S.I. No. 164/1979:

MISUSE OF DRUGS (LICENCE FEES) REGULATIONS, 1979.

MISUSE OF DRUGS (LICENCE FEES) REGULATIONS, 1979.

The Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 14 and 38 of the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1977 (No. 12 of 1977), hereby makes the following Regulations:--

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Misuse of Drugs (Licence Fees) Regulations, 1979.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 15th day of May, 1979.

3. In these Regulations references to schedules are references to schedules to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations, 1979 ( S.I. No. 32 of 1979 ).

4. (1) A fee as prescribed hereunder shall be payable to the Minister for Health in respect of the grant of a licence under section 14 of the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1977 , in the following cases, that is to say--

( a ) in the case of a licence authorising a person to produce, supply, offer to supply and have in his possession any drug specified in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 or 4 of Schedule 1 or paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 or 8 of Schedule 2, or any preparation or other product containing any proportion of such a drug--a fee of £30 per annum in respect of each class of drugs to which the licence relates;

( b ) in the case of a licence, not being a licence specified in sub-paragraph (a) of this sub-article, authorising a person to produce any preparation or other product containing any proportion of a drug specified in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 or 4 of Schedule 1 or paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 or 8 of Schedule 2 and to supply, offer to supply and have in his possession any drug specified in either of the said Schedules--a fee of £20 per annum in respect of each class of drugs to which the licence relates;

( c ) in the case of a licence, not being a licence specified in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of this sub-article, authorising a person, for the purposes of research only, to produce or have in his possession any drug specified in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 or 4 of Schedule 1 or paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 or 8 of Schedule 2 or any preparation or other product containing any proportion of such a drug--a fee of £20 per annum in respect of each class of drugs to which the licence relates;

( d ) in the case of a licence, not being a licence specified in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of this sub-article, authorising a person to supply, offer to supply and have in his possession any drug specified in Schedule 1 or 2--a fee of £10 per annum in respect of each class of drugs to which the licence relates;

( e ) in the case of a licence, not being a licence specified in sub-paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) of this sub-article, authorising a person to have in his possession any drug specified in Schedule 1 or 2--a fee of £5 per annum in respect of each class of drugs to which the licence relates;

( f ) in the case of a licence authorising a person to import any drug specified in Schedule 1, 2 or 3--a fee of £10 in respect of each class of drugs to which the licence relates.

(2) For the purposes of this article each of the drugs specified in paragraphs 1 and 3 of Schedule 1 and paragraphs 1, 3 and 6 of Schedule 2 (together with its salts) and any preparation or other product containing it or any of its salts shall be treated as a separate class and any stereoisomeric form of a drug or its salts shall be treated as being in the same class as that drug.

5. The Minister for Health may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, remit a licence fee or direct that a lower fee be charged in any particular case or classes of case where, in his opinion, the circumstances justify it.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this 8th day of May, 1979.

CHARLES J. HAUGHEY,

Minister for Health.

The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the making of the foregoing Regulations. Dated this 8th day of May, 1979.

SEOIRSE Ó COLLA,

Minister for Finance.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations prescribe the fees payable to the Minister for Health in respect of certain licences granted under the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1977 .