Specifying drugs as temporarily listed drugs in Fifth Schedule
58A.—(1) The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, amend the Fifth Schedule by specifying any drug as a temporarily listed drug in that Schedule if that drug is not specified in Part I, II or III of the First Schedule.
(2) Any drug specified in the Fifth Schedule on the date of commencement of section 23 of the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act 2012, or any additional drug specified under subsection (1) as a temporarily listed drug, shall be deleted from the Fifth Schedule —
(a)
at the expiry of a period of 12 months commencing from the date the drug is so specified (referred to in this section as the initial period); or
(b)
at the expiry of a period of 24 months commencing from the date the drug is so specified, if before the expiry of the initial period, the Minister states, by notification published in the Gazette, that the drug shall remain a temporarily listed drug for a further period.
(3) Before the expiry of the period referred to in subsection (2)(a) or (b), the Minister may amend the Fifth Schedule by deleting any drug specified in that Schedule.