Thirty three benzodiazepines are printed by name in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule IV paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. The names run down two columns of the Schedule IV paragraph 1 list, interleaved with six entries that are not benzodiazepines at all: Fencamfamin, Fenproporex, Mefenorex, N-Ethylamphetamine, Propylthexedrine and Pyrovalorone. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS EXCEPTED FROM THE PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION, EXPORTATION AND, WHEN IN THE FORM OF A MEDICINAL PRODUCT, POSSESSION AND SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 22, 23, 25 AND 26». The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. For a traveller that schedule is the answer rather than a technicality. Regulation 4(2)(a) provides that section 7(1) of the Act, which prohibits possession of a controlled drug, does not have effect in relation to a drug specified in Schedule IV which is contained in a medicinal product, and regulation 4(1) lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for Schedules IV and V outright. This is a list of individual names and not a class entry. The list runs to thirty nine names in all and thirty three of them are benzodiazepines. There is no benzodiazepine family rule anywhere in the volume, so a benzodiazepine that is not on this list is not reached by it. Etizolam, which is a thienodiazepine, returns nothing in either file, and that is a separate row for that reason. The class is left open on purpose. The Act's own classification lives in its Second Schedule and the punishment table in its Third Schedule, and the volume read here is the subsidiary laws volume, whose contents page lists four instruments and none of them is the Act. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Belize, Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule IV paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020 · agm.gov.bz · the Act's offence and penalty provisions were read in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · that Act text stops partway through section 28 and carries none of its own three schedules, so no class and no ordinary possession maximum is taken from it · read as at 22 September 2026 · Verified September 21, 2026
Clonazepam is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule IV paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is printed in the left column between Clobazam and Clorazepic acid, opposite Mefenorex. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS EXCEPTED FROM THE PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION, EXPORTATION AND, WHEN IN THE FORM OF A MEDICINAL PRODUCT, POSSESSION AND SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 22, 23, 25 AND 26». The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. For a traveller that schedule is the answer rather than a technicality. Regulation 4(2)(a) provides that section 7(1) of the Act, which prohibits possession of a controlled drug, does not have effect in relation to a drug specified in Schedule IV which is contained in a medicinal product, and regulation 4(1) lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for Schedules IV and V outright. Three neighbours matter for a traveller carrying more than one benzodiazepine: Clobazam above it, Clorazepic acid below it and Clotiazepam after that are all separate entries in the same schedule, so a pack containing any of them takes the same treatment as this one. The exemption is not a class rule and reaches only the names actually on the list. The class is left open on purpose. The Act's own classification lives in its Second Schedule and the punishment table in its Third Schedule, and the volume read here is the subsidiary laws volume, whose contents page lists four instruments and none of them is the Act. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Belize, Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule IV paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020 · agm.gov.bz · the Act's offence and penalty provisions were read in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · that Act text stops partway through section 28 and carries none of its own three schedules, so no class and no ordinary possession maximum is taken from it · read as at 22 September 2026 · Verified September 21, 2026
Diazepam is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule IV paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is printed in the left column between Delorazepam and Estazolam, opposite Oxazepam. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS EXCEPTED FROM THE PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION, EXPORTATION AND, WHEN IN THE FORM OF A MEDICINAL PRODUCT, POSSESSION AND SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 22, 23, 25 AND 26». The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. For a traveller that schedule is the answer rather than a technicality. Regulation 4(2)(a) provides that section 7(1) of the Act, which prohibits possession of a controlled drug, does not have effect in relation to a drug specified in Schedule IV which is contained in a medicinal product, and regulation 4(1) lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for Schedules IV and V outright. Diazepam sits in the middle of the list rather than at either end, and the entry was read in place in the two column setting rather than matched on a substring. It is the most widely dispensed name on the list, and the practical question for a traveller is whether what is carried is still in the form of a medicinal product. What the volume cannot answer is how heavily this is punished. Section 27 takes the ordinary punishments from the Act's Third Schedule column by column according to class, and neither the Third Schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was in the material read. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Belize, Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule IV paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020 · agm.gov.bz · the Act's offence and penalty provisions were read in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · that Act text stops partway through section 28 and carries none of its own three schedules, so no class and no ordinary possession maximum is taken from it · read as at 22 September 2026 · Verified September 21, 2026
Lorazepam is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule IV paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is printed in the right column between Loprazolam and Lormetazepam, opposite Camazepam. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS EXCEPTED FROM THE PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION, EXPORTATION AND, WHEN IN THE FORM OF A MEDICINAL PRODUCT, POSSESSION AND SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 22, 23, 25 AND 26». The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. For a traveller that schedule is the answer rather than a technicality. Regulation 4(2)(a) provides that section 7(1) of the Act, which prohibits possession of a controlled drug, does not have effect in relation to a drug specified in Schedule IV which is contained in a medicinal product, and regulation 4(1) lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for Schedules IV and V outright. Loprazolam and Lormetazepam bracket it and both are separate entries. The whole Schedule IV list runs to thirty nine names, of which thirty three are benzodiazepines and six are not: Fencamfamin, Fenproporex, Mefenorex, N-Ethylamphetamine, Propylthexedrine and Pyrovalorone. So the schedule is not a benzodiazepine schedule despite reading like one. What the volume cannot answer is how heavily this is punished. Section 27 takes the ordinary punishments from the Act's Third Schedule column by column according to class, and neither the Third Schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was in the material read. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Belize, Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule IV paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020 · agm.gov.bz · the Act's offence and penalty provisions were read in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · that Act text stops partway through section 28 and carries none of its own three schedules, so no class and no ordinary possession maximum is taken from it · read as at 22 September 2026 · Verified September 21, 2026
Alprazolam is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule IV paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is the first name in the left column of the paragraph 1 list, above Bromazepam and opposite Ketazolam. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS EXCEPTED FROM THE PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION, EXPORTATION AND, WHEN IN THE FORM OF A MEDICINAL PRODUCT, POSSESSION AND SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 22, 23, 25 AND 26». The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. For a traveller that schedule is the answer rather than a technicality. Regulation 4(2)(a) provides that section 7(1) of the Act, which prohibits possession of a controlled drug, does not have effect in relation to a drug specified in Schedule IV which is contained in a medicinal product, and regulation 4(1) lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for Schedules IV and V outright. Alprazolam heads a list of thirty nine names that is set alphabetically down two columns, so the entry was read in place at the top of the left column rather than matched on a substring. The exemption above is written about the medicinal product form and about nothing else, so it does not reach loose tablets carried out of their dispensed pack. What the volume cannot answer is how heavily this is punished. Section 27 takes the ordinary punishments from the Act's Third Schedule column by column according to class, and neither the Third Schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was in the material read. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Belize, Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule IV paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020 · agm.gov.bz · the Act's offence and penalty provisions were read in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · that Act text stops partway through section 28 and carries none of its own three schedules, so no class and no ordinary possession maximum is taken from it · read as at 22 September 2026 · Verified September 21, 2026
