Parliament of the United Kingdom

“ A tribunal shall consist of five persons of whom—
(a) one shall be a barrister, advocate or solicitor of not less than seven years’ standing appointed by the Lord Chancellor to be the chairman of the tribunal; and (b) the other four shall be persons appointed by the Secretary of State from among members of the respondent’s profession nominated for the purposes of this Schedule by any of the relevant bodies mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) below. ”

“ For the purpose of any proceedings before a tribunal in England or Wales or Northern Ireland the tribunal may administer oaths and any party to the proceedings may sue out writs of subpoena ad testificandum and duces tecum, but no person shall be compelled under any such writ to give any evidence or produce any document which he could not be compelled to give or produce on the trial of an action.
(2) The provisions of section 49 of the 1925 c. 49. ”

“ A direction under this subsection in respect of a person shall—
(a) if that person is a practitioner, be a direction prohibiting him from having in his possession, prescribing, administering, manufacturing, compounding and supplying and from authorising the administration and supply of such controlled drugs as may be specified in the direction ”

“ Her Majesty may by Order in Council make such amendments in Schedule 2 to this Act as may be requisite for the purpose of adding any substance or product to, or removing any substance or product from, any of Parts I to III of that Schedule, including amendments for securing that no substance or product is for the time being specified in a particular one of those Parts or for inserting any substance or product into any of those Parts in which no substance or product is for the time being specified. ”

“ In this Act “the respondent”, in relation to a reference under this section, means the doctor or other practitioner in respect of whom the reference is made.
(3) Where—
(a) in the case of a reference relating to the giving of a direction under the said subsection (1) , the tribunal finds that there has been no such contravention as aforesaid by the respondent or finds that there has been such a contravention but does not recommend the giving of a direction under that subsection in respect of the respondent ”

“ In its application to Northern Ireland subsection (3) above shall have effect as if the words “acting for the police area in which the premises are situated” were omitted.
Power of arrest. 24.— (1) A constable may arrest without warrant a person who has committed, or whom the constable, with reasonable cause, suspects to have committed, an offence under this Act, if—
(a) he, with reasonable cause, believes that that person will abscond unless arrested; or (b) the name and address of that person are unknown to, and cannot be ascertained by, him ”

“ Cocaine. Desomorphine. Dextromoramide. Diamorphine. Diampromide. Diethylthiambutene. Dihydrocodeinone O-carboxymethyloxime. Dihydromorphine. Dimenoxadole. Dimepheptanol. Dimethylthiambutene. Dioxaphetyl butyrate. Diphenoxylate. Dipipanone. Ecgonine, and any derivative of ecgonine which is convertible to ecgonine or to cocaine. Ethylmethylthiambutene. Etonitazene. ”