Article 1 Definitions

‘Board’ means the International Narcotics Control Board established by the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, and that Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol Amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961;

‘Cannabis plant’ means any plant of the genus Cannabis;

‘Coca bush’ means the plant of any species of the genus Erythroxylon;

‘Commercial carrier’ means any person or any public, private or other entity engaged in transporting persons, goods or mails for remuneration, hire or any other benefit;

‘Commission’ means the Commission on Narcotic Drugs of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations;

‘Confiscation’, which includes forfeiture where applicable, means the permanent deprivation of property by order of a court or other competent authority;

‘Controlled delivery’ means the technique of allowing illicit or suspect consignments of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, substances in Table I and Table II annexed to this Convention, or substances substituted for them, to pass out of, through or into the territory of one or more countries, with the knowledge and under the supervision of their competent authorities, with a view to identifying persons involved in the commission of offences established in accordance with article 3, paragraph 1 of the Convention;

‘1961 Convention’ means the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961;

‘1961 Convention as amended’ means the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, as amended by the 1972 Protocol Amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961;

‘1971 Convention’ means the Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971;

‘Council’ means the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations;

‘Freezing’ or ‘seizure’ means temporarily prohibiting the transfer, conversion, disposition or movement of property or temporarily assuming custody or control of property on the basis of an order issued by a court or a competent authority;

‘Illicit traffic’ means the offences set forth in article 3, paragraphs 1 and 2, of this Convention;

‘Narcotic drug’ means any of the substances, natural or synthetic, in Schedules I and II of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, and that Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol Amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961;

‘Opium poppy’ means the plant of the species Papaver somniferum L;

‘Proceeds’ means any property derived from or obtained, derectly[lees: directly] or indirectly, through the commission of an offence established in accordance with article 3, paragraph 1;

‘Property’ means assets of every kind, whether corporeal or incorporeal, movable or immovable, tangible or intangible, and legal documents or instruments evidencing title to, or interest in, such assets;

Psychotropic substance’ means any substance, natural or synthetic, or any natural material in Schedules I, II, III and IV of the Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971;

‘Secretary-General’ means the Secretary-General of the United Nations;

‘Table I’ and ‘Table II’ mean the correspondingly numbered lists of substances annexed to this Convention, as amended from time to time in accordance with article 12;

‘Transit State’ means a State through the territory of which illicit narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and substances in Table I and Table II are being moved, which is neither the place of origin nor the place of ultimate dest ination thereof.