Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NARCOTIC DRUGS ACT 1967 - SECOND SCHEDULE

Section 5

1.      The Secretary-General of the United Nations presents his compliments to the Minister for External Affairs and with reference to the Secretary-General's circular note, reference C.N.212.1964. TREATIES-17 of 20 November 1964, advising that the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, will come into force on 13 December 1964, has the honour to communicate the attached amendments to the Schedules of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961. These amendments were adopted by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs of the Economic and Social Council at its nineteenth session (see Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, Thirty-seventh Session, document E/3893, paragraphs 157 and 158), pursuant to recommendations by the World Health Organization.

2.      It was understood that in accordance with Article 3, paragraph 7, of the 1961 Convention, this decision should be communicated as soon as the Convention comes into force by the Secretary-General to all States Members of the United Nations, to Non-Member States Parties to this Convention, to the World Health Organization and to the Permanent Central Opium Board and Drug Supervisory Body, and that the decision would become effective with respect to each Party on the date of its receipt of such communication. The Parties would thereupon take such action as might be required under the Convention.

Schedule I

The following items should be added:

Fentanyl [1-phenethyl-4-N-propionylanilinopiperidine];

Methadone-intermediate [4-cyano-2-dimethylamino-4, 4-diphenylbutane];

Moramide-intermediate [2-methyl-3-morpholino-1,1-diphenylpropane-carboxylic acid];

Noracymethadol [( ± )-alpha-3-acetoxy-6-methylamino-4, 4-diphenylheptane];

Norpipanone [4,4-diphenyl-6-piperidine-3-hexanone];

Pethidine-intermediate-A [4-cyano-1-methyl-4-phenylpiperidine];

Pethidine-intermediate-B [4-phenylpiperidine-4-carboxylic acid ethyl ester];

Pethidine-intermediate-C [1-methyl-4-phenylpiperidine-4-carboxylic acid]; 

Schedule II

Nicocodine (6-nicotinylcodeine) should be added.

Dextropropoxyphene [(+)-4-dimethylamino-3-methyl-1, 2-diphenyl-2-propionoxybutane] should be deleted.

Schedule III

Of the substances listed in section (1), dextropropoxyphene should be deleted.

COMMUNICATION OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS DATED

2 FEBRUARY, 1966

The Secretary-General of the United Nations presents his compliments to the Minister for External Affairs of Australia and has the honour to communicate, in accordance with article 3, paragraph 7, of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, an amendment to Schedule I of this Convention, namely, the addition to that Schedule of the following substance:

1-(3-cyano-3, 3-diphenylpropyl)-4-(1-piperidino) piperidine-4-carboxylic acid amide (the proposed international non-proprietary name of which is piritramide) and its salts.

This amendment was adopted by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs of the Economic and Social Council at its twentieth session (document E/4140, paragraph 54).

The attention of Governments is drawn to article 3, paragraph 7, of the Convention under which such decision of the Commission shall become effective with respect to each Party on the date of its receipt of such communication, and the Parties shall thereupon take such action as may be required under this Convention.

COMMUNICATION OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS DATED

19 OCTOBER, 1966

The Secretary-General of the United Nations presents his compliments to the Minister for External Affairs of Australia and with reference to his note dated 17 June 1966, (NAR/CL.5/1966) has the honour to state that the Commission on Narcotic Drugs has decided that the substances M.183 (the proposed international non-proprietary name of which is acetorphine) and M.99 (the proposed international non-proprietary name of which is etorphine) should be added to Schedule I of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, and that the substance M.285 (the proposed international non-proprietary name of which is cyprenorphine) should not be placed on any of the Schedules of the 1961 Convention.

The decision of the Commission was taken pursuant to the recommendations of the World Health Organization under Article 3 of the 1961 Convention and in accordance with the procedure adopted by the Commission at its twentieth session (Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, Fortieth session, Supplement No. 2; document E/4140, Resolution 1 (XX)).

The attention of governments is drawn to Article 3, paragraph 7, of the 1961 Convention by which such decision "shall become effective with respect to each Party on the date of its receipt of such communication, and the Parties shall thereupon take such action as may be required under this Convention".

COMMUNICATION OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS DATED

20 JANUARY, 1966

The Secretary-General of the United Nations presents his compliments to the Minister for External Affairs of Australia and has the honour to communicate the following amendments to Schedule III of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, which were adopted by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs of the Economic and Social Council at its twenty-first session, 5-21 December 1966, following upon recommendations made by the World Health Organization:

List of preparations included in Schedule III

1.   Section 1 ( a ) and ( b ) are deleted and replaced by the following: "When compounded with one or more other ingredients and containing not more than 100 milligrams of the drug per dosage unit and with a concentration of not more than 2.5 per cent in undivided preparations".

2.   In section 2 delete the words "in such a way that the preparation has no, or a negligible risk of abuse, and", so that the paragraph reads as follows: "Preparations of cocaine containing not more than 0.1 per cent of cocaine calculated as cocaine base and preparations of opium or morphine containing not more than 0.2 per cent of morphine calculated as anhydrous morphine base and compounded with one or more other ingredients in such a way that the drug cannot be recovered by readily applicable means or in a yield which would constitute a risk to public health."

3.   In section 3 delete the words "Solid dose".

The Secretary-General has the honour to invite attention to Article 3, paragraph 7 of the 1961 Convention whereby the above decisions would become effective with respect to each Party on the date of its receipt of such communication, and the Parties would thereupon take such action as might be required under the Convention.