An Act further to amend the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—1. (1) This Act may be called the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Amendment) Act, 2014. (2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. 2. In section 2 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act),— (a) after clause (iv), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:— ‘(iva) “Central Government factories” means factories owned by the Central Government or factories owned by any company in which the Central Government holds at least fifty-one per cent. of the paid-up share capital;’; (b) clause (viiia) shall be relettered as clause (viiib) and before, clause (viiib) as so relettered, the following clause shall be inserted, namely:— ‘(viiia) “essential narcotic drug” means a narcotic drug notified by the Central Government for medical and scientific use.