Regulation 2

The Misuse of Drugs Regulations 1985^f1shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

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

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;”.

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

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