opium (i.e. raw opium which has been artificially dried) and 
any preparation, admixture, extract, or other substance con- 
taining not less than one-fifth per cent. of morphine (calculated 
as in respect of anhydrous morphine) or one-tenth per cent. 
of cocaine, ecgonine, or diamorphine.* The restriction may 
be applied by Order in Council to any new derivative of morphine 
or cocaine or of any salts of morphine or cocaine or any other 
alkaloid of opium or any other drug of whatever kind which 
is or is likely to be productive, if improperly used, of ill effects 
substantially of the same character or nature as or analogous 
to those produced by morphine or cocaine. 
Dyestuffs, except under licence from the Board of Trade, viz. :— 
(I) All synthetic organic dyestuffs, colours and colouring 
matters. 
(2) All organic intermediate products used in the manu- 
facture of such dyestuffs, colours or colouring matters. 
Generally speaking, the prohibition applies to all synthetic 
dyestuffs, colours and colouring matters in any form whatever, 
and also to intermediate products; it does not apply to dyestuffs, 
etc., of natural origin, nor to “crudes,” e.g. coal tar distillation 
products such as benzol, toluol, xylol, etc. ‘Organic intermediate 
products ”’ are organic compounds situated between the ** crudes 
and the finished dyestuffs, 
Explosives.—A licence from the Home Office is required for the 
importation of all explosives except? gunpowder, cartridges made 
with gunpowder, safety cartridges (i.e. cartridges for small arms 
of which the case can be extracted from the small arm after firing, 
and which are so closed as to prevent any explosion in one cartridge 
being communicated to other cartridges), safety fuses for blasting, 
Vulcan patent electric delay action fuses, railway fog signals and 
percussion caps (not including detonators). Acetylene, collodion 
cotton, and picric acid, are in certain circumstances deemed to be 
restricted explosives. (See also page 55.) 
Extracts, essences, or other concentrations of coffee, chicory, tea 
or tobacco, or any admixture of the same. 
Fash illegally caught, viz. :—TFish caught by beam trawling and 
otter trawling within certain defined areas, on being brought to 
land in Great Britain or Northern Ireland. 
* When the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1925, comes into operation the above 
list of drugs will include any extract or tincture of Indian hemp. 
1 See, however, page 20, as to the licence from other Departments required 
for arms, ammunition, etc.