Nitrous Oxide in Timor-Leste: not individually verified

Also known as: laughing gas, whippets, nangs

We have not confirmed that Nitrous Oxide specifically is scheduled in Timor-Leste, 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. A direct search of Anexo II to Lei n.º 2/2017, de 25 de Janeiro, for "óxido nitroso", "protóxido de azoto" and "nitroso" returned no match anywhere in Tables I to VI, so on the schedule as printed nitrous oxide is not a "droga" under article 2(d) and not a "precursor" under article 2(e). This table-absence is not treated here as a settled negative answer, because Lei n.º 2/2017 does not close itself: article 3(3) allows the tables to be altered by law or updated in line with changes to the international Conventions, and whether that updating clause self-executes without a further legislative act is not resolved on the text read. No amending law has been located this session, and no systematic search of the Jornal da República since 2017 was completed. An absence claim like this one is only true as at the version of the schedule actually read; nitrous oxide became a controlled Class C drug in the United Kingdom only by a 2023 statutory instrument made under its own 1971 Act, well after both this 2017 Timor-Leste law and after the checked 2025 pharmacy decree, which is why the version date is stated here rather than leaving the absence unbounded.

Confirm directly with Timor-Leste’s national drug authority or your own embassy before you rely on anything.

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