The Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Regulations 1988

• Citation: S.I. 1988/916
• Sections: 2

Section 1

These Regulations may be cited as the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 13th July 1988.

Section 2

(1) The Misuse of Drugs Regulations 1985 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”.