Is Alcohol legal in Oman?

Also known as: booze

Legal status

Not a controlled substance under the Law on Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances issued by Royal Decree 67/2026. Alcohol is in none of the four groups annexed to it, as the dossier records its search: «سجل البحث الخاص بـ alcohol: لم يوجد قيد مطابق في المجموعات الأربع الملحقة», “Completed annex search: no exact alcohol entry”. Article 5 lets the Minister add a substance by decision, so this is a reading as of 20 September 2026, and rules outside this law were not read.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none under this law for alcohol as read. The source read assigns no penalty under the Law on Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances issued by Royal Decree 67/2026 to a substance outside its annex, and alcohol is in none of its tables as the dossier records them. Article 5 lets the Minister add a substance by decision, so this holds as of 20 September 2026 only, and it is not a statement that alcohol is lawful under medicines, product, customs or other law, which was not read for this cell.

If prescribed or medical

This law sets no prescription rule for alcohol, because alcohol is outside its annex as read. Medicines, product and import rules sit outside it and were not read for this cell.

Documentation

This law asks for no document for alcohol, because alcohol is outside its annex as read. Medicines, customs and product rules are separate and were not read for this cell. Where the rule comes from. The law changed in September 2026. Royal Decree 67/2026 was issued on 3 September 2026. Its Article III repeals the Law on Combating Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances issued by Royal Decree 17/99, and its Article IV brings the decree, and with it the new law, into force on the day after its publication in the Official Gazette. Decree.om and the dossier this cell was authored from both record that publication as issue 1664 of 6 September 2026, so the law took effect on 7 September 2026. Article II keeps existing regulations and decisions running until replacements issue, «وإلى أن تصدر يستمر العمل باللوائح والقرارات القائمة، بما لا يتعارض مع أحكامه», so far as they do not conflict with its provisions. The decree's own articles were read in the text the Oman News Agency published on 3 September 2026. The attached law and its annex were read only through the verbatim quotations in the dossier dated 20 September 2026, because on 3 October 2026 qanoon.om served a Cloudflare challenge in place of the text, the web archive held no copy, and decree.om carried the decree's Articles I to IV and its Gazette reference but not the attached law, which it said would be uploaded shortly. Article 5 of the law, as that dossier quotes it, provides «يجوز بقرار من الوزير تعديل المجموعات الملحقة بهذا القانون بالحذف أو الإضافة أو تغيير النسب أو الكميات كلما اقتضت الضرورة ذلك», the Minister may by decision amend the annexed groups by deletion, by addition or by changing percentages or quantities whenever necessary. It takes the place of article 4 of the 1999 law, «يجوز بقرار من الوزير تعديل المجموعات الملحقة بهذا القانون بالحذف أو الإضافة أو تغيير النسب كلما اقتضت الظروف ذلك», which gave the same power without the word for quantities and with «الظروف», circumstances, where the 2026 text has «الضرورة», necessity. So a reading of the annex is a reading as of a date, and this one runs to 20 September 2026. Placement for Alcohol: none in the 2026 annex as read. Under the 1999 law this page recorded: in no table of this law. The 1999 placements in this cell are this page's earlier reading and are not printed in the quoted extract the dossier carries for this row.

Drug laws and enforcement change and vary within a country. This is not legal advice. Always confirm with Oman’s embassy or official drug authority before traveling; penalties can be severe, including imprisonment.