STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

S.I. No. 41 of 2003

Misuse of Drugs (Scheduled Substances) (Amendment) Regulations, 2003

DUBLIN

PUBLISHED BY THE STATIONERY OFFICE

S.I. No. 41 of 2003

Misuse of Drugs (Scheduled Substances) (Amendment) Regulations, 2003

I, Micheál Martin, Minister for Health and Children, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 4, 5 and 38 of the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1977 (No. 12 of 1977 ), as adapted by the Health (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1997 (S.I. No. 308 of 1997 ), hereby make the following Regulations:

1.         These Regulations may be cited as the Misuse of Drugs (Scheduled Substances) (Amendment) Regulations, 2003 and shall come into force on the 4^th day of February, 2003.

2.         These Regulations shall be construed as one with the Misuse of Drugs (Scheduled Substances) Regulations, 1993 (S.I.No. 338 of 1993 ) and may be cited with those Regulations as the Misuse of Drugs (Scheduled Substances) Regulations, 1993 and 2003.

3.         The Misuse of Drugs (Scheduled Substances) Regulations, 1993 are hereby amended by the insertion in paragraph 1 of Category 1 of the First Schedule thereto of the substance Norephedrine (otherwise known as Phenylpropanolamine).

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation)

The purpose of these Regulations is to implement Council Directive 2001/8/EC of the 8 February 2001 (OJ No. L.39, 09.02.2001, p. 39), which amended Council Directive 92/109/EEC (OJ No. L.370, 19.12.1992, p. 76), on the manufacture and placing on the market of certain substances used in the illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.

The substance norephedrine (otherwise known as phenylpropanolamine) and its salts are being added to the list of substances in Category 1 of the First Schedule to the Regulations. The effect of this is to place restrictions on the production, supply, importation and exportation of the substances concerned.