Regulation 2

The Misuse of Drugs (Safe Custody) Regulations 1973^f1 shall be amended as follows.

In Schedule 1, after paragraph 3 there shall be added the following paragraph:

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Any preparation or other product consisting of one or more component parts, any of which contains a controlled drug, where–

(a)

the preparation or other product is not designed for administration of the controlled drug to a human being or animal;

(b)

the controlled drug in any component part is packaged in such a form, or in combination with any other active or inert substances in such a manner, that it cannot be recovered by readily applicable means or in a yield which constitutes a risk to health; and

(c)

no one component part of the product or preparation contains more than one milligram of the controlled drug or one microgram in the case of lysergide or any other N-alkyl derivative of lysergamide.”.