Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985
7A. National Fund for Control of Drug
Abuse
(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official
Gazette, constitute a Fund to be called the National Fund for Control of Drug
Abuse (hereafter in this Chapter referred to as the Fund ) and there shall be
credited thereto -
(a) an amount which the Central Government
may, after due appropriation made by Parliament by law in this behalf, provide;
(b) the sale proceeds of any property
forfeited under Chapter VA;
(c) any grants that may be made by any person
or institution;
(d) any income from investment of the amounts
credited to the Fund under the aforesaid provisions.
(2) The Fund shall be applied by the Central Government to
meet the expenditure incurred in connection with the measures taken for
combating illicit traffic in, or controlling abuse of, narcotic drugs and
psychotropic substances for all or any of the purposes specified in sub-section
(1) of section 71.
(3) The Central Government may constitute a Governing Body
as it thinks fit to advise that Government in regard to the application of the
Fund.
(4) The Governing Body shall consist of a Chairman (not below
the rank of an Additional Secretary to the Central Government) and such other
members not exceeding six as the Central Government may appoint.
(5) The Governing Body shall have the power to regulate its own
procedure.