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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/misuse-of-drugs-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2014/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2014/21",
  "legislation_title": "The Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/misuse-of-drugs-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2014",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations add, in regulation 3, 2-((dimethylamino)methyl)-1-(3-hydroxyphenyl)cyclohexanol, commonly known as O-desmethyltramadol, to paragraph 1(a) of Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002. Regulations 4 and 5 add new categories of synthetic cannabinoids in substituted sub-paragraphs (h), (i), (j) and (k), and new sub-paragraphs (la), (lb) and (lc), of paragraph 1 respectively. Regulation 6 adds 2-(ethylamino)-2-(3-methoxyphenyl)cyclohexanone, commonly known as methoxetamine, and other compounds related to ketamine and phencyclidine, in new paragraph 1(p). Regulation 7 substitutes a new paragraph 3 with the effect that an ester or ether of O-desmethyltramadol is not specified in Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/21/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:08:23.222515+00:00"
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  "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."
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