Controlled. Codeine is named in Schedule 2 Part I paragraph 1 of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 23 (printed page 25), which prints the entry 'Codeine.', so Part IV applies to it under section 13(1). Paragraph 3 (page 26) adds 'Any salt of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 or 2', and paragraph 8 reaches 'Any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of' a paragraph 1 substance. Related named entries on the same list include Acetyldihydrocodeine, Dihydrocodeine (page 25) and Norcodeine (page 26), which are separate substances. This is the text as in force in the 1977 Revised Edition, as amended by the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Acts 1995 and 2001. It does not rule out a later amendment or a later order under section 13(2), by which the Minister may modify Schedule 2 (page 8), and no such order was read.
Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 23, Revised Edition 1977, Schedule 2 Part I and sections 13, 14, 20, 22, 24, 27, 29 and 39 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Dangerous Drugs Regulations L.N. 19/80, regulations 3, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12 and 16 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 1995, section 8A · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2001 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, Cap. 70, 1977 Edition, Schedule 3 Poisons List and sections 53 to 57 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Medical Services Act 1996, section 42 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Customs Act 2019, Schedules 3 and 4 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Verified October 7, 2026
Controlled. Fentanyl is named in Schedule 2 Part I paragraph 1 of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 23 (printed page 25), which prints the entry 'Fentanyl.', so Part IV applies to it under section 13(1). Paragraph 3 (page 26) adds 'Any salt of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 or 2', and paragraph 8 reaches any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of a paragraph 1 substance. No fentanyl analogue is named in the list, so this entry speaks only to fentanyl and its salts and preparations, not to analogues. This is the text as in force in the 1977 Revised Edition, as amended by the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Acts 1995 and 2001. It does not rule out a later amendment or a later order under section 13(2), by which the Minister may modify Schedule 2 (page 8), and no such order was read.
Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 23, Revised Edition 1977, Schedule 2 Part I and sections 13, 14, 20, 22, 24, 27, 29 and 39 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Dangerous Drugs Regulations L.N. 19/80, regulations 3, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12 and 16 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 1995, section 8A · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2001 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, Cap. 70, 1977 Edition, Schedule 3 Poisons List and sections 53 to 57 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Medical Services Act 1996, section 42 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Customs Act 2019, Schedules 3 and 4 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Verified October 7, 2026
Controlled. Heroin is controlled under its chemical name diamorphine: Schedule 2 Part I paragraph 1 of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 23 (printed page 25) prints the entry 'Diamorphine.', and section 2 (page 4) defines 'diacetylmorphine' as 'diacetylmorphine (diamorphine, heroin)' with the formula C21H23O5N, so the Ordinance itself equates the two names. Part IV therefore applies to heroin under section 13(1). Paragraph 3 (page 26) adds 'Any salt of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 or 2', and paragraph 8 reaches any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of a paragraph 1 substance. This is the text as in force in the 1977 Revised Edition, as amended by the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Acts 1995 and 2001. It does not rule out a later amendment or a later order under section 13(2), by which the Minister may modify Schedule 2 (page 8), and no such order was read.
Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 23, Revised Edition 1977, Schedule 2 Part I and sections 13, 14, 20, 22, 24, 27, 29 and 39 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Dangerous Drugs Regulations L.N. 19/80, regulations 3, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12 and 16 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 1995, section 8A · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2001 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, Cap. 70, 1977 Edition, Schedule 3 Poisons List and sections 53 to 57 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Medical Services Act 1996, section 42 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Customs Act 2019, Schedules 3 and 4 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Verified October 7, 2026
Controlled. Hydrocodone is named in Schedule 2 Part I paragraph 1 of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 23 (printed page 25), which prints the entry 'Hydrocodone (dihydrocodeinone).', so Part IV applies to it under section 13(1). Paragraph 3 (page 26) adds 'Any salt of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 or 2', and paragraph 8 reaches any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of a paragraph 1 substance. This is the text as in force in the 1977 Revised Edition, as amended by the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Acts 1995 and 2001. It does not rule out a later amendment or a later order under section 13(2), by which the Minister may modify Schedule 2 (page 8), and no such order was read.
Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 23, Revised Edition 1977, Schedule 2 Part I and sections 13, 14, 20, 22, 24, 27, 29 and 39 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Dangerous Drugs Regulations L.N. 19/80, regulations 3, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12 and 16 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 1995, section 8A · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2001 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, Cap. 70, 1977 Edition, Schedule 3 Poisons List and sections 53 to 57 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Medical Services Act 1996, section 42 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Customs Act 2019, Schedules 3 and 4 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Verified October 7, 2026
Controlled. Methadone is named in Schedule 2 Part I paragraph 1 of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 23 (printed page 26), which prints the entry 'Methadone.', so Part IV applies to it under section 13(1). Related entries named separately on the list include Isomethadone (page 25), Methadyl acetate, Normethadone and Noracymethadol (page 26). Paragraph 3 (page 26) adds 'Any salt of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 or 2', and paragraph 8 reaches any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of a paragraph 1 substance. This is the text as in force in the 1977 Revised Edition, as amended by the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Acts 1995 and 2001. It does not rule out a later amendment or a later order under section 13(2), by which the Minister may modify Schedule 2 (page 8), and no such order was read.
Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 23, Revised Edition 1977, Schedule 2 Part I and sections 13, 14, 20, 22, 24, 27, 29 and 39 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Dangerous Drugs Regulations L.N. 19/80, regulations 3, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12 and 16 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 1995, section 8A · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2001 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, Cap. 70, 1977 Edition, Schedule 3 Poisons List and sections 53 to 57 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Medical Services Act 1996, section 42 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Customs Act 2019, Schedules 3 and 4 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Verified October 7, 2026
Controlled. Morphine is named in the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 23, Laws of the Gilbert Islands, Revised Edition 1977, as amended by the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Acts 1995 and 2001. Schedule 2, Part I, paragraph 1, printed page 26, prints the entry "Morphine." and, beside it, "Morphine methobromide, morphine-N-oxide and other pentavalent nitrogen morphine derivatives." Section 13(1), printed page 8, applies Part IV, headed Medicinal Opium, Morphine, Cocaine and Certain Other Drugs, to "the substances for the time being specified in Part I of Schedule 2". Paragraph 8, page 26, reaches "Any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of a substance" specified in paragraph 1 or in paragraphs 2 to 7. Part II of the Schedule, printed page 27, paragraph 11, prints: "A preparation of medicinal opium or of morphine containing (in either case) not more than 0.2 per cent of morphine calculated as anhydrous morphine base, being a preparation compounded with 1 or more other ingredients in such a way that the preparation has no, or a negligible, risk of abuse and that the opium or, as the case may be, the morphine, cannot be recovered by readily applicable means or in a yield which would constitute a risk to health." Section 30, printed page 12, reads: "The provisions of sections 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 shall not apply to any preparation or other substance for the time being falling within Part II of Schedule 2." Section 20 (possession) and the import sections 27 to 29 are in that range, although the heading of Part II of the Schedule speaks only of importation and exportation being excepted from control. Section 30 disapplies section 20 for a preparation within Part II of Schedule 2. Section 30 does not name section 13, section 15 or the Regulations. Whether regulation 6(1) of L.N. 19/80 reaches a Part II preparation is not stated. The Schedule can be altered by ministerial order under section 13(2), printed page 8, so the entry is the 1977 list and not a current one. The Dangerous Drugs Ordinance was read as in force in the 1977 Revised Edition as amended to the Acts of 1995 and 2001, and this text does not rule out a later amendment or a later order under section 13(2).
Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 23, Laws of the Gilbert Islands, Revised Edition 1977, sections 13 and 39 and Schedule 2 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 1995 (Act No. 8 of 1995) · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2001 (Act No. 14 of 2001) · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Dangerous Drugs Regulations, L.N. 19/80, regulations 2 to 6 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, Cap. 70, Revised Edition 1977, section 53 and Schedule 3 Poisons List · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Medical Services Act 1996 (Act No. 14 of 1996), section 42 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Customs Act 2019, Schedules 3 and 4 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Verified October 7, 2026
Controlled. Oxycodone is named in the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 23, Laws of the Gilbert Islands, Revised Edition 1977, as amended by the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Acts 1995 and 2001. Schedule 2, Part I, paragraph 1, printed page 26, prints the entry "Oxycodone." next to "Oxymorphone." Section 13(1), printed page 8, applies Part IV to "the substances for the time being specified in Part I of Schedule 2", and paragraph 8, page 26, reaches "Any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of a substance" specified in paragraph 1. Paragraph 2, page 26, adds any ester or ether of a paragraph 1 substance other than one expressly mentioned, and paragraph 3 adds any salt. Section 30, printed page 12, reads: "The provisions of sections 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 shall not apply to any preparation or other substance for the time being falling within Part II of Schedule 2." The low strength preparations printed in Part II, paragraphs 9 to 14, pages 26 and 27, name acetyldihydrocodeine, codeine, dextropropoxyphene, dihydrocodeine, ethylmorphine, norcodeine and pholcodine, cocaine, medicinal opium and morphine, diphenoxylate and a compound ipecacuanha and opium powder. Oxycodone is not among them, so section 30 does not on its face carve out an oxycodone preparation. The Schedule can be altered by ministerial order under section 13(2), printed page 8, so the entry is the 1977 list and not a current one. The Dangerous Drugs Ordinance was read as in force in the 1977 Revised Edition as amended to the Acts of 1995 and 2001, and this text does not rule out a later amendment or a later order under section 13(2).
Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 23, Laws of the Gilbert Islands, Revised Edition 1977, sections 13 and 39 and Schedule 2 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 1995 (Act No. 8 of 1995) · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2001 (Act No. 14 of 2001) · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Dangerous Drugs Regulations, L.N. 19/80, regulations 2 to 6 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, Cap. 70, Revised Edition 1977, section 53 and Schedule 3 Poisons List · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Medical Services Act 1996 (Act No. 14 of 1996), section 42 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Customs Act 2019, Schedules 3 and 4 · kiribati.tradeportal.org · Verified October 7, 2026
