S.I. No. 171/1946 - Dangerous Drugs Act, 1934 (Application of Part IV To Hydrochloride-Of 1-Methyl-4-Phenyl-Piperidine-4-Carboxylic Acid Athyl Ester) Order, 1946.


STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1946. No. 171.

DANGEROUS DRUGS ACT, 1934 (APPLICATION OF PART IV TO HYDROCHLORIDE-OF 1-METHYL-4-PHENYL-PIPERIDINE-4-CARBOXYLIC ACID ATHYL ESTER) ORDER, 1946.

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (2) of section 17 of the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1934 (No. 1 of 1934), as adapted in consequence of the enactment of the Constitution, that if it appears to the Government that any new derivative of morphine or cocaine or of any salts of morphine or cocaine or any other alkaloid of opium or any other drug of whatsoever kind is, or is likely, if improperly used, to be productive of ill-effects substantially of the same character or nature as or analogous to those produced by morphine or cocaine, or is capable of being converted into a substance which is or is likely, if improperly used, to be productive of such ill-effects, the Government may by order under the said subsection declare that such new derivative, alkaloid, or other drug shall be a drug to which Part IV of the said Act applies :

AND WHEREAS it appears to the Government that the drug specified in the Schedule to this Order is likely, if improperly used, to be productive of ill-effects substantially of the same character or nature as or analogous to those produced by morphine.

NOW, the Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by subsection (2) of section 17 of the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1934 (No. 1 of 1934), and of every and any other power them in this behalf enabling, hereby order as follows :

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1934 (Application of Part IV to Hydrochloride-of 1-Methyl-4-Phenyl-Piperidine-4-Carboxylic Acid Ethyl Ester) Order, 1946.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of July, 1946.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3. The drug specified in the Schedule to this Order shall be a drug to which Part IV of the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1934 (No. 1 of 1934) applies.

SCHEDULE.

Hydrochloride-of 1-Methyl-4-Phenyl-Piperidine-4-Carboxylic Acid Ethyl Ester.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government, this 12th day of June, 1946.

(Signed) ÉAMON DE VALÉRA,

Taoiseach.