2.—(1) Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971(1) (which specifies the drugs which are subject to control under that Act) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 1 of Part III of that Schedule

(a)the list of substances and products beginning with“Alprazolam”and ending with “Triazolam”shall be designated sub-paragraph (a), and accordingly “(a)”shall be inserted before “Alprazolam”; and

(b)there shall be added at the end the following sub-paragraphs —

(b)Atamestane.

(c)any compound (not being Trilostane or a compound for the time being specified in sub-paragraph (b) above) structurally derived from 17-hydroxyandrostan-3-one or from 17-hydroxyestran-3-one by modification in any of the following ways, that is to say,

(i)by further substitution at position 17 by a methyl or ethyl group;

(ii)by substitution to any extent at one or more of positions 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11 or 16, but at no other position;

(iii)by unsaturation in the carbocyclic ring system to any extent, provided that there are no more than two ethylenic bonds in any one carbocyclic ring;

(iv)by fusion of ring A with a heterocyclic system;

(d)any substance which is an ester or ether (or, where more than one hydroxyl function is available, both an ester and an ether) of a substance specified in sub-paragraph (b) or described in sub-paragraph (c) above;

(e)Chorionic Gonadotrophin (HCG).

(1)

Schedule 2 has been amended by S.I. 1973/771, 1975/421, 1977/1243, 1979/299, 1983/765, 1984/859, 1985/1995, 1986/2230, 1989/1340, 1990/2589 and 1995/1966.