Section 13
Special provisions relating to coca plant and coca leaves for use in the preparation of flavouring agent.
The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to narcotic drugs, to make stringent provisions for the control and regulation of operations relating to narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances , to provide for the forfeiture of property derived from, or used in, illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, to implement the provisions of the International Conventions on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances and for matters connected therewith.
Notwithstanding anything contained in section 8, the Central Government may
permit, with or without conditions, and on behalf of Government, the cultivation of any coca plant or
gathering of any portion thereof or the production, possession, sale, purchase, transport, import interState,
export inter-State or import into India of coca leaves for use in the preparation of any flavouring
agent which shall not contain any alkaloid and to the extent necessary for such use.