Section 63. Exemptions and prohibitions.

2[63. Exemptions and prohibitions.––(a) Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this Act applies to the manufacture, possession, sale or supply by medical practitioners, chemists, druggists, apothecaries or keepers of dispensaries of any medicated article for bona fide medicinal purposes, or to the possession by the public of such articles lawfully supplied by them ; but (b) it shall be lawful for 3[the Government] at any time by notification to prohibit the import, export, transport, manufacture, possession, sale or supply whether for medicinal purposes or otherwise of any liquor or intoxicating drug otherwise than in accordance with such rules and conditions (if any) as may be prescribed by 3[the Government] in that behalf ; (c) it shall be lawful for 3[the Government] at any time by notification to exempt subject to such conditions, if any, as 3[the Government] may impose, any specified article or class of articles or any specified person or class of persons from the operation of all or any of the provisions of this Act or of rules made or prohibitions notified thereunder and in like manner to cancel such exemption ; (d) it shall also be lawful for 3[the Government] to authorise the 4[Commissioner] to permit subject to such restrictions and conditions as 5[the said 4[Commissioner] may in each case or class of cases prescribe, the possession by medical practitioners of liquor or 6[opium and hemp drugs] and the preparation by them of medicines containing the same for use in their practice.]