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The Misuse of Drugs (Safe Custody) (Amendment) Regulations 1986

Type Statutory-Instrument

Publication 1986-12-22

State In force

Department Westlaw

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Made: 22nd December 1986

Laid before Parliament: 13th January 1987

Coming into Operation: 1st April 1987

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 1986 and shall come into operation on 1st April 1987.

2

For Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs (Safe Custody) Regulations 1973[^f00001] there shall be substituted the following Schedule:—

SCHEDULE 1 (1) Any controlled drug specified in Schedule 4 or 5 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 1985[^f00002]. (2) Any liquid preparation designed for administration otherwise than by injection which contains any of the following substances and products, that is to say:— (a) Amphetamine (b) Benzphetamine (c) Chlorphentermine (d) Fenethylline (e) Mephentermine (f) Methaqualone (g) Methylamphetamine (h) Methylphenidate (i) Phendimetrazine (j) Phenmetrazine (k) Pipradrol (l) Any stereoisomeric form of a substance specified in any of paragraphs (a) to (k) above. (m) Any salt of a substance specified in any of paragraphs (a) to (l) above. (3) Any of the following substances and products, that is to say:— (a) Any 5,5 disubstituted barbituric acid (b) Cathine (c) Ethchlorvynol (d) Ethinamate (e) Mazindol (f) Meprobamate (g) Methylphenobarbitone (h) Methyprylone (i) Pentazocine (j) Phentermine (k) Any stereoisomeric form of a substance specified in any of paragraphs (a) to (j) above. (l) Any salt of a substance specified in any of paragraphs (a) to (k) above. (m) Any preparation or other product containing a substance or product specified in any of paragraphs (a) to (l) above.

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Douglas Hurd — One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State — Home Office — 22nd December 1986

Explanatory note

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Misuse of Drugs (Safe Custody) Regulations 1973 by substituting a new Schedule 1 (which specifies those drugs which are exempted from the requirements of the Regulations). The only change of substance is the addition of fenethylline (when in the form of a liquid preparation designed for administration otherwise than by injection) and cathine.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: Schedule 1 was amended by S.I. 1984/1146 and 1985/2067.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1985/2066

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