The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985
(1) The State Government may appoint such officers with such designations as it thinks fit for the purposes of this Act. 1. Ins. by Act 16 of 2014, s. 3 (w.e.f. 1-5-2014). (2) The officers appointed under sub-section (1) shall be subject to the general control and direction of the State Government, or, if so directed by that Government, also of any other authority or officer.
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Official text: India Code (official) ↗
Official India Code text: The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (61 of 1985), English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1791/5/a1985-61.pdf, 719,612 bytes, sha256 ef1b3991…) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-07-29. The same handle also carries a Hindi edition (H1985-61.pdf) — the English 'a'-prefixed file is the one ingested. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes/amendment history excluded; spot-verified; full clause-level proofread pending.
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