Diazepam in Solomon Islands: not individually verified

Also known as: valium

We have not confirmed that Diazepam 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. The Poisons Rules under the Pharmacy and Poisons Act (Cap. 105) in the 1996 Revised Edition print 'Diazepam' in the Fourth Schedule (printed page 3025), listed in its own right with no strength exception, and whether those Rules are still in force is not established. Rule 11(1) of the Poisons Rules (printed page 3004) reads 'It shall not be lawful to sell any poison included in the Fourth Schedule to these Rules except on and in accordance with the prescription given by a registered medical practitioner, registered dentist or a qualified veterinary surgeon in the form provided by this rule', and rule 11(2) applies the rule to a sale even where it is a transaction exempted by section 57 of the Act. If the Rules are in force, diazepam is a prescription only sale item, but that is not confirmed here. Whether these Rules are still in force is not established: the copy read is the 1996 Revised Edition (margin notes to LN 63 of 1988), the 2024 reprint of the Act keeps the rule making power in section 61 but does not print the Rules, its endnotes record repeals of sections 16 to 26, 28 to 32 and 35 by Act No. 5 of 1997 and amendments in 2009 and 2023, and nothing read states that the Rules were amended or revoked. Diazepam is a single compound. It is not named in the Dangerous Drugs proclamations read (searched as diazepam, benzodiazepine and the endings 'azepam', 'zepam' and 'azolam'; no such entry is printed in the schedule pages), and the Poisons List in Schedule B does not name it. Other benzodiazepines are printed in the same Fourth Schedule as separate entries ('Bromazepam', 'Clobazam', 'Clonazepam', 'Lorazepam', 'Nitrazepam', 'Temazepam' and others), so each member of that range has to be read for its own entry and this answer is for diazepam only. Section 2 of the Act reads 'poison includes the several substances mentioned in the poisons list in Schedule B', and rule 2(1) of the Poisons Rules (printed pages 3000 and 3001) defines 'poisons list' as 'the Poisons List contained in Schedule B of the Act'. This is a sale restriction under the pharmacy law. It is not shown to be drug control under the Dangerous Drugs Act: Diazepam is not named in either proclamation list read, and because the Dangerous Drugs Act control is delegated and later proclamations were not all read, that is not a finding that it is outside that Act. A reported Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2025 was not read, and a Bill is not law.

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