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Statutory Instruments

1995 No. 1966

DANGEROUS DRUGS

The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Modification) Order 1995

Made

26th July 1995

Coming into force

1st September 1995

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 26th day of July 1995

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament on the recommendation of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of section 2(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Modification) Order 1995 and shall come into force on 1st September 1995.

2.  Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971(2) (which specifies the drugs which are subject to control under that Act) shall be amended by the omission, from paragraph 1 of Part III of that Schedule, of the word “Propylhexedrine”.

3.  Article 2(3)(d) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Modification) Order 1986(3) shall be amended by the substitution, for the words

the words “Propylhexedrine” and “Pyrovalerone”, of the words

the word “Pyrovalerone”.

N. H. Nicholls

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order removes from Part III of Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (which specifies the Class C drugs which are subject to control under that Act) Propylhexedrine.

(3)

S.I. 1986/2230.