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2001 No. 431

DANGEROUS DRUGS

Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001

  Made 17th December 2001 
  Coming into operation 1st February 2002 

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 7(4) and (5) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971[1] as adapted by section 7(9) of the Act and now vested in it[2] and of every other power enabling it in that behalf and on the recommendation of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, hereby makes the following Order: - 

Citation and commencement
     1. This Order may be cited as the Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 1st February 2002.

Interpretation
    
2. The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954[3] shall apply to this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Designation
     3.  - (1) The controlled drugs specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order are designated as drugs to which section 7(4) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 applies.

    (2) Part II of the Schedule shall have effect for the purpose of specifying those controlled drugs which are excepted from Part I of that Schedule.

Revocations
    
4. The Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order (Northern Ireland) 1987[4], the Misuse of Drugs (Designation) (Variation) Order (Northern Ireland) 1991[5], the Misuse of Drugs (Designation) (Variation) Order (Northern Ireland) 1995[6] and the Misuse of Drugs (Designation) (Variation) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998[7] are revoked.



Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on


17th December 2001.

L.S.


W. B. Smith
A Senior Officer of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety


SCHEDULE 1
Article 2



Part I

Controlled Drugs to which section 7(4) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 applies

     1. The following substances and products, namely: - 

     2. Any stereoisomeric form of a substance specified in paragraph 1 above.

     3. Any ester or ether of a substance specified in paragraph 1 or 2 above.

     4. Any salt of a substance specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 3 above.

     5. Any preparation or other product containing a substance or product specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 4 above.



Part II

Controlled Drugs excepted from Part I

     1. The compounds referred to in paragraph 1(e) of Part I of this Schedule are - 

     2. The compounds referred to in paragraph 1(f) of Part I of this Schedule are - 



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order.)


Section 7(3) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 requires regulations to be made to allow the use for medical purposes of the drugs which are subject to control under the Act. Section 7(3) does not however apply to any drug which is designated by order under section 7(4) as a drug to which section 7(4) is to apply.

This Order, which revokes and replaces the Misuse of Drugs (Designation) (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 (as amended), designates for this purpose the drugs specified in Part I of the Schedule to the Order. It differs from the previous Order by the addition, in paragraph 1(c) of Part I of the Schedule, of thirty-five substances which are all phenethylamine derivatives and which became subject to control under the Act by virtue of the Misuse of Drugs (Modification) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/3932).

Part II of the Schedule specifies certain compounds which are excepted from paragraph 1(e) and (f) of Part I and are therefore not designated by this Order.


Notes:

[1] 1971 c. 38back

[2] see S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1973 No. 504 Art. 5(a)back

[3] 1954 c. 33 (N.I.)back

[4] S.R. 1987 No. 66back

[5] S.R. 1991 No. 2back

[6] S.R. 1995 No. 306back

[7] S.R. 1998 No. 129back



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  © Crown copyright 2001

Prepared 3 January 2002


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