3. After regulation 22(4) insert—
“(5) Every person who is authorised by or under any provision of the Act to have in his possession or to destroy, or cause to be destroyed, the substance specified in paragraph 5 of Part I of Schedule 4 shall make a record of each quantity of such drug possessed or destroyed.
(6) Paragraph (5) shall not have effect in relation to—
(a)a patient to whom the substance specified in paragraph 5 of Part I of Schedule 4 has been prescribed;
(b)a constable when acting in the course of his duty as such;
(c)a person engaged in the business of a carrier when acting in the course of that business;
(d)a person engaged in the business of a postal operator (within the meaning of Part 3 of the Postal Services Act 2011)(1)when acting in the course of that business;
(e)an officer of customs and excise when acting in the course of his duty as such;
(f)a person engaged in the work of any laboratory to which the substance specified in paragraph 5 of Part I of Schedule 4 has been sent for forensic examination when acting in the course of his duty as a person so engaged; and
(g)a person engaged in conveying the substance specified in paragraph 5 of Part I of Schedule 4 to a person who may lawfully have that substance in his possession.”.