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as to facilitate the operations of speculators or to injure the legiti¬
mate commerce of any High Contracting Party.”
The League Health Committee also has functions under both
the 1925 and 1931 conventions.
(hi) The League Health Committee and the Convention of 1925.
“Article 8. In the event of the Health Committee of the League
of Nations, after having submitted the question for advice and
report to the Permanent Committee of the Office international
d’Hygiene publique in Paris, finding that any preparation contain¬
ing any of the narcotic drugs referred to in the present Chapter
cannot give rise to the drug habit on account of the medicaments
with which the said drugs are compounded and which in practice
preclude the recovery of the said drugs, the Health Committee shall
communicate this finding to the Council of the League of Nations.
The Council will communicate the finding to the Contracting
Parties, and thereupon the provisions of the present convention
will not be applicable to the preparation concerned.”
“Article 10. In the event of the Health Committee of the League
of Nations, after having submitted the question for advice and report
to the Permanent Committee of the Office international d’Hygiene
publique in Paris, finding that any narcotic drug to which the present
convention does not apply is liable to similar abuse and productive
of similar ill effects as the substances to which this Chapter of the
convention applies, the Health Committee shall inform the Council
of the League accordingly and recommend that the provisions of
the present convention shall be applied to such drug.
The Council of the League shall communicate the said recom¬
mendation to the Contracting Parties. Any Contracting Party
which is prepared to accept the recommendations shall notify the
Secretary General of the League, who will inform the other Con¬
tracting Parties.
The provisions of the present convention shall thereupon apply
to the substance in question as between the Contracting Parties
who have accepted the recommendation referred to above.”
(iv) The League Health Committee and the Convention of 1931.
“Article 11. 1. No trade in or manufacture for trade of any pro¬
duct obtained from any of the phenanthrene alkaloids of opium or
from the ecgonine alkaloids of the coca-leaf, not in use on this day’s
date for medical or scientific purposes, shall take place in any country