Caffeine in Solomon Islands: not individually verified

We have not confirmed that Caffeine specifically is scheduled in Solomon Islands, so this page gives no legal status. Publishing a guess here would be worse than publishing nothing. What we do know is the governing national drug law, below.

What is on record

Not confirmed. No entry for caffeine was found in the instruments read. Searched: the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 98) reprint as in force at 1 October 2009 (text); the schedule to the proclamation of 21 September 1987 (LN 101 of 1987) and the further proclamation LN 6 of 1988 (the margin of printed page 2824 reads LN 61/1988, while the heading on page 2821 and the 2025 Rules cite LN 6 of 1988), read from the page images of printed pages 2821 to 2824 of the 1996 Revised Edition; the Pharmacy and Poisons Act (Cap. 105) reprint as in force at 5 February 2024, including Schedule A and Schedule B (the Poisons List, Parts I and II); and the Dangerous Drugs (Methylamphetamine) Rules 2025 (Gazette No. 158, 5 November 2025). Terms searched: caffeine, theine, guarana, coffee, cola, xanthine, stimulant. Result: no entry in the proclamation schedules, the Act, the Poisons List, or Schedule A (the list of articles a licensed storekeeper may sell) of the Pharmacy and Poisons Act. The Poisons Rules in the 1996 Revised Edition were also read: the Fourth Schedule (printed page 3036) prints 'Phenazone and Caffeine Citrate', a named combination entry and not caffeine itself, and caffeine alone is not printed there; the current force of those Rules is not established. The Tobacco Control Act 2010 and the Liquor Act do not address it. The control model is delegated. Section 2 of the Dangerous Drugs Act defines a dangerous drug as any of the substances which may be from time to time subject to the provisions of the Act, and section 13(2) lets the Minister by proclamation apply Part III to further drugs. That power has been exercised more than once (LN 101 of 1987, LN 6 of 1988, and the 2025 Rules made under section 15 and those two proclamations). The reprint lists only Act No. 14 of 2009 in its endnotes and carries no line closing its subsidiary legislation, and proclamations or rules made after the 1996 edition were not all read. A Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2025 is reported as before Parliament and was not read; a Bill is not law. Absence from the instruments read is therefore not a finding that caffeine is uncontrolled, legal or unregulated, and no verdict is given. Not established: whether any instrument not read names it.

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