Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

Amendment of the Misuse of Drugs (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1986

3.—(1) The Misuse of Drugs (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1986(1) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2(1), after the definition of “document”, there shall be inserted the following definition—

• ““exempt product” means a preparation or other product consisting of one or more component parts, any of which contains a controlled drug, where—

  (a)

  the preparation or other product is not designed for administration of the controlled drug to a human being or animal;

  (b)

  the controlled drug in any component part is packaged in such a form, or in combination with other active or inert substances in such a manner, that it cannot be recovered by readily applicable means or in a yield which constitutes a risk to health; and

  (c)

  no one component part of the product or preparation contains more than one milligram of the controlled drug or one microgram in the case of lysergide or any other N-alkyl derivative of lysergamide;”.

(3) In regulation 4, at the end there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(4) Sections 3(1), 4(1) and 5(1) of the Act shall not have effect in relation to any exempt product.”.

(4) In regulation 14(7), at the end there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—

“(c) any exempt product”.

(5) In regulation 18(2), after sub-paragraph (aa), there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(ab) any exempt product;”.

(6) After regulation 24, there shall be inserted the following regulation—

“Exempt products

24A.   Nothing in regulations 19 to 24 shall have effect in relation to any exempt product.”.

(1)

S.R. 1986 No. 52; relevant amending instruments are S.R. 1998 No. 206 and S.R. 1996 No. 353