Destruction of controlled drugs

(1) No person who is required by any provision of, or by any term or condition of a licence having effect under these Regulations to keep records with respect to a drug specified in Schedule I, II, III or IV shall destroy such a drug or cause such a drug to be destroyed except in the presence of and in accordance with any directions given by a person authorised (whether personally or as a member of a class), for the purposes of this subregulation by the Minister (hereafter in this Regulation referred to as an “authorised person”), and in accordance with this Part. Schedules I, II, (2) An authorised person may, for the purposes of analysis, take a sample of a drug specified in Schedule I, II, III or IV which is to be destroyed. Schedules I, II, Misuse of Drugs 43 (3) Where a drug specified in Schedule I, II, III or IV is destroyed in pursuance of subregulation (1) by or at the instance of a person who is required by any provision of, or by any term or condition of a licence having effect under these Regulations to keep a record in respect of the obtaining or supply of that drug, that record shall include particulars of the date of destruction and the quantity destroyed and shall be signed by the authorised person in whose presence the drug is destroyed. Schedules I, II, (4) Where the master or owner of a ship, or the installation manager of an offshore installation has in his possession a drug specified in Schedule II which he no longer requires, he shall not destroy the drug or cause it to be destroyed but shall dispose of it to a member of the Belize Police Force or to a person who may lawfully supply that drug to him. (5) Nothing in subregulation (1) or (3) shall apply to any person who is required to keep records only by virtue of regulation 22(2) or (3) or 24(3). (6) Nothing in subregulation (1) or (3) shall apply to the destruction of a drug which has been supplied to a practitioner or chemist and druggist for that purpose in pursuance of regulation 6(2) or (3).