nother person who is authorised in terms of section 161 (\u201cPersons who may lawfully possess, deal in or
\nuse dangerous drugs\u201d) of the Criminal Law Code [Chapter 9:23] to lawfully possess, deal in or use a
\ndangerous drug\u2014
\n(a) is convicted of a dangerous drugs crime or an offence under the repealed Act or this Part;
\nor
\n(b) is considered by the Authority to be prescribing, administering or supplying any Part I
\nscheduled drug in an irresponsible manner;
\nthe Authority may, subject to this section, issue a direction to that person prohibiting him from
\nacquiring, possessing, prescribing, administering, manufacturing, compounding or supplying, as may
\nbe appropriate, such Part I scheduled drug for such period of time as the Authority shall specify in the
\ndirection.
\n(2) Before issuing any direction under subsection (1) the Authority shall direct the Director-General to
\ngive written notice to the person concerned of its intention to issue the direction.
\n(3) A notice given under subsection (2) shall\u2014
\n(a) specify the terms of the proposed direction and the grounds on which the Authority proposes to
\nissue it;
\n(b) indicate that the person to whom it is directed may within a calendar month of the receipt of the
\nnotice submit to the Director-General any comments he may wish to put forward in connection with
\nthe matter.
\n(4) If\u2014
\n(a) no comments are submitted under paragraph (b) of subsection (3); or
\n(b) after consideration of any comments submitted under paragraph (b) of subsection (3) the
\nAuthority decides to issue the direction;
\nthe Authority may direct the Director-General to issue the direction.
\n(5) any person aggrieved by a decision of the Authority to issue a direction under subsection (1) may,
\nwithin 30 days after the date of that decision, appeal to the Administrative Court, but in such case the
\ndirection shall continue to have effect until the appeal is determined.
\n(6) Any person subject to a direction issued under subsection (1) who contravenes the terms of the
\ndirection shall be guilty of contravening section 156 (\u201cUnlawful dealing in dangerous drugs\u201d) or 157
\n(\u201cUnlawful possession or use of dangerous drugs\u201d) of the Criminal Law Code [Chapter 9:23] with
\nrespect to the acquisition, possession, prescription, administration, manufacture, compounding or
\nsupply of the Part I scheduled drug specified in the direction.
\n14C Regulations under Part V
\n(1) For the purpose of preventing the improper use of dangerous drugs, the Minister may by
\nregulation prohibit, control or restrict the cultivation, manufacture, sale, possession or distribution of
\nthose drugs and, in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing\u2014
\n(a) prohibit, control or restrict the cultivation, production, possession, sale, use or distribution
\nof coca bushes, cannabis plants and raw opium;
\n(b) prescribe measures to be taken for the eradication of plants, to which regulations made
\nunder paragraph (a) apply, found to be growing wild;
\n(c) prohibit the manufacture of a Part I scheduled drug except on premises licensed for the
\npurpose by the Authority and subject to any terms and conditions specified in the licence;
\n(d) prohibit the manufacture, sale or distribution of a Part I scheduled drug except by persons
\nlicensed or otherwise authorized under the regulations;
\n(e) require precautions for the safe custody of Part I scheduled drugs;
\n(f) require the packaging and labelling of Part I scheduled drugs and specify the manner of
\nsuch packaging and labelling;
\n(g) regulate the transport of Part I scheduled drugs and the methods used for destroying or
\notherwise disposing of such drugs when no longer required;
\n(h) regulate the issuing of prescriptions containing any Part I scheduled drug and the supply
\nof such drugs on prescription and the dispensing of any such prescriptions;
\n(i) require persons issuing or dispensing prescriptions containing Part I scheduled drugs to
\nfurnish to the Authority such information relating to those prescriptions as may be prescribed;
\n(j) require persons engaged in the manufacture, sale and distribution of any Part I scheduled
\ndrug to keep such books and furnish such information, either in writing or otherwise, as may
\nbe prescribed;
\n(k) require any medical practitioner treating a person whom he considers, or has reasonable
\ngrounds to suspect, is addicted to any dangerous drug, to furnish such particulars concerning
\nthat person to the Permanent Secretary responsible for health as may be prescribed;
\n(l) prohibit any medical practitioner from administering, supplying or authorising the
\nadministration and supply to persons addicted to any dangerous drug such drug, and from
\nprescribing for such persons such drug, except under and in accordance with the terms of a
\npermit issued by the Permanent Secretary responsible for health.
\n(m) regulate the fees payable for the issue or renewal or any licence, application or thing
\ndone in terms of this Part;
\n(n) make any contravention of the regulations an offence and impose a fine not exceeding
\nlevel six for any such contravention.
\n(2) Regulations made under this section shall provide for authorising a person lawfully carrying on
\nbusiness as a pharmaceutical chemist\u2014
\n(a) in the ordinary course of his retail business to manufacture, at any premises registered under
\nPart VI, any preparation, admixture or extract of a Part I scheduled drug;
\n(b) to carry on at any such premises the business of retailing, dispensing or compounding any such
\ndrug;
\nsubject to the power of the Authority to withdraw the authorisation in the case of a person who has
\nbeen convicted of a dangerous drugs crime, and who cannot, in the opinion of the Authority, properly
\nbe allowed to carry on the business of a manufacturing or selling or distributing, as the case may be,
\nsuch a drug.
\n14D Powers of search, seizure and forfeiture
\n(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other enactment, and without
\nderogation from section sixteen, if any inspector, customs officer, or police officer above the rank of
\nsergeant (or below the rank of sergeant with the written authorisation of a police officer above the
\nrank of sergeant) has reasonable grounds for believing that any person is in unlawful possession of
\nany dangerous drug, he may, without a search warrant\u2014
\n(a) enter upon any land where such person is believed to be, and there require him to produce for
\nhis inspection such dangerous drug; or
\n(b) search such person or any animal in his possession, and enter and search any land, building,
\nvehicle, aircraft, train, vessel, or boat in the possession or use of such person:
\nProvided that\u2014
\n(i) a person shall be searched only by a person of like sex; and
\n(ii) such search shall be done with the strictest regard to decency and decorum;
\nand seize any dangerous drug in the possession of such person and, unless he is satisfied that such
\nperson will appear and answer any charge which may be preferred against him, arrest and detain
\nhim.
\n(2) Any inspector, customs officer or police officer above the rank of sergeant (or below the rank of
\nsergeant with the written authorisation of a police officer above the rank of sergeant) may at any time
\nenter upon and inspect any land, building or other structure on or in which plants, from which
\ndangerous drugs are derived, may be found, for the purpose of ascertaining if any such plants are
\nbeing cultivated in contravention of this Part or Chapter VII (\u201cCrimes involving dangerous drugs\u201d) of
\nthe Criminal Law Code [Chapter 9:23].
\n(3) If on any search or inspection made in terms of this section any dangerous drug, pipe, receptacle
\nor appliance for smoking or using the same or any plant which it is suspected upon reasonable
\ngrounds is being cultivated in contravention of this Part or Chapter VII (\u201cCrimes involving dangerous
\ndrugs\u201d) of the Criminal Law Code [Chapter 9:23]is found, it may be seized and removed, together with
\nany books, accounts or documents relating thereto.
\n(4) Any person who is arrested and detained and any dangerous drug or article which is seized in
\nterms of subsection (1) or (3) shall be taken as soon as practicable before a court of competent
\njurisdiction to be dealt with according to law.
\n(5) Any person who resists, hinders or obstructs an inspector or other person in the lawful exercise of
\nhis powers under this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level five
\nor to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
\n(6) If on the trial of any person for contravening or failing to comply with any provision of this Act or
\nany condition of any authority or licence issued thereunder it is proved that any drug, pipe, receptacle,
\nappliance or plant seized under this section was produced, kept, used, sold, distributed or cultivated
\nin contravention of this Act, it shall be forfeited to the State.
\n14E Forfeiture on conviction, and prohibition from driving and flying
\n(1) Where any person is convicted of any dangerous drugs crime the court\u2014
\n(a) shall order that any drug to which the conviction relates be forfeited to the State, unless
\nthe drug is further required as an exhibit at a trial; and
\n(b) may order that any vehicle, aircraft, vessel, boat, animal, receptacle or thing in or upon
\nwhich such drug was found or was used for the purpose of or in connection with such drug,
\nbe forfeited to the State, and section 62 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act [Chapter
\n9:07] shall thereupon apply, mutatis mutandis, in respect of the vehicle, aircraft, vessel, boat,
\nanimal, receptacle, container or thing.
\n(2) If it is established to the satisfaction of the court convicting a person of a dangerous drugs crime
\nthat the convicted person used any motor vehicle or aircraft to convey the drug to which the conviction
\nrelates, the court may order that the convicted person or, where the motor vehicle was driven or
\naircraft was flown by another person who was a participant or accomplice in or accessory to the
\ncrime, such other person, be prohibited from driving all classes of motor vehicles or flying all types of
\naircraft for a period not exceeding 15 years, as the case may be, and the appropriate provisions of
\nthe Road Traffic Act [Chapter 13:11] or the Civil Aviation Act [Chapter 13:16] shall apply, mutatis
\nmutandis, in respect of any such prohibition.
\n14F Safe custody of forfeited dangerous drugs
\n(1) Upon the conclusion of criminal proceedings resulting in the conviction of a person of a
\ndangerous drugs crime, the court shall order that any dangerous drugs forfeited to the State, other
\nthan cannabis, be delivered forthwith to the police officer in command of the police district where the
\ndrugs were seized for safe custody, and shall ensure that such police officer and the Director-General
\nare given full particulars of such drugs, including their quantity and any other relevant information.
\n(2) Pending their destruction in terms of section fourteen G, the Director-General shall store any
\ndrugs delivered to him under subsection (1) in a place of maximum security under his personal
\ncontrol, free from contamination by moisture or dust, and shall protect them from access by any other
\nperson, and keep and maintain them in such a safe manner as to avoid and prevent any deterioration
\nwhatsoever.
\n14G Destruction of forfeited dangerous drugs and articles
\n(1) Within 7 days of the receipt from the court of any consignment of forfeited dangerous drugs the
\npolice officer in command of the police district to whom any dangerous drugs are delivered in terms of
\nsection fourteen F (hereafter in this section called \u201c the custodian police officer \u201d) shall
\ncommunicate in writing to the Commissioner General of Police, the Director-General, the
\nCommissioner-General of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority and the Attorney-General, the full
\nparticulars of such drugs, including their quantity and all other relevant information, which shall, in
\nevery material respect, correspond strictly with the particulars furnished to the custodian police officer
\nand the Director-General by the court at the time of delivery to him of the forfeited dangerous drugs.
\n(2) Within 14 days of the written communication referred to in subsection (1), the custodian police
\nofficer shall appoint a date and time, which shall not be before the expiry of the period within which an
\nappeal against the conviction concerned may be noted, for the total destruction by incineration of
\nsuch drugs:
\nProvided that, where an appeal has been noted, the drugs shall not be destroyed until such time as
\nthe appeal has been abandoned or determined, whereupon this subsection shall apply.
\n(3) For the purposes of subsection (2) there is hereby constituted a panel comprising a police officer
\nof or above the rank of superintendent designated by the Commissioner of Police, a senior customs
\nofficer designated by the Commissioner-General of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority, the Director-
\nGeneral or an inspector designated by him and a senior official of the Ministry responsible for justice
\ndesignated by the Attorney-General, who shall, if they so decide whether on their own initiative or at
\nthe request of the custodian police officer concerned, assist the custodian police officer in the
\ndestruction of all dangerous drugs, other than cannabis plants, forfeited to the State.
\n(4) On the date and time appointed by the custodian police officer under subsection (2), the panel
\nreferred to in subsection (3) may attend to the destruction by incineration of the drugs concerned in
\nthe full view and presence of each other and, immediately thereafter, shall sign a joint declaration in
\nthe prescribed form, attesting to the total destruction of the drugs.
\n(5) Within 14 days of the destruction of any dangerous drugs forfeited to the State, the Director-
\nGeneral shall cause to be published in the Gazette for public information the joint declaration referred
\nto in subsection (4).
\n(6) Whenever the custodian police officer is prevented by illness or other reasonable cause from
\ndischarging his functions under this section, such functions shall be discharged by any police officer
\nof or above the rank of sergeant designated by the custodian police officer for that purpose.
\n(7) Cannabis or other article forfeited under this Part shall, unless the court otherwise directs, be
\nburned or otherwise destroyed in the presence of a specified police officer.
\n14H Forfeiture on acquittal or withdrawal of charge
\nAt the conclusion of any proceedings in connection with a dangerous drugs crime, resulting in the
\naccused being acquitted or the charge against him being withdrawn or otherwise dismissed, the court
\nshall order that any drug, other than cannabis, which was seized in connection with the proceedings,
\nshall be forfeited to the State, and sections fourteenF and fourteenG shall apply, mutatis mutandis, in
\nrelation to the drug:
\nProvided that, if the drug is further required as an exhibit at a trial, this section shall not apply in
\nrelation to the drug.
\n14J Forfeiture where no criminal proceedings are instituted
\nIf any dangerous drug, other than cannabis, has been seized by a police officer or any other public
\nofficer and no criminal proceedings are instituted in connection therewith and the drug is not further
\nrequired as an exhibit at a trial, the drug shall be forfeited to the State and the police officer or other
\npublic officer concerned shall deliver the drug to the Director-General as though the court had made
\nan order in respect of that drug under section fourteenG, and thereafter section fourteenH and shall
\napply, mutatis mutandis, in relation to the drug.
\nPART VI
\nGENERAL
\n15 Appointment of inspectors
\n(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Minister shall appoint 1 or more inspectors for the purpose of
\nenforcing this Act.
\n[ See Appointments gazetted on the 24th June, 2011 by GN 252\/11]
\n(2) No person shall be qualified for appointment as an inspector unless he is a person duly authorized
\nto act as a compounder or dispenser of poisons or drugs in terms of any law relating to pharmacy and
\npoisons.
\n16 Powers of inspection
\n(1) Any inspector shall, for enforcing this Act, have power at all reasonable times to enter the
\npremises on which any pharmaceutical chemist, general dealer or licensed manufacturer of any drug
\nto which this Act applies carries on business, and any premises owned or occupied by any person
\nauthorized to be in possession of any such drug, and to enter any other premises in which he has
\nreasonable cause to suspect that an offence against this Act has been committed, and in either case
\nshall have power to make such examination and inquiry and do such other things, including the
\nchecking of stocks and the taking, on payment therefor, of samples as may be necessary for
\nascertaining whether this Act is being complied with.
\n(2) All books, records and documents required to be kept by any person under this Act shall be open
\nto inspection by any police officer or by any other member of a police force authorized in writing by a
\nmagistrate or by a police officer.
\n(3) If any person wilfully delays or obstructs an inspector or a member of a police force in the exercise
\nof his powers under this section, or refuses to allow any sample to be taken in accordance with this
\nsection, or fails without reasonable excuse to give any information which he is duly required under this
\nsection to give, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level five or to
\nimprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
\n[amended by Act 22 of 2001 with effect from 10 September, 2002]
\n17 [ repealed by Act 23 of 2004 with effect from the 1st July, 2006.]
\n18 Persons upon whom powers of inspection, etc., are conferred to produce
\nproof of identity
\nAny person upon whom powers of inspection, search, seizure or forfeiture are conferred under this
\nAct who fails on demand to produce\u2014
\n(a) in the case of an inspector, a certificate under the hand of the Secretary of his
\nappointment as an inspector;
\n(b) in the case of\u2014
\n(i) a customs officer; or
\n(ii) a specified police officer;
\nwho is not in uniform, proof of his identity;
\n(c) in the case of a police officer authorized in writing by a magistrate or by a specified police
\nofficer, to exercise those powers, his authority in writing;
\nshall not, save as is provided in subsection (4) of section seventeen, thereafter be entitled to exercise
\nthose powers until he has produced that certificate, proof of identity or authority in writing, as the case
\nmay be.
\n19 Offences and penalties
\n(1) Subject to this section, any person\u2014
\n(a)
\n[repealed by Act 22 of 2001 with effect from 10 September, 2002]
\n(b) who acts in contravention of or fails to comply with the conditions of a licence issued or
\nauthority granted under or in pursuance of this Act; or
\n(c) who for the purpose of obtaining, whether for himself or for any other person, the issue,
\ngrant or renewal of any such licence or authority as aforesaid makes a declaration or
\nstatement which is false in any particular, or knowingly utters, produces or makes use of any
\nsuch declaration or statement or a document containing the same; or
\n(d)
\n[repealed by Act 22 of 2001 with effect from 10 September, 2002]
\nshall be guilty of an offence and, subject to subsection (3), liable to a fine not exceeding level seven
\nor to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
\n[amended by Act 22 of 2001 with effect from 10 September, 2002]
\n(2) (3)
\n[repealed by Act 23 of 2004 with effect from the 1st July, 2006.]]
\n(4)
\n[repealed by Act 22 of 2001 with effect from 10 September, 2002]]
\n(5) Any person who is convicted of any offence in terms of subsection (1) which involves a
\ncontravention of any provision of this Act relating to the keeping of books or the issuing or dispensing
\nof prescriptions containing any drug to which this Act applies shall be liable to a fine not exceeding\u2014
\n(a) for a first such offence, level four or 8imprisonment for a period not exceeding thee
\nmonths or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
\n(b) for a second and subsequent such offence, level six or imprisonment for a period not
\nexceeding twelve months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
\n[amended by Act 22 of 2001 with effect from 10 September, 2002]
\n(6) Indian hemp or other article forfeited under this Act shall, unless the court otherwise directs, be
\nburned or otherwise destroyed in the presence of a specified police officer.
\n(7)
\n[repealed by Act 23 of 2004 with effect from the 1st July, 2006.]
\n19A Offences involving juveniles
\nWhere an offence of which a person is convicted under this Act involves\u2014
\n(a) unlawfully supplying a drug to or procuring a drug for a person under the age of 18 years,
\nor offering so to supply or procure a drug; or
\n(b) inciting or influencing a person under the age of 18 years unlawfully to smoke or use any
\ndrug in contravention of Part III;
\nthe court shall have regard to that fact as an aggravating feature when imposing sentence on the
\nconvicted person.
\n[inserted by Act 22 of 2001 with effect from 10 September, 2002]
\n20 to 25
\n[repealed by Act 23 of 2004 with effect from the 1st July, 2006.]
\n26 Power of arrest
\nAny police officer may arrest without warrant a person who has committed, or attempted to commit, or
\nis reasonably suspected by the police officer of having committed or attempted to commit an offence
\nagainst this Act if he has reasonable grounds for believing that that person will abscond unless
\narrested, or if the name and address of that person are unknown to, and cannot be ascertained by,
\nhim.
\n27 Licences and authorities
\n(1) A licence or authority issued for the purposes of this Act by the Minister may be issued on such
\nterms and subject to such conditions, including, in the case of a licence, the payment of a fee, as the
\nMinister may fix.
\n(2) Whenever the Minister is empowered under any provision of this Act to issue any licence or
\nauthority, he may delegate to the Secretary such power, subject to the right of any person to whom
\nthe issue of such licence or authority has been refused to appeal in writing to the Minister against
\nsuch refusal.
\nSCHEDULE (Section 14)
\nSCHEDULED DRUGS
\n[Substituted by Act 23 of 2004 with effect from the 1st July, 2006]
\nPART I
\nDANGEROUS DRUGS SPECIFIED IN COMPLIANCE WITH
\n1961, 1971 AND 1988 CONVENTIONS
\n1. The following substances or plants, namely\u2014
\nAcetorphine; Acetyldihydrocodeine; Acetylmethadol; Alfentanil; Allylprodine; Alphacetylmethadol;
\nAlphameprodine; Alphamethadol; Alphaprodine; Anileridine.
\nBenzethidine; Benzylmorphine; Betacetylmethadol; Betameprodine; Betamethadol; Betaprod;
\nBezitramide.
\nDesomorphine; Dextromoramide; Dextropropoxyphene; Diampromide; Diethylthiambutene; Difenoxin
\n(or diphenoxylic acid), except mixtures containing, per dosage unit, not more than 0,5 milligrams of
\ndifenoxin, calculated as the base, and a quantity of atropine sulphate equal to at 5,0 per cent of the
\nquantity of difenoxin, calculated as the base, which is present in the mixture; Dihydromorphine;
\nDimenoxadol; Dimepheptanol; Dimethylthiambutene; Dioxaphetylbutyrate; Diphenoxylate, except
\npreparations containing not more than 2,5 milligrams of diphenoxylate, calculated as the base, and
\nnot less than 25 micrograms of atropine sulphate per dosage unit; Dronabinol [(-) transdelta-9-
\ntetrahydrocannabinol]; Drotebanol.
\nEcgonine and the esters and derivatives thereof which are convertible to ecgonine and cocaine;
\nEthylmethylthiambutene; Ethylmorphine; Etonitazene; Etorphine; Etoxeridine.
\nFentanyl; Furethidine.
\nHydrocodone (dihydrocodeinone); Hydromorphinol (14- hydroxydihydromorphine); Hydromorphone
\n(dihydromorphinone); Hydroxypethidine.
\nIsomethadone.
\nKetobemidone.
\nLevomoramide; Levophenacylmorphan; Levorphanol.
\nMefenorex; Metazocine; Methadone; Methadone-intermediate; Methorphan, including
\nlevomethorphan and racemethorphan, but excluding dextromethorphan; Methyldesorphine;
\nMethyldihydromorphine; Methylphenidate and the derivatives thereof; Metopon; Moramide-
\nintermediate; Morpheridine; Morphine, except preparations and mixtures of morphine containing not
\nmore than 0,2 per cent of morphine, calculated as anhydrous morphine; Morphine methobromide and
\nother pentavalent nitrogen morphine derivatives; Morphine-N-oxide and the derivatives thereof.;
\nMyrophine (myristylbenzylmorphine).
\nNicocodine; Nicodicodine; Nicomorphine; Noracymethadol; Norcodeine, except preparations and
\nmixtures containing not more than 20 milligrams norcodeine per recommended or prescribed dose;
\nNorlevorphanol; Normethadone; Normorphine (demethylmorphine or N-demethylated morphine);
\nNorpipanone.
\nOpium and opiates and any salt, compound, derivative or preparation of opium or opiates, whether
\nobtained directly or indirectly by extraction from material or substances obtained from plants, or
\nobtained independently by chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical
\nsynthesis, except mixture containing not more than 0,2 per cent or morphine, calculated as anhydrous
\nmorphine; Opium-poppy and poppy straw, whether obtained directly or indirectly by extraction from
\nmaterial or substances obtained from plants, or whether obtained independently by chemical
\nsynthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis; Oxycodone (14-
\nhydroxydihydrocodeinone or dihydrohydroxycodeinone); Oxymorphone (14-
\nhydroxydihydromorphinone or dihydrohydroxymorphinone).
\nPethidine, pethidine-intermediate A, pethidine-intermediate B and pethidine-intermediate C;
\nPhenadoxone; Phenampromide; Phenazocine; Phenomorphan; Phenoperidine; Piminodine;
\nPiritramide; Proheptazine; Properidine; Propiram.
\nRacemoramide; Racemorphan.
\nSufentanil.
\nThebacon; Thebaine; Tilidine; Trimeperidine.
\n2. Unless expressly excluded, all substances included in this Part include the following:
\n(a) the isomers of the specified substances, where the existence of such isomers is possible;
\n(b) the esters and ethers of the specified substances and of the isomers referred to in
\nsubparagraph (a), as well as the isomers of such esters and ethers, where the existence of
\nsuch esters, ethers and isomers is possible;
\n(c) the salts of the specified substances, of the isomers referred to in subparagraph (a) and
\nof the esters, ethers and isomers referred to in subparagraph (b), as well as the isomers of
\nsuch salts, where the existence of such salts and isomers is possible; and
\n(d) all preparations and mixtures of the specified substances and of the isomers, esters,
\nethers and salts referred to in this paragraph.
\nPART II
\n[Substituted by SI 93\/2010 Amendment Regulations (No.8) notified in terms of Section 14(5) above with effect
\nfrom the 14th May, 2010.]
\nPROHIBITED DRUGS
\nBufotenine;
\nBrolamfetamine (DOB);
\nCatha, also known as Abyssinian. African. or Arabian Tea. Kat. Kath. Khat. or Miraa;
\nCathine. all isomers and their stereochemical variants:
\nCathinone, all isomers and their stereochemical variants:
\nCocaine, also known as Basuco. Bazooka. Bernice. Blow. C. Charlie. Coke. Crack. Flake, Girl. Gold
\ndust. Her, Lady, Leal. Nose candy. Pasta. Rock. She. Snow, Space dust, Toot. White girl. White Lady:
\nDET;
\nDMA;
\nDMHP;
\nDMT;
\nDOET;
\nEticyclidine (PCE);
\nEtryptamine;
\nGlutethimide;
\nLysergamide;
\nLysergide and other N-alkyle derivatives of lasergamide. including the drug commonly known as LSD.
\nbut not including methysergide malcate:
\nMescaline;
\nMethcathinone;
\n4-methylaminorex;
\nMMDA;
\n4-MTA;
\nMethaqualone. also known as Mandrax:
\nMethylenedioxymethamphetamine, also known as Adam, E Ecstasy, M&M. MDM. MDMA and XTC:
\nMethyprylon;
\nN.N-Diethyltryptamine;
\nParahexyl;
\nPMA;
\nPsilocine, psilotsin;
\nPsilocybine;
\nRolicyclidine (PHP, PCPY);
\nSTP, DOM;
\nTenamfetamine (MDA);
\nTenocyclidine (TCP);
\nTetrahydrocannabinols, all isomers and tier stereochemical variants;
\nTMA; and
\nAny stereoisomeric form, ester, ether or salt of a substance prohibited under this Act and any
\npreparation containing any proportion of the above-mentioned drugs.
\n1 Short title
\nThis Act may be cited as the Dangerous Drugs Act [Chapter 15:02].
\n2 Interpretation
\n(1) In this Act\u2014
\n\u201ccorresponding law\u201d means a law stated in a certificate purporting to be issued by or on behalf of
\nthe government of a country outside Zimbabwe to be a law providing for the control and regulation in
\nthat country of the manufacture, sale, use, export and import of drugs in accordance with the Hague
\nConvention, the Geneva Convention (No. 1) and the Geneva Convention (No. 2);
\n\u201c Director-General \u201d means the Director-General of the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe
\nappointed in terms of section 26 of the Medicines and Allied Substances Control Act [Chapter 15:03];
\n\u201cGeneva Convention (No.1)\u201d means the International Opium Convention signed at Geneva on the
\n19th February, 1925;
\n\u201cGeneva Convention (No.2)\u201d means the International Convention for limiting the manufacture,
\nregulation and distribution of narcotic drugs signed at Geneva on the 13th July, 1931;
\n\u201cHague Convention\u201d means the International Opium Convention signed at the Hague on the 3rd
\nJanuary, 1912;
\n\u201cinspector\u201d means an inspector appointed in terms of section fifteen;
\n\u201cMinister\u201d means the Minister of Health and Child Welfare or any other Minister to whom the
\nPresident may, from time to time, assign the administration of this Act;
\n[By S.I. 161 of 2012 the Minister of Health and Child Welfare was re-assigned]
\n\u201cRegistrar\u201d
\n[Repealed by Act 1 of 1996 with effect from the 1st August, 1997.]
\n\u201cSecretary\u201d means the Secretary of the Ministry for which the Minister is responsible;
\n\u201cspecified police officer\u201d means any member of the Police Force of or above the rank of sergeant.
\n(2) In any certificate such as is referred to in the definition of \u201ccorresponding law\u201d in subsection (1),
\na statement as to the effect of the law mentioned in such certificate or a statement in any such
\ncertificate that any facts constitute an offence against that law shall be conclusive.
\n(3) Any word or expression to which a meaning has been assigned in Chapter VII (\u201cCrimes Involving
\nDangerous Drugs\u201d) of the Criminal Law Code shall have the same meaning when used in this Act.
\n[inserted by Act 23 of 2004 with effect from the 1st July, 2006]
\n3 Application of Part II
\nThis Part applies to any dangerous drug referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition of \u201c dangerous
\ndrug \u201d in section 155 of the Criminal Law Code [Chapter 9:23] (that is, any coca bush, coca leaf, raw
\nopium or cannabis plant).
\n[substituted by Act 23 of 2004 with effect from the 1st July, 2006]
\n4 . . . . .
\n5 . . . . .
\n[repealed by Act 23 of 2004 with effect from the 1st July, 2006]
\n6 Regulations
\n(1) The Minister may by regulation\u2014
\n(a) prohibit, control or restrict the production, possession, sale, use or distribution of drugs to
\nwhich this Part applies, and the cultivation of plants from which such drugs are derived;
\n(b) prescribe measures to be taken for the eradication of plants, to which regulations made
\nunder paragraph (a) apply, found to be growing wild.
\n(2) Any person who contravenes any provision of regulations made in terms of subsection (1) shall be
\nguilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level twelve or to imprisonment for a period not
\nexceeding ten years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
\n[inserted by Act 22 of 2001 with effect from 10 September, 2002]
\nPART III
\nPREPARED OPIUM AND PREPARED INDIAN HEMP
\n[repealed by Act 23 of 2004 with effect from the 1st July, 2006]
\n10 Application of this Part
\n(1) Save as is provided in Part V, the drugs to which this Part applies are the drugs specified in the
\nSchedule.
\n(2)
\n[repealed by Act 23 of 2004 with effect from the 1st July, 2006]
\n(3) The Minister may, by statutory instrument, apply this Part, with such modifications as may be
\nspecified, to any of the following drugs\u2014
\n(a) methylmorphine (commonly known as codeine); and
\n(b) ethylmorphine;
\nand their respective salts.
\n(4) If it is made to appear to the Minister that a finding with respect to a preparation containing any of
\nthe drugs to which this Part applies has, in pursuance of article 8 of the Geneva Convention (No.1),
\nbeen communicated by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations to the parties to the
\nsaid Convention, the Minister may, by statutory instrument, declare that this Part shall, as from such
\ndate as may be specified in the notice, cease to apply to the preparation specified therein.
\n11 Restriction on import and export of drugs to which this Part applies
\n(1) No person shall import into or export from Zimbabwe any drugs to which this Part applies, except
\nunder and in accordance with the terms of a licence issued by the Minister.
\n(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not
\nexceeding level twelve or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding ten years or to both such fine
\nand such imprisonment.
\n[inserted by Act 22 of 2001 with effect from 10 September, 2002]
\n12 Power to control manufacture, sale, etc., of drugs to which this Part applies
\n(1) For the purpose of preventing the improper use of the drugs to which this Part applies, the Minister
\nmay by regulation prohibit, control or restrict the manufacture, sale, possession or distribution of those
\ndrugs and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing\u2014
\n(a) prohibit the manufacture of any such drug except on premises licensed for the purpose by
\nthe Minister and subject to any conditions specified in the licence;
\n(b) prohibit the manufacture, sale or distribution of any such drug except by persons licensed
\nor otherwise authorized under the regulations by the Minister and subject to any conditions
\nspecified in the licence or authority;
\n(c) regulate the issue of prescriptions containing any such drug and the dispensing of any
\nsuch prescriptions;
\n(d) require persons engaged in the manufacture, sale or distribution of any such drug to keep
\nsuch books and furnish such information either in writing or otherwise as may be prescribed
\nby the regulations.
\n(2) Regulations made under this section shall provide for authorizing a person lawfully carrying on
\nbusiness in accordance with any law relating to pharmacy and poisons as an authorized seller of
\npoisons\u2014
\n(a) in the ordinary course of his retail business to manufacture, at any premises duly
\nregistered under any such law, any preparation, admixture or extract of a drug to which this
\nPart applies; or
\n(b) to carry on at any such premises as aforesaid the business of retailing, dispensing or
\ncompounding any such drug;
\nsubject to the power of the Minister to withdraw the authorization in the case of a person who has
\nbeen convicted of an offence against this Act and who cannot, in the opinion of the Minister, properly
\nbe allowed to carry on the business of manufacturing or selling or distributing, as the case may be,
\nany such drug.
\n(3) Nothing in any regulations made under this section shall be deemed to authorize the sale by retail
\nof poisons by a person who is not qualified in that behalf under or otherwise than in accordance with
\nany law relating to pharmacy and poisons or to be in derogation of practitioner any such law
\nprohibiting, restricting or regulating the sale of poisons.
\n(4) Any person who contravenes any provision of regulations made in terms of this section shall be
\nguilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level twelve or to imprisonment for a period not
\nexceeding ten years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
\n[inserted by Act 22 of 2001 with effect from 10 September, 2002]
\nPART V
\nCONTROL OF DANGEROUS DRUGS
\n[substituted by Act 23 of 2004 with effect from the 1st July, 2006]
\n13 Interpretation in Part V
\nIn this Part\u2014
\n\u201cthe 1961 Convention\u201d means the single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, as amended by the
\n1972 Protocol Amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961;
\n\u201cthe 1971 Convention\u201d means the Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971;
\n\u201cthe 1988 Convention\u201d means the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs
\nand Psychotropic Substances, 1988;
\n\u201cdangerous drug\u201d has the meaning given to that term in section 155 of the Criminal Law
\nCode[Chapter 9:23];
\n\u201cdangerous drugs crime\u201d means a crime specified in Chapter VII (\u201cCrimes Involving Dangerous
\nDrugs\u201d) of the Criminal Law Code[Chapter 9:23];
\n\u201cdeal in\u201d, in relation to a dangerous drug, includes to sell or to perform any act, whether as a
\nprincipal, agent, carrier, messenger or otherwise, in connection with the delivery, collection,
\nimportation, exportation, trans-shipment, supply, administration, manufacture, cultivation,
\nprocurement or transmission of such drug;
\n\u201cpolice district\u201d means an area designated by the Commissioner of Police as a police district for the
\npurposes of the administration of the Police Force;
\n\u201cscheduled drug\u201d means a drug specified in Part I or Part II of the Schedule and the term \u201c Part I
\nscheduled drug \u201d shall be construed accordingly.
\n14 Specification of dangerous drugs
\n(1) Part I of the Schedule specifies dangerous drugs in compliance with the 1961, 1971 and 1988
\nConventions
\n(2) Part II of the Schedule specifies other dangerous drugs.
\n(3) If it appears to the Minister that any derivative of morphine or cocaine or of any salts of morphine
\nor cocaine or any alkaloid of opium or any other drug of whatever kind not specified in Part I of the
\nSchedule\u2014
\n(a) is or is likely to be productive, if improperly used, of ill effects substantially of the same
\ncharacter or nature as or analogous to those produced by morphine or cocaine; or
\n(b) is capable of being converted into a substance which is likely to be productive, if
\nimproperly used, of such effects;
\nhe may, by notice in a statutory instrument, after consultation with the Authority, amend Part I of the
\nSchedule by specifying such derivative or alkaloid or drug.
\n(4) If it is made to appear to the Minister that, in pursuance of article 12 of the 1988 Convention, a
\ndecision by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs of the Economic and Social Council of the United
\nNations to include or delete from the annex to that Convention any substance has been
\ncommunicated by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to the parties to that Convention, the
\nMinister may, by notice in a statutory instrument, amend Part I of the Schedule by specifying or
\ndeleting such substance as a dangerous drug, as the case may be.
\n(5) Whenever the Authority considers it necessary or desirable in the public interest that any drug,
\nother than one specified in accordance with the 1988 Convention, should be prohibited absolutely, it
\nmay, by notice in a statutory instrument, after consultation with the Minister, amend *Part II of the
\nSchedule by specifying such drug, and may in like manner amend or revoke such specification.
\n[See this *Part below repealed and substituted by SI 93\/2010 Amendment Regulations (No.8) notified in terms of
\nthe above subsection (5) with effect from the 14th May, 2010.]
\n14A Restriction on import and export of dangerous drugs
\n(1) No person shall import into or export from Zimbabwe\u2014
\n(a) coca leaves, cannabis plant, raw opium or any drug specified in Part I of the Schedule
\nexcept under and in accordance with the terms of a licence issued by the Authority;
\n(b) prepared opium, prepared cannabis, cannabis resin or any drug specified in Part II of the
\nSchedule.
\n(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of unlawful dealing in a dangerous
\ndrug as provided in section 156 of the Criminal Law Code[Chapter 9:23].
\n(3) If at any time the importation into a foreign country of a dangerous drug referred to in paragraph
\n(a) of subsection (1) is prohibited or restricted by the laws of that country, there shall, while that
\nprohibition or restriction is in force, be attached to every licence which is issued under this Act
\nauthorising the export of that drug from Zimbabwe, such conditions as appear necessary for
\npreventing or restricting, as the case may be, the exportation of that drug from Zimbabwe to that
\ncountry during such time as the importation of that drug into that country is so prohibited or restricted,
\nand any such licences issued before the prohibition or restriction came into force shall, if the Minister
\nby order so directs, be deemed to be subject to the like conditions.
\n14B Authority may restrict lawful possession, etc., of dangerous drugs in
\ncertain cases
\n(1) If any person who is a medical, dental or veterinary practitioner or pharmaceutical chemist or
\nother person who is authorised in terms of section 161 (\u201cPersons who may lawfully possess, deal in or
\nuse dangerous drugs\u201d) of the Criminal Law Code [Chapter 9:23] to lawfully possess, deal in or use a
\ndangerous drug\u2014
\n(a) is convicted of a dangerous drugs crime or an offence under the repealed Act or this Part;
\nor
\n(b) is considered by the Authority to be prescribing, administering or supplying any Part I
\nscheduled drug in an irresponsible manner;
\nthe Authority may, subject to this section, issue a direction to that person prohibiting him from
\nacquiring, possessing, prescribing, administering, manufacturing, compounding or supplying, as may
\nbe appropriate, such Part I scheduled drug for such period of time as the Authority shall specify in the
\ndirection.
\n(2) Before issuing any direction under subsection (1) the Authority shall direct the Director-General to
\ngive written notice to the person concerned of its intention to issue the direction.
\n(3) A notice given under subsection (2) shall\u2014
\n(a) specify the terms of the proposed direction and the grounds on which the Authority proposes to
\nissue it;
\n(b) indicate that the person to whom it is directed may within a calendar month of the receipt of the
\nnotice submit to the Director-General any comments he may wish to put forward in connection with
\nthe matter.
\n(4) If\u2014
\n(a) no comments are submitted under paragraph (b) of subsection (3); or
\n(b) after consideration of any comments submitted under paragraph (b) of subsection (3) the
\nAuthority decides to issue the direction;
\nthe Authority may direct the Director-General to issue the direction.
\n(5) any person aggrieved by a decision of the Authority to issue a direction under subsection (1) may,
\nwithin 30 days after the date of that decision, appeal to the Administrative Court, but in such case the
\ndirection shall continue to have effect until the appeal is determined.
\n(6) Any person subject to a direction issued under subsection (1) who contravenes the terms of the
\ndirection shall be guilty of contravening section 156 (\u201cUnlawful dealing in dangerous drugs\u201d) or 157
\n(\u201cUnlawful possession or use of dangerous drugs\u201d) of the Criminal Law Code [Chapter 9:23] with
\nrespect to the acquisition, possession, prescription, administration, manufacture, compounding or
\nsupply of the Part I scheduled drug specified in the direction.
\n14C Regulations under Part V
\n(1) For the purpose of preventing the improper use of dangerous drugs, the Minister may by
\nregulation prohibit, control or restrict the cultivation, manufacture, sale, possession or distribution of
\nthose drugs and, in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing\u2014
\n(a) prohibit, control or restrict the cultivation, production, possession, sale, use or distribution
\nof coca bushes, cannabis plants and raw opium;
\n(b) prescribe measures to be taken for the eradication of plants, to which regulations made
\nunder paragraph (a) apply, found to be growing wild;
\n(c) prohibit the manufacture of a Part I scheduled drug except on premises licensed for the
\npurpose by the Authority and subject to any terms and conditions specified in the licence;
\n(d) prohibit the manufacture, sale or distribution of a Part I scheduled drug except by persons
\nlicensed or otherwise authorized under the regulations;
\n(e) require precautions for the safe custody of Part I scheduled drugs;
\n(f) require the packaging and labelling of Part I scheduled drugs and specify the manner of
\nsuch packaging and labelling;
\n(g) regulate the transport of Part I scheduled drugs and the methods used for destroying or
\notherwise disposing of such drugs when no longer required;
\n(h) regulate the issuing of prescriptions containing any Part I scheduled drug and the supply
\nof such drugs on prescription and the dispensing of any such prescriptions;
\n(i) require persons issuing or dispensing prescriptions containing Part I scheduled drugs to
\nfurnish to the Authority such information relating to those prescriptions as may be prescribed;
\n(j) require persons engaged in the manufacture, sale and distribution of any Part I scheduled
\ndrug to keep such books and furnish such information, either in writing or otherwise, as may
\nbe prescribed;
\n(k) require any medical practitioner treating a person whom he considers, or has reasonable
\ngrounds to suspect, is addicted to any dangerous drug, to furnish such particulars concerning
\nthat person to the Permanent Secretary responsible for health as may be prescribed;
\n(l) prohibit any medical practitioner from administering, supplying or authorising the
\nadministration and supply to persons addicted to any dangerous drug such drug, and from
\nprescribing for such persons such drug, except under and in accordance with the terms of a
\npermit issued by the Permanent Secretary responsible for health.
\n(m) regulate the fees payable for the issue or renewal or any licence, application or thing
\ndone in terms of this Part;
\n(n) make any contravention of the regulations an offence and impose a fine not exceeding
\nlevel six for any such contravention.
\n(2) Regulations made under this section shall provide for authorising a person lawfully carrying on
\nbusiness as a pharmaceutical chemist\u2014
\n(a) in the ordinary course of his retail business to manufacture, at any premises registered under
\nPart VI, any preparation, admixture or extract of a Part I scheduled drug;
\n(b) to carry on at any such premises the business of retailing, dispensing or compounding any such
\ndrug;
\nsubject to the power of the Authority to withdraw the authorisation in the case of a person who has
\nbeen convicted of a dangerous drugs crime, and who cannot, in the opinion of the Authority, properly
\nbe allowed to carry on the business of a manufacturing or selling or distributing, as the case may be,
\nsuch a drug.
\n14D Powers of search, seizure and forfeiture
\n(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other enactment, and without
\nderogation from section sixteen, if any inspector, customs officer, or police officer above the rank of
\nsergeant (or below the rank of sergeant with the written authorisation of a police officer above the
\nrank of sergeant) has reasonable grounds for believing that any person is in unlawful possession of
\nany dangerous drug, he may, without a search warrant\u2014
\n(a) enter upon any land where such person is believed to be, and there require him to produce for
\nhis inspection such dangerous drug; or
\n(b) search such person or any animal in his possession, and enter and search any land, building,
\nvehicle, aircraft, train, vessel, or boat in the possession or use of such person:
\nProvided that\u2014
\n(i) a person shall be searched only by a person of like sex; and
\n(ii) such search shall be done with the strictest regard to decency and decorum;
\nand seize any dangerous drug in the possession of such person and, unless he is satisfied that such
\nperson will appear and answer any charge which may be preferred against him, arrest and detain
\nhim.
\n(2) Any inspector, customs officer or police officer above the rank of sergeant (or below the rank of
\nsergeant with the written authorisation of a police officer above the rank of sergeant) may at any time
\nenter upon and inspect any land, building or other structure on or in which plants, from which
\ndangerous drugs are derived, may be found, for the purpose of ascertaining if any such plants are
\nbeing cultivated in contravention of this Part or Chapter VII (\u201cCrimes involving dangerous drugs\u201d) of
\nthe Criminal Law Code [Chapter 9:23].
\n(3) If on any search or inspection made in terms of this section any dangerous drug, pipe, receptacle
\nor appliance for smoking or using the same or any plant which it is suspected upon reasonable
\ngrounds is being cultivated in contravention of this Part or Chapter VII (\u201cCrimes involving dangerous
\ndrugs\u201d) of the Criminal Law Code [Chapter 9:23]is found, it may be seized and removed, together with
\nany books, accounts or documents relating thereto.
\n(4) Any person who is arrested and detained and any dangerous drug or article which is seized in
\nterms of subsection (1) or (3) shall be taken as soon as practicable before a court of competent
\njurisdiction to be dealt with according to law.
\n(5) Any person who resists, hinders or obstructs an inspector or other person in the lawful exercise of
\nhis powers under this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level five
\nor to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
\n(6) If on the trial of any person for contravening or failing to comply with any provision of this Act or
\nany condition of any authority or licence issued thereunder it is proved that any drug, pipe, receptacle,
\nappliance or plant seized under this section was produced, kept, used, sold, distributed or cultivated
\nin contravention of this Act, it shall be forfeited to the State.
\n14E Forfeiture on conviction, and prohibition from driving and flying
\n(1) Where any person is convicted of any dangerous drugs crime the court\u2014
\n(a) shall order that any drug to which the conviction relates be forfeited to the State, unless
\nthe drug is further required as an exhibit at a trial; and
\n(b) may order that any vehicle, aircraft, vessel, boat, animal, receptacle or thing in or upon
\nwhich such drug was found or was used for the purpose of or in connection with such drug,
\nbe forfeited to the State, and section 62 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act [Chapter
\n9:07] shall thereupon apply, mutatis mutandis, in respect of the vehicle, aircraft, vessel, boat,
\nanimal, receptacle, container or thing.
\n(2) If it is established to the satisfaction of the court convicting a person of a dangerous drugs crime
\nthat the convicted person used any motor vehicle or aircraft to convey the drug to which the conviction
\nrelates, the court may order that the convicted person or, where the motor vehicle was driven or
\naircraft was flown by another person who was a participant or accomplice in or accessory to the
\ncrime, such other person, be prohibited from driving all classes of motor vehicles or flying all types of
\naircraft for a period not exceeding 15 years, as the case may be, and the appropriate provisions of
\nthe Road Traffic Act [Chapter 13:11] or the Civil Aviation Act [Chapter 13:16] shall apply, mutatis
\nmutandis, in respect of any such prohibition.
\n14F Safe custody of forfeited dangerous drugs
\n(1) Upon the conclusion of criminal proceedings resulting in the conviction of a person of a
\ndangerous drugs crime, the court shall order that any dangerous drugs forfeited to the State, other
\nthan cannabis, be delivered forthwith to the police officer in command of the police district where the
\ndrugs were seized for safe custody, and shall ensure that such police officer and the Director-General
\nare given full particulars of such drugs, including their quantity and any other relevant information.
\n(2) Pending their destruction in terms of section fourteen G, the Director-General shall store any
\ndrugs delivered to him under subsection (1) in a place of maximum security under his personal
\ncontrol, free from contamination by moisture or dust, and shall protect them from access by any other
\nperson, and keep and maintain them in such a safe manner as to avoid and prevent any deterioration
\nwhatsoever.
\n14G Destruction of forfeited dangerous drugs and articles
\n(1) Within 7 days of the receipt from the court of any consignment of forfeited dangerous drugs the
\npolice officer in command of the police district to whom any dangerous drugs are delivered in terms of
\nsection fourteen F (hereafter in this section called \u201c the custodian police officer \u201d) shall
\ncommunicate in writing to the Commissioner General of Police, the Director-General, the
\nCommissioner-General of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority and the Attorney-General, the full
\nparticulars of such drugs, including their quantity and all other relevant information, which shall, in
\nevery material respect, correspond strictly with the particulars furnished to the custodian police officer
\nand the Director-General by the court at the time of delivery to him of the forfeited dangerous drugs.
\n(2) Within 14 days of the written communication referred to in subsection (1), the custodian police
\nofficer shall appoint a date and time, which shall not be before the expiry of the period within which an
\nappeal against the conviction concerned may be noted, for the total destruction by incineration of
\nsuch drugs:
\nProvided that, where an appeal has been noted, the drugs shall not be destroyed until such time as
\nthe appeal has been abandoned or determined, whereupon this subsection shall apply.
\n(3) For the purposes of subsection (2) there is hereby constituted a panel comprising a police officer
\nof or above the rank of superintendent designated by the Commissioner of Police, a senior customs
\nofficer designated by the Commissioner-General of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority, the Director-
\nGeneral or an inspector designated by him and a senior official of the Ministry responsible for justice
\ndesignated by the Attorney-General, who shall, if they so decide whether on their own initiative or at
\nthe request of the custodian police officer concerned, assist the custodian police officer in the
\ndestruction of all dangerous drugs, other than cannabis plants, forfeited to the State.
\n(4) On the date and time appointed by the custodian police officer under subsection (2), the panel
\nreferred to in subsection (3) may attend to the destruction by incineration of the drugs concerned in
\nthe full view and presence of each other and, immediately thereafter, shall sign a joint declaration in
\nthe prescribed form, attesting to the total destruction of the drugs.
\n(5) Within 14 days of the destruction of any dangerous drugs forfeited to the State, the Director-
\nGeneral shall cause to be published in the Gazette for public information the joint declaration referred
\nto in subsection (4).
\n(6) Whenever the custodian police officer is prevented by illness or other reasonable cause from
\ndischarging his functions under this section, such functions shall be discharged by any police officer
\nof or above the rank of sergeant designated by the custodian police officer for that purpose.
\n(7) Cannabis or other article forfeited under this Part shall, unless the court otherwise directs, be
\nburned or otherwise destroyed in the presence of a specified police officer.
\n14H Forfeiture on acquittal or withdrawal of charge
\nAt the conclusion of any proceedings in connection with a dangerous drugs crime, resulting in the
\naccused being acquitted or the charge against him being withdrawn or otherwise dismissed, the court
\nshall order that any drug, other than cannabis, which was seized in connection with the proceedings,
\nshall be forfeited to the State, and sections fourteenF and fourteenG shall apply, mutatis mutandis, in
\nrelation to the drug:
\nProvided that, if the drug is further required as an exhibit at a trial, this section shall not apply in
\nrelation to the drug.
\n14J Forfeiture where no criminal proceedings are instituted
\nIf any dangerous drug, other than cannabis, has been seized by a police officer or any other public
\nofficer and no criminal proceedings are instituted in connection therewith and the drug is not further
\nrequired as an exhibit at a trial, the drug shall be forfeited to the State and the police officer or other
\npublic officer concerned shall deliver the drug to the Director-General as though the court had made
\nan order in respect of that drug under section fourteenG, and thereafter section fourteenH and shall
\napply, mutatis mutandis, in relation to the drug.
\n15 Appointment of inspectors
\n(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Minister shall appoint 1 or more inspectors for the purpose of
\nenforcing this Act.
\n[ See Appointments gazetted on the 24th June, 2011 by GN 252\/11]
\n(2) No person shall be qualified for appointment as an inspector unless he is a person duly authorized
\nto act as a compounder or dispenser of poisons or drugs in terms of any law relating to pharmacy and
\npoisons.
\n16 Powers of inspection
\n(1) Any inspector shall, for enforcing this Act, have power at all reasonable times to enter the
\npremises on which any pharmaceutical chemist, general dealer or licensed manufacturer of any drug
\nto which this Act applies carries on business, and any premises owned or occupied by any person
\nauthorized to be in possession of any such drug, and to enter any other premises in which he has
\nreasonable cause to suspect that an offence against this Act has been committed, and in either case
\nshall have power to make such examination and inquiry and do such other things, including the
\nchecking of stocks and the taking, on payment therefor, of samples as may be necessary for
\nascertaining whether this Act is being complied with.
\n(2) All books, records and documents required to be kept by any person under this Act shall be open
\nto inspection by any police officer or by any other member of a police force authorized in writing by a
\nmagistrate or by a police officer.
\n(3) If any person wilfully delays or obstructs an inspector or a member of a police force in the exercise
\nof his powers under this section, or refuses to allow any sample to be taken in accordance with this
\nsection, or fails without reasonable excuse to give any information which he is duly required under this
\nsection to give, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level five or to
\nimprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
\n[amended by Act 22 of 2001 with effect from 10 September, 2002]
\n17 [ repealed by Act 23 of 2004 with effect from the 1st July, 2006.]
\n18 Persons upon whom powers of inspection, etc., are conferred to produce
\nproof of identity
\nAny person upon whom powers of inspection, search, seizure or forfeiture are conferred under this
\nAct who fails on demand to produce\u2014
\n(a) in the case of an inspector, a certificate under the hand of the Secretary of his
\nappointment as an inspector;
\n(b) in the case of\u2014
\n(i) a customs officer; or
\n(ii) a specified police officer;
\nwho is not in uniform, proof of his identity;
\n(c) in the case of a police officer authorized in writing by a magistrate or by a specified police
\nofficer, to exercise those powers, his authority in writing;
\nshall not, save as is provided in subsection (4) of section seventeen, thereafter be entitled to exercise
\nthose powers until he has produced that certificate, proof of identity or authority in writing, as the case
\nmay be.
\n19 Offences and penalties
\n(1) Subject to this section, any person\u2014
\n(a)
\n[repealed by Act 22 of 2001 with effect from 10 September, 2002]
\n(b) who acts in contravention of or fails to comply with the conditions of a licence issued or
\nauthority granted under or in pursuance of this Act; or
\n(c) who for the purpose of obtaining, whether for himself or for any other person, the issue,
\ngrant or renewal of any such licence or authority as aforesaid makes a declaration or
\nstatement which is false in any particular, or knowingly utters, produces or makes use of any
\nsuch declaration or statement or a document containing the same; or
\n(d)
\n[repealed by Act 22 of 2001 with effect from 10 September, 2002]
\nshall be guilty of an offence and, subject to subsection (3), liable to a fine not exceeding level seven
\nor to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
\n[amended by Act 22 of 2001 with effect from 10 September, 2002]
\n(2) (3)
\n[repealed by Act 23 of 2004 with effect from the 1st July, 2006.]]
\n(4)
\n[repealed by Act 22 of 2001 with effect from 10 September, 2002]]
\n(5) Any person who is convicted of any offence in terms of subsection (1) which involves a
\ncontravention of any provision of this Act relating to the keeping of books or the issuing or dispensing
\nof prescriptions containing any drug to which this Act applies shall be liable to a fine not exceeding\u2014
\n(a) for a first such offence, level four or 8imprisonment for a period not exceeding thee
\nmonths or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
\n(b) for a second and subsequent such offence, level six or imprisonment for a period not
\nexceeding twelve months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
\n[amended by Act 22 of 2001 with effect from 10 September, 2002]
\n(6) Indian hemp or other article forfeited under this Act shall, unless the court otherwise directs, be
\nburned or otherwise destroyed in the presence of a specified police officer.
\n(7)
\n[repealed by Act 23 of 2004 with effect from the 1st July, 2006.]
\n19A Offences involving juveniles
\nWhere an offence of which a person is convicted under this Act involves\u2014
\n(a) unlawfully supplying a drug to or procuring a drug for a person under the age of 18 years,
\nor offering so to supply or procure a drug; or
\n(b) inciting or influencing a person under the age of 18 years unlawfully to smoke or use any
\ndrug in contravention of Part III;
\nthe court shall have regard to that fact as an aggravating feature when imposing sentence on the
\nconvicted person.
\n[inserted by Act 22 of 2001 with effect from 10 September, 2002]
\n26 Power of arrest
\nAny police officer may arrest without warrant a person who has committed, or attempted to commit, or
\nis reasonably suspected by the police officer of having committed or attempted to commit an offence
\nagainst this Act if he has reasonable grounds for believing that that person will abscond unless
\narrested, or if the name and address of that person are unknown to, and cannot be ascertained by,
\nhim.
\n27 Licences and authorities
\n(1) A licence or authority issued for the purposes of this Act by the Minister may be issued on such
\nterms and subject to such conditions, including, in the case of a licence, the payment of a fee, as the
\nMinister may fix.
\n(2) Whenever the Minister is empowered under any provision of this Act to issue any licence or
\nauthority, he may delegate to the Secretary such power, subject to the right of any person to whom
\nthe issue of such licence or authority has been refused to appeal in writing to the Minister against
\nsuch refusal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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