The Misuse of Drugs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Furnishing of information with respect to controlled drugs

26.—(1) The persons specified in paragraph (2) shall on demand made by the Department or by any person authorised in writing by the Department in that behalf—

(a) furnish such particulars as may be requested in respect of the producing, obtaining or supplying by him of any controlled drug or in respect of any stock of such drugs in his possession;

(b) for the purpose of confirming any such particulars, produce any stock of such drugs in his possession;

(c) produce any register, book or document required to be kept under these regulations relating to any dealings in controlled drugs which is in his possession.

(2) The persons referred to in paragraph (1) are—

(a) any person authorised by or under these regulations to produce any controlled drug;

(b) any person authorised by or under any provision of the Act to import or export any controlled drug;

(c) a wholesale dealer;

(d) a retail dealer;

(e) a practitioner;

(f) the person in charge or acting person in charge of a hospital or nursing home;

(g) a person who is in charge of a laboratory;

(h) a person who is authorised under regulation 9(4)(a) to supply any controlled drug.

(3) Nothing in this regulation shall require the furnishing of personal records which a person has acquired or created in the course of his profession or occupation and which he holds in confidence; and in this paragraph “personal records” means documentary and other records concerning an individual (whether living or dead) who can be identified from them and relating to his physical or mental health.