Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Amendment of First Schedule) (No. 2)

L.N. 120 of 2021

DANGEROUS DRUGS ORDINANCE

(CAP. 101)

Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Amendment of First Schedule) (No. 2)

Order, 2021

IN EXERCISE of the power conferred by article 10(3) of the

Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, the Minister for Health, has made the

following order:-

(1) The title of this order is Dangerous Drugs Ordinance

(Amendment of First Schedule) (No. 2) Order, 2021 and this order

shall be read and construed as one with the First Schedule to the

Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, which First Schedule is hereinafter in

this order referred to as "the First Schedule".

(2) This order implements Commission Delegated Directive

(EU) 2020/1687 of 2 September 2020 amending the Annex to Council

Framework Decision 2004/757/JHA as regards the inclusion of the

new

psychoactive

substance

N,N-diethyl-2-[[4-(1-

methylethoxy)phenyl]methyl]-5-nitro-1H-

benzimidazole-1-

ethanamine (isotonitazene) in the definition of "drug".

Immediately after the item "ISOMETHADONE" of Part I

of the First Schedule, there shall be added the following new item

"ISOTONITAZENE,

N,N-diethyl-2-[[4-(1-

methylethoxy)phenyl]methyl]-5-nitro-1H-

benzimidazole-1-

ethanamine".

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