Khat in Solomon Islands: not individually verified

Also known as: qat, miraa, quaadka

We have not confirmed that Khat 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 khat (the plant Catha edulis) and its constituents 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); the Poisons Rules made under section 61 of that Act, as printed in the 1996 Revised Edition (printed pages 3000 to 3043, margin notes amended to LN 63 of 1988), read from the page images, including the First Schedule and the Fourth Schedule of substances sold by retail only on a prescription; and the Dangerous Drugs (Methylamphetamine) Rules 2025 (Gazette No. 158, 5 November 2025). Terms searched: khat, qat, miraa, Catha edulis, cathinone, cathine, norpseudoephedrine, leaf, extract. Result: no entry for the khat plant, for its fresh leaf or an extract of it, or for cathinone or cathine, in the proclamation schedules, the Act, the Poisons List or the Fourth Schedule. The plant and the preparation were searched apart from the constituents. The Poisons List in Schedule B Part I names 'Ephedra; alkaloids of', but neither cathinone nor cathine is named there and whether that entry reaches them is not stated by any instrument read. Khat is a plant and not one compound, so the answer is stated for the plant and for each constituent separately and no single entry stands for all. Part I applies only to raw opium, coca leaf and Indian hemp (section 4(1)), so the plant provisions do not reach it on their words; the compounds are not treated as reached by the generic limbs in paragraphs 2 to 5 or as excluded from them, because no instrument read states their relation to a printed substance, and this reading is outside the instruments and no verdict rests on it. The cathinone answer reaches the same result. The control model for dangerous drugs 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 khat (the plant Catha edulis) and its constituents is uncontrolled, legal or unregulated, and no verdict is given. Not established: whether any instrument not read names it.

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