{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/misuse-of-drugs-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/misuse-of-drugs-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/916",
  "legislation_title": "The Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/misuse-of-drugs-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Misuse of Drugs Regulations 1985shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.\n(2) In regulation 6(4), for“Schedule 3” there shall be substituted“Schedule 2 or 3”.\n(3) For regulation 14(7) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:\n“(7) Nothing in this regulation shall have effect in relation to—\n(a) the drugs specified in Schedules 4 and 5 or poppy straw;\n(b) any drug specified in Schedule 3 contained in or comprising a preparation which—\n(i) is required for use as a buffering agent in chemical analysis,\n(ii) has present in it both a substance specified in paragraph 1 or 2 of that Schedule and a salt of that substance, and\n(iii) is premixed in a kit.”.\n(4) In regulation 18(2), after sub-paragraph (a) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph:\n“(aa) any drug specified in Schedule 3 contained in or comprising a preparation which—\n(i) is required for use as a buffering agent in chemical analysis,\n(ii) has present in it both a substance specified in paragraph 1 or 2 of that Schedule and a salt of that substance, and\n(iii) is premixed in a kit;”.\n(5) In paragraph 6 of Schedule 2, after“Propiram” there shall be inserted“Quinalbarbitone”.\n(6) In paragraph 1(b) of Schedule 3, there shall be added at the end the words“not being quinalbarbitone”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1985/2066, as amended by S.I. 1986/2330."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/916/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:06:17.119085+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."
}