The Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013
These Regulations amend the Misuse of Drugs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 to provide, in regulations 5 and 6, for the cannabis-based medicine “Sativex” to be placed in Part I of Schedule 4 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002. Regulation 3 inserts new paragraph (5) into regulation 22 which provides that a person, other than those persons specified in new paragraph (6), who is authorised to possess or to destroy, or cause to be destroyed, “Sativex” shall make a record of the quantity possessed or destroyed, and regulation 4 excepts a person who makes such a record under new regulation 22(5) from the requirements relating to the destruction of controlled drugs contained in regulation 27(1) or (3) of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002.