AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

PUBLIC HEALTH (PROHIBITED DRUGS) REGULATIONS

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 1 of 1965

	The Public Health (Prohibited Drugs) Ordinance prohibits absolutely the manufacture, preparation, use, sale, disposal or possession of any drug or substance which is prescribed as a prohibited drug by the Public Health (Prohibited Drugs) Regulations, made under that Ordinance.

2.	Arising out of a recommendation by the International Drug Conventions held under the auspices of the United Nations Organisation, it has become necessary to add cannabis and ketobemidone to the list of drugs prescribed as prohibited drugs under these Regulations.

3.	The effect of attached regulations is to repeal the existing Public Health (Prohibited Drugs) Regulations and replace them with new regulations, which add cannabis and ketobemidone to the list of prohibited drugs.