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The Controlled Drugs (Substances Useful for Manufacture) (Intra-Community Trade) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

S.I. 2001/3683 · Made 14 November 2001

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DANGEROUS DRUGS

Made 14th November 2001

Laid before Parliament 21st November2001

Coming into force 12th December 2001

The Secretary of State, being a Minister designatedf1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972f2 in relation to the notification and control of substances and the control of the import and export of goods, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by that section, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1981/1536 and S.I. 1983/1706.

f2

1972 c. 68.

Contents

  1. 1Regulation 1
  2. 2Regulation 2
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Controlled Drugs (Substances Useful for Manufacture) (Intra-Community Trade) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 12th December 2001.

2

Schedule 1 to the Controlled Drugs (Substances Useful for Manufacture) (Intra-Community Trade) Regulations 1993f1, which specifies scheduled substances for the purposes of regulation 2 of those Regulations, shall be amended by the insertion in Category 1 of that Schedule before the words “1-phenyl-2-propanone” of the word “Norephedrine”.

Signature

Bob Ainsworth

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Home Office

14th November 2001

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The purpose of these Regulations is to include the substance norephedrine in Category 1 of Schedule 1 to the Controlled Drugs (Substances Useful for Manufacture) (Intra-Community Trade) Regulations 1993 in accordance with Council Directive 92/109/EEC (as amended by Commission Directive 2001/8/EC) and with the decision taken by the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in March 2000 to include norephedrine in Table 1 of the Annex to the 1988 UN Convention (the Vienna Convention).