Law on Combating Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances
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- Article 1In applying the provisions of this Decree-Law, the following words and expressions shall have the meanings indicated opposite each of them, unless the context requires…
- Article 2Under the provisions of this Decree-Law, a council shall be established called (the Supreme Council for Combating Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, competent…
- Article 3The Ministry shall establish rehabilitation centres and addiction treatment centres competent to rehabilitate and treat addicts and users. These centres shall be…
- Article 4The Ministry of Interior shall establish correctional and rehabilitation centres for serving sentences of imprisonment for offences of possessing narcotic or…
- Article 5It is prohibited to produce, manufacture, import, export, transport, possess, purchase, sell, or trade in narcotic or psychotropic substances and preparations listed in…
- Article 6It is prohibited to cultivate, import, export, transport, possess, purchase, sell, or trade in any of the plants listed in Schedule No. (5) attached to this Decree-Law,…
- Article 7Narcotic or psychotropic substances or preparations, or chemical precursors, may not be imported, exported or transported except pursuant to a licence from the Minister.…
- Article 8A license to import, export, or transport narcotic or psychotropic substances and preparations or chemical precursors may be granted only to the following entities: 1 -…
- Article 9The granting of a license to import, export, transport or circulate psychotropic substances or preparations, whatever the proportion of the psychotropic agent therein…
- Article 10An applicant for a licence to import, export, or transport narcotic or psychotropic substances or preparations, or chemical precursors and their preparations, shall…
- Article 11Narcotic or psychotropic substances or preparations, or chemical precursors or their preparations, arriving at the customs office may not be delivered or exported except…
- Article 12Narcotic or psychotropic substances or preparations, or chemical precursors or their preparations, may not be released unless their fitness for use and conformity with…
- Article 13It is prohibited to import or export narcotic or psychotropic substances or preparations, chemical precursors, or their preparations by mail, or to transport them in…
- Article 14A person licensed to export narcotic or psychotropic substances or preparations, or chemical precursors, must enclose a copy of the export licence with each package. The…
- Article 15In the event that a state of emergency is declared in the country, it shall be permissible to import narcotic substances or preparations, Law Index 399 Home Page Law on…
- Article 16Trading in narcotic or psychotropic substances or preparations is not permissible except after obtaining a licence from the Minister. The Minister shall issue a decision…
- Article 17Trading in narcotic or psychotropic substances or preparations shall be licensed only to pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies' factories and warehouses, in accordance…
- Article 18The licence referred to in Article (16) of this Decree-Law may not be granted to the following categories unless they have been legally rehabilitated: 1 - A person…
- Article 19Persons licensed to trade in narcotic or psychotropic substances or preparations may not dispose of them in any capacity whatsoever except in the cases specified in the…
- Article 20A physician licensed to practice medicine in the country may prescribe narcotic or psychotropic substances or preparations to patients for a medical need, in accordance…
- Article 21A patient, or the person responsible for the patient's care in the event of the patient's incapacity, may possess narcotic or psychotropic substances or preparations for…
- Article 23A veterinarian licensed to practise the profession in the country may not issue a prescription for dispensing narcotic or psychotropic substances or preparations except…
- Article 24A pharmacist may not dispense any quantity of narcotic or psychotropic substances or preparations except pursuant to a medical prescription issued by the Ministry or by…
- Article 25The Minister shall issue a decision specifying the particulars and conditions required in drawing up medical prescriptions pursuant to which narcotic or psychotropic…
- Article 26The originals of medical prescriptions shall be kept at the dispensing pharmacy, and the patient or the person caring for him shall be given a true copy of this…
- Article 27The pharmacy shall keep special registers to record receipts and disbursements of narcotic or psychotropic preparations, and its pages shall be stamped with the…
- Article 28Those members of professions auxiliary to the medical profession whom the Minister designates may possess certain psychotropic substances and preparations listed in…
- Article 29Commanders of international public aircraft and ships registered in the State of Kuwait may possess a specified quantity of psychotropic substances or preparations…
- Article 30Patients arriving in the country may bring in preparations of the narcotic substances listed in Schedule No. (1) of the first group annexed to this Decree-Law in a…
- Article 31A decision of the Minister shall regulate the manner of dispensing narcotic and psychotropic substances and preparations in health establishments and pharmacies; the…
- Article 32Narcotic and psychotropic substances or preparations may not be produced or manufactured except by pharmaceutical factories and under a licence from the Minister. These…
- Article 33Licensed pharmaceutical factories must record, in the leaflets contained inside the packages of narcotic and psychotropic substances and preparations, or on the labels…
- Article 34The plants listed in Schedule No. (5) of the first group annexed to this Decree-Law may not be cultivated except under a licence from the Minister.
- Article 35The licence shall not be issued by the Minister pursuant to the preceding Article except to governmental entities and specialised governmental and licensed private…
- Article 36The Minister may license government entities and scientific institutes to cultivate any plant whose cultivation is prohibited, for medical purposes or scientific…
- Article 37Anyone licensed to import, export, possess, or trade in narcotic or psychotropic substances or preparations pursuant to the provisions of this Decree-Law shall record…
- Article 38The registers prescribed in this Decree-Law shall be retained for three years from the date of the last entry made therein. Import, export, transport and circulation…
- Article 39Persons licensed to trade in narcotic or psychotropic substances or preparations must send a statement to the Ministry during the first week following the expiry of…
- Article 40By a decision of the Minister, the schedules or groups annexed to this Decree-Law may be amended by deletion, addition, transfer between them, or alteration of the…
- Article 41The Minister may impose fees for services provided by the Ministry pursuant to the provisions of this Decree-Law, and government entities shall be exempt from them.…
- Article 42Anyone who commits any of the following acts, outside the cases authorised by law, shall be punished by death or life imprisonment coupled with a fine of not less than…
- Article 43Anyone who commits any of the following acts in circumstances other than those legally authorised shall be punished by death or life imprisonment coupled with a fine of…
- Article 44The penalty for the offences stipulated in the two preceding Articles shall be death if any of the following aggravating circumstances is present: 1- Recidivism. 2- If…
- Article 45Anyone who establishes or manages a criminal gang organization, even abroad, whose purpose or activities include committing any of the crimes stipulated in Articles (42)…
- Article 46Anyone who commits any of the following acts other than in medically authorized circumstances shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding fifteen years…
- Article 47Anyone who plants narcotic or psychotropic substances or preparations on another with the intent of accusing him of possessing them, or of concealing them with him…
- Article 48Anyone who possesses, brings in, smuggles, purchases, produces, or manufactures narcotic or psychotropic substances or preparations, or cultivates a plant among the…
- Article 49Anyone who consumes, possesses, brings in, smuggles, produces, manufactures or purchases narcotic or psychotropic substances or preparations for consumption or personal…
- Article 50Anyone who manages, prepares, or makes ready a place for the consumption of narcotic or psychotropic substances or preparations shall be punished by imprisonment for a…
Articles 51 – 10033
- Article 51Whoever calls, by way of inducement, enticement or seduction and by any means whatsoever, for the commission of the crime provided for in Article (49) of this Decree-Law…
- Article 52The punishment shall be imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year and a fine not exceeding two thousand dinars, or either of these two penalties, if the subject…
- Article 53Anyone who writes a medical prescription, or permits the dispensing of narcotic or psychotropic substances or preparations by any means whatsoever, for the purpose of…
- Article 54Anyone against whom an order has been issued to take a sample for testing him for narcotic or psychotropic substances or preparations, for the application of Article…
- Article 55Anyone who commits a violation relating to entry in the registers provided for in this Decree-Law, and anyone who prevents or attempts to prevent a public official from…
- Article 56Anyone who discloses any private data or information concerning reports or the treatment of addicts, persons placed in a rehabilitation or addiction treatment centre, or…
- Article 57A legal person shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten thousand dinars and not exceeding one hundred thousand dinars, or the equivalent of the total value of…
- Article 58Anyone who manufactures, promotes, sells or possesses for the purpose of trading goods, printed materials or emblems bearing images, drawings, writings or ideas calling…
- Article 59Where the court rules to refrain from pronouncing punishment for the offence provided for in Article (49) of this Decree-Law, it may order that the convicted person be…
- Article 60Anyone who commits an offence characterised by violence or threats or resulting in injury to others or damage to their property, and who was under the influence of…
- Article 61Criminal proceedings shall not be instituted against an addict who voluntarily presents himself to an addiction treatment centre seeking treatment and rehabilitation,…
- Article 62Either spouse or any relative up to the third degree may report his spouse or relative to the police because of his addiction or use, with a view to his treatment. This…
- Article 63Instead of initially instituting criminal proceedings against the accused for committing the offence prescribed in Article (49) of this Decree-Law, the Public…
- Article 64Instead of imposing the penalty specified in Article (49) provided for in this Decree-Law, the court may order the placement of the addict or user in the rehabilitation…
- Article 65No criminal action shall be instituted against a person who enters the country through official ports of entry and is apprehended for the first time for possessing food,…
- Article 66By a decision of the authority competent to make appointments in each entity, a screening test for the use of narcotic and psychotropic substances and preparations…
- Article 67The Ministry shall manage rehabilitation centres and supervise medical units engaged in the same activity belonging to the private sector. The Ministry of Interior shall…
- Article 68The court that sentenced a foreign prisoner serving the penalty imposed on him for the offence prescribed in Article (49) of this Decree- Law Index 413 Home Page Law on…
- Article 69Without prejudice to the provisions of the aforementioned Law No. 106 of 2013 and the rights of third parties acting in good faith, confiscation shall be ordered in all…
- Article 70Confiscated narcotic and psychotropic substances, preparations, and plants shall be destroyed by a committee chaired by a member of the Public Prosecution. Its formation…
- Article 71Judgments imposing the penalty of imprisonment provided for in this Decree-Law shall be immediately enforceable. The court hearing the opposition or appeal may order a…
- Article 72Decisions and judgments ordering placement pursuant to Articles (62, 63, 64) provided for in this Decree-Law may not be challenged, and shall not be considered a prior…
- Article 73The court may exempt from the penalties prescribed in this Decree-Law any perpetrator who takes the initiative to inform the public authorities of the crime and its…
- Article 74Criminal proceedings for the offences stipulated in Articles Home Page Law Index 414 Law on Combating Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Decree-Law No. 159 of…
- Article 75The Public Prosecution shall have jurisdiction over investigation, disposition, and prosecution in all offences and complaints provided for in this Decree-Law and…
- Article 76The police may stop anyone found in an abnormal condition upon suspicion that he has consumed a substance affecting his mental faculties. He may be arrested if he is…
- Article 77The transit or entry into the country of narcotic and psychotropic substances and preparations under the controlled delivery system may not be permitted without…
- Article 78A decree, upon the submission of the Minister of Interior, shall determine the amount of the reward paid to anyone who provides information leading to, or participates…
- Article 79The Minister shall appoint employees having the capacity of judicial enforcement officers, who shall have the right to enter governmental or private institutions and all…
- Article 80The employees of the authorities competent to supervise plant and agricultural resources whom the competent Minister designates shall have the same authorities and…
- Article 81The Minister may issue a decision suspending a practitioner of medicine or pharmacy, or practitioners of allied medical professions, from work, or suspending his licence…
- Article 82The competent Minister shall issue the decisions necessary to implement the provisions of this Decree-Law.
- Article 83Law No. 74 of 1983 concerning the Control of Narcotic Drugs and the Regulation of Their Use and Trade, and Decree-Law No. 48 of 1987 concerning the Control of…