{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fines-and-penalties-northern-ireland-order-1984/schedule-1/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fines-and-penalties-northern-ireland-order-1984/schedule-1/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1984/703",
  "legislation_title": "The Fines and Penalties (Northern Ireland) Order 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fines-and-penalties-northern-ireland-order-1984",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The offences in that Act of 1971 to which (as provided in Article 4(9)) Article 4(1) does not apply are—\n(a) offences under section 5(2) (having possession of a controlled drug) where the controlled drug in relation to which the offence was committed was a Class B or Class C drug;\n(b) offences under the following provisions, where the controlled drug in relation to which the offence was committed was a Class C drug, namely—\n(i) section 4(2) (production, or being concerned in the production, of a controlled drug);\n(ii) section 4(3) (supplying or offering a controlled drug or being concerned in the doing of either activity by another);\n(iii) section 5(3) (having possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply it to another);\n(iv) section 8 (being the occupier, or concerned in the management, of premises and permitting or suffering certain activities to take place there);\n(v) section 12(6) (contravention of direction prohibiting practitioner etc. from possessing, supplying etc. controlled drugs); or\n(vi) section 13(3) (contravention of direction prohibiting practitioner etc. from prescribing, supplying etc. controlled drugs).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1986 NI 15"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1984/703/schedule/1/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:49:09.024048+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}