law: Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985
  9. Power of Central Government to
  
  permit, control and regulate.
  (1) Subject to the provisions of section 8, the Central
  
  Government may, by rules-
  (a) permit and regulate-
  (i) the cultivation, or gathering of any
  
  portion (such cultivation or gathering being only on account of the Central
  
  Government) of coca plant, or the production, possession, sale, purchase,
  
  transport, import inter-State, export inter-State, use or consumption of coca
  
  leaves;
  (ii) the cultivation (such cultivation being
  
  only on account of Central Government) of the opium poppy;
  (iii) the production and manufacture of opium
  
  and production of poppy straw;
  (iv) the sale of opium and opium derivatives
  
  from the Central Government factories for export from India or sale to State
  
  Government or to manufacturing chemists;
  (v) the manufacture of manufactured drugs
  
  (other than prepared opium) but not including manufacture of medicinal opium or
  
  any preparation containing any manufactured drug from materials which the maker
  
  is lawfully entitled to possess;
  (vi) the manufacture, possession, transport,
  
  import inter-State, export inter-State, sale, purchase, consumption or use of
  
  psychotropic substances;
  (vii) the import into India and export from
  
  India and transhipment of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances;
  (b) prescribe any other matter requisite to
  
  render effective the control of the Central Government over any of the matters
  
  specified in clause (a).
  (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the
  
  foregoing power, such rules may-
  (a) empower the Central Government to fix from
  
  time to time the limits within which licenses may be given for the cultivation
  
  of the opium poppy;
  (b) require that all opium, the produce of
  
  land cultivated with the opium poppy, shall be delivered by the cultivators to
  
  the officers. authorized in. this behalf by the Central Government;
  (c) prescribe the forms and conditions of
  
  licenses for cultivation of the opium poppy and for production and manufacture
  
  of opium; the fees that may be charged therefor; the authorities by which such
  
  licenses may be granted, withheld, refused or cancelled and the authorities
  
  before which appeals against the order of withholding, refusal or cancellation
  
  of licenses shall lie;
  (d) prescribe that opium shall be weighed,
  
  examined and classified according to its quality and consistence by the
  
  officers authorized in this behalf by the Central Government in the presence of
  
  the cultivator at the time of delivery by the cultivator;
  (e) empower the Central Government to fix from
  
  time to time the price to be paid to the cultivators for the opium delivered;
  (f) provide for the weighment, examination and
  
  classification, according to the quality and consistence, of the opium received
  
  at the factory and the deductions from or additions (if any) to the standard
  
  price to be made in accordance with the result of such examination; and the authorities
  
  by which the decisions with regard to the weighment, examination,
  
  classification, deductions or additions shall be made and the authorities
  
  before which appeals against such decisions shall lie;
  (g) require that opium delivered by a
  
  cultivator, if found as a result of examination in the Central Government
  
  factory to be adulterated, may be confiscated by the officers authorized in
  
  this behalf;
  (h) prescribe the forms and conditions of
  
  licenses for the manufacture of manufactured drugs , the authorities by which
  
  such licenses may be granted and the fees that may be charged therefor;
  (i) prescribe the forms and conditions of
  
  licenses or permits for the manufacture, possession, transport, import
  
  inter-State, export inter-State, sale, purchase, consumption or use of
  
  psychotropic substances, the authorities by which such licenses or permits may
  
  be granted and the fees that may be charged therefor;
  (j) prescribe the ports and other places at
  
  which any kind of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances may be imported
  
  into India or exported from India or transshipped; the forms and conditions of
  
  certificates, authorizations or permits, as the case may be, for such import,
  
  export or transhipment; the authorities by which such certificate,
  
  authorizations or permits may be granted and the fees that may be charged
  
  therefor.