{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/misuse-of-drugs-designation-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2013/article-4",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2013/77",
  "legislation_title": "The Misuse of Drugs (Designation) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/misuse-of-drugs-designation-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2013",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment to the Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "text": "After paragraph 3 of Part II of the Schedule (which specifies controlled drugs excepted from Part I) insert—\n“4. A liquid formulation—\n(a) containing a botanical extract of cannabis—\n(i) with a concentration of not more than 30 milligrams of cannabidiol per millilitre, and not more than 30 milligrams of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol per millilitre, and\n(ii) where the ratio of cannabidiol to delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol is between 0.7 and 1.3,\n(b) which is dispensed through a metered dose pump as a mucosal mouth spray, and\n(c) which was approved for marketing by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency on 16th June 2010”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 3 was inserted by article 4 of S.R. 2009 No.389."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The approval may be accessed at http://www.mhra.gov.uk/home/groups/par/documents/websiteresources/con084961.pdf."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2013/77/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:11:32.589955+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."
}