s 45 Power of Minister to exempt certain drugs and institutions from certain provisions of the Act
The Minister may, by order or by regulations made under this Act, exempt from any of the provisions of this Act or the regulations made thereunder: (a) dangerous drugs in respect of which— (i) the Secretary General of the United Nations Organization shall have communicated to the parties to the Single Convention under article 3 of the said Convention a decision of the Commission; or (ii) the Minister shall have decided that such dangerous drugs cannot give rise to the drug habit on account of the medicaments with which the said dangerous drugs are compounded; or (b) any hospital, infirmary, dispensary wholly or mainly maintained by a public authority out of public funds or such like institutions as he may approve from time to time.