LegalizeThe Misuse of Drugs (Safe Custody) (Amendment) Regulations 1974
Made: 28th August 1974
Laid before Parliament: 5th September 1974
Coming into Operation: 27th September 1974
In pursuance of sections 10(2)(a) and 31 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, after consultation with the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, I hereby make the following Regulations:—
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Misuse of Drugs (Safe Custody) (Amendment) Regulations 1974 and shall come into operation on 27th September 1974.
2
The Misuse of Drugs (Safe Custody) Regulations 1973[^f00001] shall be amended as follows, that is to say, in Regulation 1 for the words “1st October 1974” there shall be substituted the words “1st April 1975”.
Signed
Roy Jenkins — One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State — 28th August 1974
Explanatory note
EXPLANATORY NOTE
These Regulations amend the Misuse of Drugs (Safe Custody) Regulations 1973 by postponing from 1st October 1974 to 1st April 1975 the coming into operation of Regulations 3 and 4 of and Schedule 2 to those Regulations (which require controlled drugs in retail pharmacies and certain other premises to be kept in a locked safe, cabinet or room constructed in accordance with prescribed specifications or, in certain circumstances, certified as adequately secure by the chief officer of police).
Footnotes
[^f00001]: (1973 I, p. 2572).
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