The Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Regulations 1988

2.—(1) The Misuse of Drugs Regulations 1985(1)shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 6(4), for“Schedule 3” there shall be substituted“Schedule 2 or 3”.

(3) For regulation 14(7) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:

“(7) Nothing in this regulation shall have effect in relation to—

(a) the drugs specified in Schedules 4 and 5 or poppy straw;

(b) any drug specified in Schedule 3 contained in or comprising a preparation which—

(i) is required for use as a buffering agent in chemical analysis,

(ii) has present in it both a substance specified in paragraph 1 or 2 of that Schedule and a salt of that substance, and

(iii) is premixed in a kit.”.

(4) In regulation 18(2), after sub-paragraph (a) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph:

“(aa) any drug specified in Schedule 3 contained in or comprising a preparation which—

(i) is required for use as a buffering agent in chemical analysis,

(ii) has present in it both a substance specified in paragraph 1 or 2 of that Schedule and a salt of that substance, and

(iii) is premixed in a kit;”.

(5) In paragraph 6 of Schedule 2, after“Propiram” there shall be inserted“Quinalbarbitone”.

(6) In paragraph 1(b) of Schedule 3, there shall be added at the end the words“not being quinalbarbitone”.

(1)

S.I. 1985/2066, as amended by S.I. 1986/2330.