Section 3: Classification of dangerous drugs

3. Classification of dangerous drugs (1) Each of the dangerous drugs to which this Act applies is listed in either the First, Second or Third Schedule and different measures of control are specified in this Act according to the classification so adopted, dependent upon the degree of seriousness of the risk to public health of each such dangerous drug and the presence or otherwise of a medical use for it. continued on page D5 – 5 D2 – 4 (1) [Issue 4] Revised Laws of Mauritius (2) All substances used in the manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances as classified by the 1988 Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, or otherwise, are included as precursors in the Fourth Schedule. (3) Plants and substances are included in the appropriate Schedule under their respective international non-proprietary names, or, lacking such a name, under their chemical names. (4) Solid or liquid mixtures containing one or more substances governed by this Act, when divided into dosage units, are deemed to be preparations of dangerous drugs and subject to the same conditions as the substances they contain and preparations containing 2 or more substances subject to different conditions shall be subject to those conditions governing the most strictly controlled of their constituent substances. (5) The Minister may, by regulations under section 60, exempt preparations containing a substance listed in the Second, Third or Fourth Schedule from such measure of control provided in this Act as may be specified in those regulations, when he is satisfied that those preparations are so compounded as to present no or no significant risk of abuse and that the substance cannot be readily recovered from them in a quantity sufficient to present such a risk.