Legal status in Tuvalu

Per-substance legal status for Tuvalu, from sourced statutes where available. Legal information, not legal advice; drug laws change, so confirm with the destination’s embassy or drug authority before you travel.

23 confirmed substances65 not individually verifiedLast updated October 7, 2026

Confirmed legal status

2C-B

Legal status: Controlled under Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions, trafficking carries imprisonment plus a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: 2C-B is controlled in Tuvalu under Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions. In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same provisions, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Tuvalu Penal Code / drug-control provisions · paclii.org · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated June 28, 2026

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Alcohol

Legal status: Lawful and regulated in Tuvalu, with sale restricted to licence holders, and not a dangerous drug under the Dangerous Drugs Act. Section 2 of the Alcoholic Drink Act (Cap. 28.04, 2022 Revised Edition) defines “alcoholic drink” as “spirits, wine, beer or sour toddy”, or “any other liquid containing alcohol that is used, intended for use or fit for use as a drink”, in each case “of a strength exceeding 2° proof” (pages 9 to 11). The strength is stated in degrees of proof as printed and is not converted. The state under that Act is named, because alcoholic drink is regulated by name. Under the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition) the state is not reached: a search of the text of that Act and of the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025 for alcohol, ethanol, liquor and spirit returned nothing, Part I of Schedule 2 to the Act does not list it, and Part II of the Act applies only to raw opium, coca leaf and Indian hemp. That absence is stated as at the 2022 Revised Edition as amended by the 2025 Act. Selling or exposing for sale without the appropriate licence is an offence under section 92(1) of the Alcoholic Drink Act (page 44). Absolute alcohol and ethyl alcohol as defined in the British Pharmacopoeia are restricted imports under item 1, and brandy, whisky and rum under item 3, of the restricted list in Schedule 2 to the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act 2014 (page 146).
Consequences if caught: Sale and supply. Section 92(1) says a person who “sells or exposes for sale any alcoholic drink without holding the appropriate licence is guilty of an offence”, liable for a first offence to “a fine of $500” and for a second or subsequent offence to “a fine of $1,000 and to imprisonment for twelve months”. Under section 92(2) the court “shall disqualify him from holding a licence, and from managing any licensed premises, for a period not exceeding two years” on each conviction after the first. Section 29(1) says a publican’s licence authorizes sale and supply “to any person of or over the age of 18 years”, and section 20 limits an off-licence to unopened containers between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. on any day other than a Sunday or a public holiday (pages 18 and 21 to 22). Sale or supply outside the authorised hours carries a fine of $200 and imprisonment for six months (section 93(1), page 44). Under 18. Section 99 (pages 46 to 47) makes it an offence for a licence holder knowingly to sell or supply, or to permit the sale or supply of, alcoholic drink to a person under the age of 18 years (fine of $200), for an agent or servant to do so (fine of $200), and for any other person knowingly to do so (fine of $100). A person under 18 who obtains or attempts to obtain drink on or from licensed premises, who “has in his possession, or drinks, any alcoholic drink”, or who is drunk, is liable to a fine of $100, and a licence holder who employs a person under 18 to sell or serve drink is liable to a fine of $100. Section 30 (printed pages 21 to 22) makes it an offence, with a fine of $200 and imprisonment for six months, for the holder of a publican’s licence to allow a person under 18 to be in, or within the curtilage of, the licensed premises during the hours referred to in section 29(a), and for any person to cause or procure, or attempt to cause or procure, that, subject to the exceptions and the due diligence defence the section prints. Possession and drinking by an adult. The sections read make possession or drinking an offence in named places and for named classes of person, and section 107 (printed page 49) makes it an offence for any person to drink or have in possession a mixture of sour toddy and a substance other than water, with a fine of $200. No other general offence of possession or drinking by an adult appears in the sections read. A person who drinks on or in the vicinity of the premises of an off-licence, other than in a private dwelling-house, is liable to a fine of $200 (section 22, page 19). Drinking on licensed premises outside the permitted hours carries a fine of $200 and imprisonment for six months (section 93(3)), and drinking within the curtilage of licensed premises after a request to leave carries a fine of $200 (section 101(2)). Drinking in a public place in an area the Minister has declared a prohibited area carries a fine of $200 (section 118(2), page 53), the endnotes at page 57 list declared areas on Funafuti, Nui and Vaitupu and the islets Papaelise and Funafala by an order commencing on publication on 17 September 2021, and section 119 extends local bye-laws to drinking in public places. A person under a prohibition order, made for “confirmed intemperate habits” or after repeated drunkenness convictions, who drinks or has drink in possession is liable to a fine of $200 and imprisonment for 12 months (sections 82 and 84, pages 40 to 41). Manufacture. Section 106(1) says a person who “makes, or assists or is concerned in the making of, any alcoholic drink other than sour toddy” is liable to “a fine of $500 and to imprisonment for nine months”, and section 90 prohibits importing or setting up a still, possessing one, and making spirits, with the same fine and term (pages 43 and 49). Section 106(2) excepts the mixing of sour toddy with water and the mixing of one alcoholic drink with another or with another drink liquid, and sour toddy is sold under a producer’s licence (Part V, sections 76 to 81). Import and export. The Alcoholic Drink Act has no provision on importing drink other than stills in section 90, and no export provision was found. Item 1 of the restricted imports names only absolute alcohol and ethyl alcohol as defined in the British Pharmacopoeia, other than quantities the Customs Officer is satisfied are for purposes approved by the Minister, and does not name drink generally. Item 3 lists “Brandy and whisky unless certified to the satisfaction of the Customs Officer that it has been matured by storage in wood for not less than 3 years” and rum matured for not less than 2 years (page 146). Duty and personal import allowances were not read. Limitation. Section 111 (printed page 50) provides that a prosecution for an offence against the Act shall not be instituted more than six months after the date of the offence. Cultivation, and the maximum. The text has no cultivation offence. The highest imprisonment term printed anywhere in the Act is twelve months, at sections 84 and 92(1)(b), and a search of the text for death and life returned only the end of a committee member’s tenure at section 5. Tuvalu’s general law on capital punishment was not checked.
If prescribed / medical: The only prescription provision in the Alcoholic Drink Act is section 3(1)(f) and (g) (page 11). Section 3(1)(f) says “subject to any other law, alcoholic drink, or a medicine containing alcohol, may be sold or supplied to any person (including a prohibited person) in accordance with a written prescription by a medical practitioner or medical officer”, and section 3(1)(g) lets that person drink it “in accordance with the prescription”. The entry covers licensing and sale only, as a scope boundary. Whether a particular medicine containing alcohol is a prescription medicine is a question for the Tuvalu Medicines Schedule, which section 9 of the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act requires. That Schedule was searched for on three routes and not found, so no classification of alcohol under it is established.
Documentation: Read in full: the Alcoholic Drink Act, Cap. 28.04, 2022 Revised Edition (57 pages, printed commencement 1 January 1985). The printed pages of the Alcoholic Drink Act carry only the words “2022 Revised Edition” and no consolidation date. The legislation site’s home page, https://www.tuvalu-legislation.tv/cms/, read on 7 October 2026, states that the Laws of Tuvalu are in force as at 31st December 2022. Endnote 1 on page 57 records amendment by GS 1/2005, by Act 9 of 2017 (commencement 24 November 2017) and by Act 9 of 2021 (commencement 3 June 2022 by LN 26/2022). Also read: items 1 and 3 of the restricted imports in Schedule 2 of the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act 2014, Cap. 26.04, 2022 Revised Edition (the PDF prints “Customers”), at page 146. The Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition, and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025, Act 9 of 2025, were searched for alcohol, ethanol, liquor and spirit and returned nothing. The 2025 Act says in section 1(2) “This Act shall come into force on the date of publication”, so it commenced on the date of its publication; the text gives no date and none is stated. The tuvalu-legislation.tv all-legislation index page, read on 7 October 2026 (sha256 f1a30168fc3e2cb5944e6849a1de4afc5ceffddaa6b71bed2cf522c86d0c3070), lists no amending Act and no regulations beneath the Alcoholic Drink Act, so whether regulations under section 127 exist, or any amendment after the 2022 Revised Edition, is not established. The Tuvalu Medicines Schedule was searched for on 7 October 2026 on three routes: the tuvalu-legislation.tv legislation, subsidiary legislation, notices and gazette pages; the government and Ministry of Health websites, where the hostnames tried returned no connection; and WHO and Pacific health sources. It was not found. Amounts are printed with a dollar sign and no currency name. No Tuvalu court decision or licensing decision was read.

Alcoholic Drink Act, Cap. 28.04, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 2, 3, 20, 22, 29, 30, 76 to 84, 90, 92, 93, 99, 101, 106, 107, 111, 118 and 119 and endnotes, pages 9 to 57, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 bad0f995a34e00a3ecdcffd5b343b164aa620995610bee9a307cc765655d74fb · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act 2014, Cap. 26.04, 2022 Revised Edition, Schedule 2 list of restricted imports items 1 and 3, page 146, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 b1747fd3511bcd3111d35f699933d9de68137065643d8bcf6f09d79b4778fbc0 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 2, 4 and 13 and Schedule 2, searched in full, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 c9e514235adcb847c794d886eb122ee2962045e6ea0e7c9ccaba18526a1cd53e · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025, Act 9 of 2025, searched in full, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 36ac0ea5a9d1955f1967d00431c2a9e3cd94947e715f3881270ec4f2756863e6 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32, 2022 Revised Edition, section 9 page 13, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 625b92971e321cb4409bfbe2ce561a8674fa3a7e489afc00254a22e139dd3021 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · tuvalu-legislation.tv all-legislation index page, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 f1a30168fc3e2cb5944e6849a1de4afc5ceffddaa6b71bed2cf522c86d0c3070 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Tuvalu Legislation On-line home page, read on 7 October 2026 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Updated October 7, 2026

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Benzodiazepines

Legal status: Controlled under Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions, trafficking carries imprisonment plus a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Benzodiazepines is controlled in Tuvalu under Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions. In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same provisions, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Tuvalu Penal Code / drug-control provisions · paclii.org · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated June 28, 2026

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Controlled and prohibited in Tuvalu, in two forms under the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition). The plant is named in Part II by definition: section 2 says “Indian hemp” means “either of the plants Cannabis sativa or Cannabis indica or any portion thereof”, and section 4(1) applies Part II to “raw opium, coca leaf and Indian hemp and resins obtained from Indian hemp and preparations of which such resins form the base” (pages 9 and 10). Extracts and tinctures are named separately in Part IV: paragraph 7 of Part I of Schedule 2 lists “Any extract or tincture of cannabis” (page 34), and section 13(1) says Part IV applies to “the substances for the time being specified in Part I of Schedule 2”. Paragraph 8 of Part I adds “Any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 above or in any of the paragraphs 2 to 7 above”, so it reaches a preparation containing an extract or tincture of cannabis (page 34). Both forms are therefore named. The Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act 2014 adds a restricted import entry, Schedule 2 item 4, for “Cannabis sativa (known as Indian hemp or bhang), cannabis indica, choras, or any preparation or mixture thereof, except under licence of the Senior Medical Officer” (page 146). Stated as at the 2022 Revised Edition of the Dangerous Drugs Act as amended by the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025.
Consequences if caught: Plant, resin and resin preparations (Part II). Cultivation: section 7 says “No person shall cultivate in Tuvalu the opium poppy or Indian hemp or coca leaf plant”, and section 8(a) makes it an offence to knowingly cultivate Indian hemp “whether for private use or otherwise”. Possession and selling: section 8(b), as amended by section 4 of the 2025 Act, reads “found in possession of or selling, or otherwise traffics or engages in the trafficking of, to any person any substance to which this Part applies”. Import and export: section 4(2) says “No person shall import or export any of the substances to which this Part applies”, section 3 confines dangerous drugs to ports approved by the Minister, and section 6 forfeits anything unlawfully imported or exported. Schedule 3 prints a row headed “Smoking or Possession of Indian hemp”. No section of the Dangerous Drugs Act or the 2025 Act is worded as an offence of smoking Indian hemp: section 8 concerns cultivation, possession and selling, section 12(1)(f) concerns smoking prepared opium, and new section 5(1) bars “use” of a dangerous drug without a licence. The text does not say which offence that row sentences. Bands. Schedule 3 prints these rows for Indian hemp, each with a maximum and a minimum, and no fine column. Growing and cultivation: “Not exceeding 1 plants”, maximum 5 years, minimum 12 months; “Not exceeding 3 plants”, maximum 7 years, minimum 24 months; “Exceeding 5 plants”, maximum 10 years, minimum 4 years. Smoking or possession: “Not exceeding 5 grams”, maximum 5 years, minimum 24 months; “Not exceeding 10 grams”, maximum 7 years, minimum 3 years; “Exceeding 50 grams”, maximum 20 years, minimum 5 years. Selling or trafficking: “Not exceeding 5 grams”, maximum 5 years, minimum 24 months; “Not exceeding 10 grams”, maximum 7 years, minimum 3 years; “Not exceeding 20 grams”, maximum 12 years, minimum 5 years; “Exceeding 50 grams”, maximum 20 years, minimum 5 years. As printed, there is no band for 4 or 5 plants, none for possession above 10 grams and up to 50 grams, and none for selling or trafficking above 20 grams and up to 50 grams. The “not exceeding” bands also overlap as printed: a quantity of 3 grams falls within both “Not exceeding 5 grams” and “Not exceeding 10 grams”, which carry different penalties, the plant rows overlap in the same way, and the text does not say which row applies. No quantity that presumes supply is printed, and the text has no separate offence of possession for supply. Import, export and manufacture have no Schedule 3 row for Indian hemp. New section 5(1) says “No person shall import, export, manufacture, cultivate, sell, or use any dangerous drug except with a license issued under section 14A”, and new section 5(2) says a person in violation “is guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be sentenced pursuant to Schedule 3”. Section 8(2), inserted by section 4 of Act 9 of 2025 (printed page 6), reads “Any person who commits an offence under this Act shall be sentenced according to Schedule 3.” Section 5(2) is worded for the conduct named in new section 5(1), which is import, export, manufacture, cultivation, sale and use, and does not name possession. The section 20 possession offence therefore reaches Schedule 3, if at all, only through section 8(2), and Schedule 3 has no row for a Part IV drug. Section 39(2) separately provides, in respect of each offence “for which no penalty is otherwise prescribed”, on conviction by the High Court sitting with assessors a fine of $4,000 and imprisonment for 10 years, or on summary conviction a fine not exceeding $1,000 and imprisonment for 5 years, with forfeiture of the articles. The text does not say which route governs hemp import, export or manufacture, or the quantities that fall in the printed gaps, so no band is given for them. Section 35(1) deems articles whose importation the Act prohibits to be prohibited goods under the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act. Section 35(2) (printed page 19) provides: “If any goods the exportation of which is prohibited or restricted by this Act are exported in contravention thereof, or brought to a wharf or other place to be shipped in any conveyance, the exporter or his agent shall be liable for each offence to forfeit either treble the value of the goods or $200, at the option of the Customs Officer.” The text does not say how that liability relates to section 39(2) or to Schedule 3. For goods prohibited under section 78 of that Act, section 212(1)(a) makes importing them an offence, with a fine not exceeding $2,000 under section 212(3) (pages 108 and 109). Section 215 makes knowing possession or custody of prohibited imports an offence, with, for an individual, a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or both, and, for a body corporate, a fine not exceeding $10,000, or a fine of 3 times the value of the goods, whichever is the lesser (page 110). Section 216 makes knowing purchase, sale, exchange or other acquisition or disposal an offence, with, for an individual, a fine not exceeding $5,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or both, and, for a body corporate, a fine not exceeding $50,000, or 3 times the value of the goods, whichever is the lesser (page 110). Item 14 of the list of prohibited imports (printed page 146) reads “Goods the importation of which is prohibited by any other law in force in Tuvalu.” and item 9 of the list of restricted imports (printed page 147) reads “Goods the importation of which is regulated by any other law in force in Tuvalu except in accordance with such law.” The text read does not say whether these Customs Act penalties apply to cannabis alongside section 39(2). Extracts and tinctures (Part IV). Section 14 bans import and export “except in accordance with sections 21 to 29”, which require authorisations from the Senior Medical Officer. Section 20 makes it an offence to have such a drug in possession, or to keep it anywhere other than the appointed store, “unless he can prove that such drug was obtained under the authority of this Act, or in accordance with the prescription of a person whose name appears in the said Medical and Dental Register, or from a person having authority to sell it, or was deposited there without his knowledge or consent”. Schedule 3 has no row for Part IV drugs, so the same gap applies to them. None of paragraphs 9 to 14 of Part II of Schedule 2 names cannabis. Section 30 (printed page 16) provides: “The provisions of sections 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 shall not apply to any preparation or other substance for the time being falling within Part II of Schedule 2.” Those sections include the section 14 import and export ban, the store rules and the section 20 possession offence, so a preparation that falls within Part II of Schedule 2 is outside them. Section 15 and new section 5(1) carry no matching exception. Other provisions. A police officer may without warrant apprehend and detain a person carrying or conveying Indian hemp (section 9(2)). Hemp found on a plantation may be seized and destroyed (section 10). Attempt, soliciting and inciting carry the same punishment (section 39(4)). The old section 5, which banned import and export of hemp seed, was repealed by the 2025 Act and the replacement does not mention seeds. The text does not say whether a seed is a “portion” of the plant under the section 2 definition. The text read prints no exemption for personal or recreational use. The highest maximum printed for Indian hemp is 20 years in Schedule 3. The text of the Dangerous Drugs Act and of the 2025 Act contains no death penalty. Tuvalu’s general law on capital punishment was not checked.
If prescribed / medical: The text read states no prescription route for the plant or its resin. For extracts and tinctures, section 15(1)(c) lets the Minister make rules “regulating the issue by medical practitioners of prescriptions containing any such dangerous drug and the dispensing of any such prescription”, and the possession offence in section 20 does not apply to a person who proves the drug was obtained “in accordance with the prescription of a person whose name appears in the said Medical and Dental Register”. New section 14A, inserted by section 6 of the 2025 Act, says “The Minister may issue licenses for the importation, exportation, manufacture, cultivation, sale, or use of dangerous drugs for medical and scientific purposes”, on conditions the Minister prescribes. The Customs entry for cannabis refers instead to a licence “of the Senior Medical Officer”, and the text does not reconcile the two authorities. The Tuvalu Medicines Schedule that section 9 of the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act requires was searched for on three routes and not found, so the classification of cannabis under it is not established.
Documentation: Read in full: the Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition (36 pages, printed commencement 20th October 1948), and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025, Act 9 of 2025 (9 pages), which says in section 1(2) “This Act shall come into force on the date of publication”. It commenced on the date of its publication under its section 1(2); the text gives no date and none is stated. The 2025 Act is not consolidated into the 2022 Revised Edition. The printed pages of the Dangerous Drugs Act carry only the words “2022 Revised Edition” and no consolidation date. The legislation site’s home page, https://www.tuvalu-legislation.tv/cms/, read on 7 October 2026, states that the Laws of Tuvalu are in force as at 31st December 2022. This entry rests on the Dangerous Drugs Act and its 2025 amendment. Tuvalu’s Penal Code was not read. Also read: sections 78, 212, 215 and 216 and Schedule 2 (item 14 of the list of prohibited imports and items 4 and 9 of the list of restricted imports) of the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act 2014, Cap. 26.04, 2022 Revised Edition (the PDF prints “Customers”), and sections 9 and 42 of the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32, 2022 Revised Edition. Searched in the text of the Dangerous Drugs Act and the 2025 Act: the word rules occurs in sections 15, 16(2), 38(2) and 39 as a power or a reference, and in Form B of Schedule 1 (printed page 24) in a condition about rules or regulations on the transmission of articles by post, and no rules made under the Act are printed. The tuvalu-legislation.tv all-legislation index page, read on 7 October 2026 (sha256 f1a30168fc3e2cb5944e6849a1de4afc5ceffddaa6b71bed2cf522c86d0c3070), lists beneath the Dangerous Drugs Act only the 2025 amendment and lists no rules, so whether any rules were made is not established. A search for presum, travell, passenger, personal use, baggage, luggage, death and capital returned nothing in the text of either Act. The Tuvalu Medicines Schedule was searched for on 7 October 2026 on three routes: the tuvalu-legislation.tv legislation, subsidiary legislation, notices and gazette pages; the government and Ministry of Health websites, where the hostnames tried returned no connection; and WHO and Pacific health sources. It was not found. No Tuvalu court decision, penalty practice or licence issued under section 14A was read.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21 to 29, 30, 35 and 39 and Schedule 2 Parts I and II, pages 7 to 22 and 32 to 35, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 c9e514235adcb847c794d886eb122ee2962045e6ea0e7c9ccaba18526a1cd53e · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025, Act 9 of 2025, sections 1 to 6 and Schedule 3, pages 5 to 9, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 36ac0ea5a9d1955f1967d00431c2a9e3cd94947e715f3881270ec4f2756863e6 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act 2014, Cap. 26.04, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 78, 212, 215 and 216 and Schedule 2 list of prohibited imports item 14 and list of restricted imports items 4 and 9, pages 47, 108 to 110 and 146 to 147, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 b1747fd3511bcd3111d35f699933d9de68137065643d8bcf6f09d79b4778fbc0 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32, 2022 Revised Edition, section 9 page 13, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 625b92971e321cb4409bfbe2ce561a8674fa3a7e489afc00254a22e139dd3021 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · tuvalu-legislation.tv all-legislation index page, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 f1a30168fc3e2cb5944e6849a1de4afc5ceffddaa6b71bed2cf522c86d0c3070 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Tuvalu Legislation On-line home page, read on 7 October 2026 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Updated October 7, 2026

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Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled in Tuvalu as a named dangerous drug under Part IV of the Dangerous Drugs Act. Cocaine is entered by name at paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition (page 32), and section 13(1) provides: “The provisions of this Part shall apply to the substances for the time being specified in Part I of Schedule 2.” Section 2 (page 7) defines “cocaine” as “methyl-benzoyl laevo-ecgonine” in a stated solution test “of which the formula is C17H21O4N”, and “Ecgonine.” is itself entered in paragraph 1. Three further paragraphs widen the entry: paragraph 3, “Any salt of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 or 2 above”; paragraph 4, “Any derivative of ecgonine which is convertible to ecgonine or to cocaine”; and paragraph 8, “Any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 above”. Preparations of not more than 0.1 per cent cocaine are the subject of Part II paragraph 10, set out below. The Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025 (Act 9 of 2025) does not amend Schedule 2. The model is a schedule printed in the Act, with a power in section 13(2) for the Minister to modify Schedule 2 by order. No order is printed in the 2022 Revised Edition and none appears beneath the Act on the legislation site's index, as read on 7 October 2026. The coca plant and coca leaf are a separate control under Part II of the Act and are outside this entry.
Consequences if caught: Possession: section 20 (page 14) makes it an offence for a Part IV drug to be “found in the possession of any person or kept in any place other than the appointed store” unless the person “can prove” that it was obtained under the authority of the Act, “in accordance with the prescription of a person whose name appears in the said Medical and Dental Register”, or “from a person having authority to sell it”, or was deposited there without knowledge or consent. The burden of proof is on the person found with the drug. The text prints no quantity threshold, no presumption of supply and no separate offence of possession for supply. Sale, use, manufacture: section 5(1) as replaced by Act 9 of 2025 (page 5) reads “No person shall import, export, manufacture, cultivate, sell, or use any dangerous drug except with a license issued under section 14A.” It does not name possession. Trafficking: the word appears only in section 8(b) and section 12(1)(a) as amended by Act 9 of 2025, which concern Part II substances and prepared opium, and in the headings of Schedule 3 to that Act, and no trafficking offence is printed for a Part IV drug. Import and export: section 14 (page 12) provides “No person shall import or export any substance to which this Part applies, except in accordance with sections 21 to 29”; section 22 requires a valid export authorisation and section 27 a valid import authorisation. Section 35(1) deems articles whose importation is prohibited by the Act to be prohibited goods under the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act. That Act provides three routes for goods prohibited under its section 78. Section 212(1)(a) (printed page 108) makes it an offence to import such goods, with a fine not exceeding $2,000 under section 212(3) (printed page 109). Section 215 (printed page 110), on knowing possession or custody of prohibited imports, carries for an individual a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or both, and for a body corporate a fine not exceeding $10,000, or a fine of 3 times the value of the goods, whichever is the lesser. Section 216 (printed page 110), on knowing purchase, sale, exchange or other acquisition or disposal, carries for an individual a fine not exceeding $5,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or both, and for a body corporate a fine not exceeding $50,000, or 3 times the value of the goods, whichever is the lesser. Item 14 of the list of prohibited imports (printed page 146) reads “Goods the importation of which is prohibited by any other law in force in Tuvalu.” and item 9 of the list of restricted imports (printed page 147) reads “Goods the importation of which is regulated by any other law in force in Tuvalu except in accordance with such law.” The text read does not say whether these Customs Act penalties apply to cocaine alongside section 39(2). The text does not say which route a given importation is charged under. Section 35(2) (printed page 19) provides: “If any goods the exportation of which is prohibited or restricted by this Act are exported in contravention thereof, or brought to a wharf or other place to be shipped in any conveyance, the exporter or his agent shall be liable for each offence to forfeit either treble the value of the goods or $200, at the option of the Customs Officer.” The text does not say how that liability relates to section 39(2) or to Schedule 3. Penalty: section 39(2) (page 21) provides for each offence “for which no penalty is otherwise prescribed”, on conviction by the High Court sitting with assessors, “a fine of $4,000 and to imprisonment for 10 years”, or on summary conviction “a fine not exceeding $1,000 and to imprisonment for 5 years”, and forfeiture of the articles in every case. The fine and the term are joined by “and”. Section 39(3) requires the Attorney-General to institute or consent to proceedings under section 39(1)(a), and section 39(4) gives attempts and solicitation the same punishment. Which penalty provision governs is a gap in the text. Section 5(2) says a person in violation of section 5 “shall be sentenced pursuant to Schedule 3”. Section 8(2), inserted by section 4 of Act 9 of 2025 (printed page 6), reads “Any person who commits an offence under this Act shall be sentenced according to Schedule 3.” Section 5(2) is worded for the conduct named in new section 5(1), which is import, export, manufacture, cultivation, sale and use, and does not name possession. The section 20 possession offence therefore reaches Schedule 3, if at all, only through section 8(2), and Schedule 3 has no row for a Part IV drug. Schedule 3 as printed in Act 9 of 2025 has bands only for Indian hemp, opium poppy or coca plant and leaf, and prepared opium, and no row for any substance in Part I of Schedule 2. The text does not say whether a Part IV offence is sentenced under section 39(2) or has no Schedule 3 band. A second gap is scope: section 5 replaced a section that stood in Part II, which section 4(1) confines to raw opium, coca leaf and Indian hemp, while new section 5(1) speaks of “any dangerous drug”, defined in section 2 as “any of the substances which may be from time to time subject to the provisions of this Act”. The amending Act does not say whether Part IV substances were meant. Excepted preparations: Part II paragraph 10 covers “A preparation of cocaine containing not more than 0.1 per cent of cocaine calculated as cocaine base”, compounded so that it “has no, or a negligible, risk of abuse” and the cocaine “cannot be recovered by readily applicable means or in a yield which would constitute a risk to health”. The Part II heading, printed in capitals, describes these as preparations “whose importation and exportation is excepted from control”. Section 30 (printed page 16) provides: “The provisions of sections 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 shall not apply to any preparation or other substance for the time being falling within Part II of Schedule 2.” Those sections include the section 14 import and export ban, the store rules and the section 20 possession offence, so a preparation that falls within Part II of Schedule 2 is outside them. Section 15 and new section 5(1) carry no matching exception. Cultivation: cocaine is a substance, not a plant, and no cultivation row exists for it. The coca plant is under sections 7 and 8 with its own Schedule 3 bands, which are not a cocaine penalty. Administrative: section 16(2) requires any person in possession of a Part IV drug to keep a stock book, and section 39(3) (page 21) provides that “no person, on conviction for any offence of contravening or failing to comply with any rules made under this Act, relating to the keeping of books, or the issuing or dispensing of prescriptions containing drugs to which this Act applies, shall be sentenced to imprisonment without the option of a fine, or to pay a fine exceeding $100”, if the court is satisfied that the offence was committed through inadvertence and was not preparatory to, or committed in connection with, any other offence against this Act. Capital exposure: nothing in the Act or Act 9 of 2025 provides a penalty of death. The largest figures printed are in section 39(2) for this substance. Tuvalu's general law on capital punishment was not checked.
If prescribed / medical: Cocaine is a Part IV drug, and Part IV contemplates a medical route without printing it. Section 15(1)(c) lets the Minister make rules “regulating the issue by medical practitioners of prescriptions containing any such dangerous drug and the dispensing of any such prescription”, and section 15(2) requires those rules to authorise a pharmaceutical chemist and druggist to retail, dispense or compound. Section 19 allows withdrawal from the appointed store only to a person on the Medical and Dental Register, a registered pharmacist or a qualified veterinary surgeon. Section 14A, inserted by Act 9 of 2025, lets the Minister license importation, exportation, manufacture, cultivation, sale or use of dangerous drugs “for medical and scientific purposes”, on application in Form G. No rules under section 15 appear in the Act's text or beneath it on the legislation site's index as read on 7 October 2026. The Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32 (2022 Revised Edition), defines “dangerous drug” by reference to section 2 of the Dangerous Drugs Act (section 4, page 7), lists “dangerous drugs” as a class of the Tuvalu Medicines Schedule (section 9(2)(g), page 13), and provides in section 42 (page 28) that its prohibitions and conditions are in addition to those under the Dangerous Drugs Act. The Tuvalu Medicines Schedule itself was not located, so whether cocaine is classed there as a prescription medicine, a dangerous drug or something else is not established by any text read. The text also does not say whether a prescription satisfies the section 5(1) bar on “use” without a section 14A license.
Documentation: Searched: the Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition, 36 pages, and Act 9 of 2025, 9 pages, both read in full, for “cocaine”, “coca”, “ecgonine” and “crude cocaine”. The printed pages of the Dangerous Drugs Act carry only the words “2022 Revised Edition” and no consolidation date. The legislation site's home page, https://www.tuvalu-legislation.tv/cms/, read on 7 October 2026, states that the Laws of Tuvalu are in force as at 31st December 2022. Section 2 defines “crude cocaine” as “any extract of the coca leaf which can be used directly or indirectly for the manufacture of cocaine”, and the term appears in no other provision of the 2022 text. The Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act (sections 4, 9 and 42) and the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act (Schedule 2, sections 78, 212, 215 and 216) were read for the provisions cited. Schedule 2 of the Customs Act, as printed, names prepared opium in its prohibited list and has no entry naming cocaine, and its prohibited item 14 (printed page 146) covers “Goods the importation of which is prohibited by any other law in force in Tuvalu.” and its restricted item 9 (printed page 147) covers “Goods the importation of which is regulated by any other law in force in Tuvalu except in accordance with such law.” Tuvalu Medicines Schedule: searched on three routes, the legislation site's subsidiary legislation, notices and gazette indexes, Ministry of Health and government hostnames with web searches, and WHO and Pacific health sources, and no copy was located. Commencement of Act 9 of 2025: it commenced on the date of its publication under its section 1(2), which reads “This Act shall come into force on the date of publication”. The publication date is not printed in the Act and no commencement date is stated here. The Act contains no provision for a personal or traveller allowance for a Part IV drug, and a prescription is a matter of proof under section 20. Import authorisations are issued by the Senior Medical Officer under section 25. This entry rests on the Dangerous Drugs Act and its 2025 amendment. Tuvalu's Penal Code was not read.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 to 16, 19, 20, 22, 25, 27, 30, 35, 39 and Schedule 2 Parts I and II (pages 32 to 35), read on 7 October 2026, sha256 c9e514235adcb847c794d886eb122ee2962045e6ea0e7c9ccaba18526a1cd53e · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025, Act 9 of 2025, sections 1 to 6 and Schedule 3 (pages 5 to 9), read on 7 October 2026, sha256 36ac0ea5a9d1955f1967d00431c2a9e3cd94947e715f3881270ec4f2756863e6 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 4, 9 and 42, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 625b92971e321cb4409bfbe2ce561a8674fa3a7e489afc00254a22e139dd3021 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act 2014, Cap. 26.04, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 78, 212, 215, 216 and Schedule 2, printed pages 47, 108 to 110 and 145 to 147, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 b1747fd3511bcd3111d35f699933d9de68137065643d8bcf6f09d79b4778fbc0 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Tuvalu Legislation On-line home page, read on 7 October 2026 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Updated October 7, 2026

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Codeine

Legal status: Controlled in Tuvalu as a named dangerous drug under Part IV of the Dangerous Drugs Act. Codeine is entered by name at paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition (page 32), and section 13(1) provides: “The provisions of this Part shall apply to the substances for the time being specified in Part I of Schedule 2.” Paragraph 3 adds “Any salt of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 or 2 above”, paragraph 2 adds esters and ethers of a paragraph 1 substance, and paragraph 8 adds “Any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 above”. Codeine is also one of the substances to which Part II paragraph 9 applies, so low dose codeine preparations meeting that paragraph are excepted from the provisions listed in section 30, set out below. They are not described anywhere in the text as uncontrolled. The Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025 (Act 9 of 2025) does not amend Schedule 2. The model is a schedule printed in the Act, with a power in section 13(2) for the Minister to modify Schedule 2 by order. No order is printed in the 2022 Revised Edition and none appears beneath the Act on the legislation site's index, as read on 7 October 2026. Raw opium, medicinal opium and prepared opium are separate entries and are outside this entry.
Consequences if caught: Possession: section 20 (page 14) makes it an offence for a Part IV drug to be “found in the possession of any person or kept in any place other than the appointed store” unless the person “can prove” that it was obtained under the authority of the Act, “in accordance with the prescription of a person whose name appears in the said Medical and Dental Register”, or “from a person having authority to sell it”, or was deposited there without knowledge or consent. The burden of proof is on the person found with the drug. The text prints no quantity threshold, no presumption of supply and no separate offence of possession for supply. Sale, use, manufacture: section 5(1) as replaced by Act 9 of 2025 (page 5) reads “No person shall import, export, manufacture, cultivate, sell, or use any dangerous drug except with a license issued under section 14A.” It does not name possession. Trafficking: the word appears only in section 8(b) and section 12(1)(a) as amended by Act 9 of 2025, which concern Part II substances and prepared opium, and in the headings of Schedule 3 to that Act, and no trafficking offence is printed for a Part IV drug. Import and export: section 14 (page 12) provides “No person shall import or export any substance to which this Part applies, except in accordance with sections 21 to 29”; section 22 requires a valid export authorisation and section 27 a valid import authorisation. Section 35(1) deems articles whose importation is prohibited by the Act to be prohibited goods under the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act. That Act provides three routes for goods prohibited under its section 78. Section 212(1)(a) (printed page 108) makes it an offence to import such goods, with a fine not exceeding $2,000 under section 212(3) (printed page 109). Section 215 (printed page 110), on knowing possession or custody of prohibited imports, carries for an individual a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or both, and for a body corporate a fine not exceeding $10,000, or a fine of 3 times the value of the goods, whichever is the lesser. Section 216 (printed page 110), on knowing purchase, sale, exchange or other acquisition or disposal, carries for an individual a fine not exceeding $5,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or both, and for a body corporate a fine not exceeding $50,000, or 3 times the value of the goods, whichever is the lesser. Item 14 of the list of prohibited imports (printed page 146) reads “Goods the importation of which is prohibited by any other law in force in Tuvalu.” and item 9 of the list of restricted imports (printed page 147) reads “Goods the importation of which is regulated by any other law in force in Tuvalu except in accordance with such law.” The text read does not say whether these Customs Act penalties apply to codeine alongside section 39(2). The text does not say which route a given importation is charged under. Section 35(2) (printed page 19) provides: “If any goods the exportation of which is prohibited or restricted by this Act are exported in contravention thereof, or brought to a wharf or other place to be shipped in any conveyance, the exporter or his agent shall be liable for each offence to forfeit either treble the value of the goods or $200, at the option of the Customs Officer.” The text does not say how that liability relates to section 39(2) or to Schedule 3. Penalty: section 39(2) (page 21) provides for each offence “for which no penalty is otherwise prescribed”, on conviction by the High Court sitting with assessors, “a fine of $4,000 and to imprisonment for 10 years”, or on summary conviction “a fine not exceeding $1,000 and to imprisonment for 5 years”, and forfeiture of the articles in every case. The fine and the term are joined by “and”. Which penalty provision governs is a gap in the text. Section 5(2) says a person in violation of section 5 “shall be sentenced pursuant to Schedule 3”. Section 8(2), inserted by section 4 of Act 9 of 2025 (printed page 6), reads “Any person who commits an offence under this Act shall be sentenced according to Schedule 3.” Section 5(2) is worded for the conduct named in new section 5(1), which is import, export, manufacture, cultivation, sale and use, and does not name possession. The section 20 possession offence therefore reaches Schedule 3, if at all, only through section 8(2), and Schedule 3 has no row for a Part IV drug. Schedule 3 as printed in Act 9 of 2025 has bands only for Indian hemp, opium poppy or coca plant and leaf, and prepared opium, and no row for codeine or any other substance in Part I of Schedule 2. The text does not say whether a Part IV offence is sentenced under section 39(2) or has no Schedule 3 band. A second gap is scope: section 5 replaced a section that stood in Part II, which section 4(1) confines to raw opium, coca leaf and Indian hemp, while new section 5(1) speaks of “any dangerous drug”. The amending Act does not say whether Part IV substances were meant. Low dose preparations: Part II paragraph 9(1) covers “A preparation of not more than 1 of the substances to which this paragraph applies” when (a) it is compounded with one or more other ingredients “in such a way that the preparation has no, or a negligible, risk of abuse, and that the substance cannot be recovered by readily applicable means or in a yield which would constitute a risk to health”, and (b) it is “containing no more than 100 milligrammes of the substance per dosage unit and with a concentration of not more than 2.5 per cent in undivided preparations”. Paragraph 9(2) lists “acetyldihydrocodeine, codeine, dextropropoxyphene, dihydrocodeine, ethylmorphine (3-ethylmorphine), norcodeine, pholcodine and their respective salts”. Paragraph 14 extends the exception to “Mixtures containing not more than 1 of the preparations specified in paragraphs 9 to 13 above” whose other ingredients are not themselves controlled. The Part II heading, printed in capitals, describes these as preparations “whose importation and exportation is excepted from control”. Section 30 (printed page 16) provides: “The provisions of sections 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 shall not apply to any preparation or other substance for the time being falling within Part II of Schedule 2.” Those sections include the section 14 import and export ban, the store rules and the section 20 possession offence, so a preparation that falls within Part II of Schedule 2 is outside them. Section 15 and new section 5(1) carry no matching exception. A preparation that does not meet both limbs of paragraph 9, for example one above 100 milligrammes per dosage unit or above 2.5 per cent concentration, is not excepted. Cultivation: codeine is a substance, not a plant, and no cultivation row exists for it. The opium poppy is under sections 7 and 8 with its own Schedule 3 bands, which are not a codeine penalty. Administrative: section 16(2) requires any person in possession of a Part IV drug to keep a stock book, and section 39(3) (page 21) provides that “no person, on conviction for any offence of contravening or failing to comply with any rules made under this Act, relating to the keeping of books, or the issuing or dispensing of prescriptions containing drugs to which this Act applies, shall be sentenced to imprisonment without the option of a fine, or to pay a fine exceeding $100”, if the court is satisfied that the offence was committed through inadvertence and was not preparatory to, or committed in connection with, any other offence against this Act. Capital exposure: nothing in the Act or Act 9 of 2025 provides a penalty of death. The largest figures printed are in section 39(2) for this substance. Tuvalu's general law on capital punishment was not checked.
If prescribed / medical: Codeine has a printed exception for compounded low dose preparations, which is a statement about the control regime and not a prescribing rule. Under section 30, a preparation within Part II of Schedule 2 is outside section 14 and sections 16 to 29, including the section 20 possession offence. Section 15(1)(c) lets the Minister make rules “regulating the issue by medical practitioners of prescriptions containing any such dangerous drug and the dispensing of any such prescription”, and section 15(2) requires those rules to authorise a pharmaceutical chemist and druggist to retail, dispense or compound. Section 19 allows withdrawal from the appointed store only to a person on the Medical and Dental Register, a registered pharmacist or a qualified veterinary surgeon. Section 14A, inserted by Act 9 of 2025, lets the Minister license importation, exportation, manufacture, cultivation, sale or use of dangerous drugs “for medical and scientific purposes”, on application in Form G. No rules under section 15 appear in the Act's text or beneath it on the legislation site's index as read on 7 October 2026. The Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32 (2022 Revised Edition), defines “dangerous drug” by reference to section 2 of the Dangerous Drugs Act (section 4, page 7), defines “prescription medicine” as “any medicine specified in Part 1 of the Tuvalu Medicines Schedule” (section 4, page 9), lists “dangerous drugs” and “prescription medicines” as separate classes of that Schedule (section 9(2), page 13), and provides in section 42 (page 28) that its prohibitions and conditions are in addition to those under the Dangerous Drugs Act. The Tuvalu Medicines Schedule itself was not located, so whether a codeine product is classed there as a prescription medicine, a pharmacist only medicine or a dangerous drug is not established by any text read. The text also does not say whether a prescription satisfies the section 5(1) bar on “use” without a section 14A license.
Documentation: Searched: the Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition, 36 pages, and Act 9 of 2025, 9 pages, both read in full, for “codeine”, “norcodeine”, “dihydrocodeine” and “opioid”. Codeine appears in the Act only at Schedule 2 Part I paragraph 1 and Part II paragraph 9(2), and Act 9 of 2025, the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act and the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act were each searched for the word and carry none. The printed pages of the Dangerous Drugs Act carry only the words “2022 Revised Edition” and no consolidation date. The legislation site's home page, https://www.tuvalu-legislation.tv/cms/, read on 7 October 2026, states that the Laws of Tuvalu are in force as at 31st December 2022. The Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act (sections 4, 9 and 42) and the Customs Act (Schedule 2, sections 78, 212, 215 and 216) were read for the provisions cited. Schedule 2 of the Customs Act, as printed, has no entry naming codeine, and its prohibited item 14 (printed page 146) covers “Goods the importation of which is prohibited by any other law in force in Tuvalu.” and its restricted item 9 (printed page 147) covers “Goods the importation of which is regulated by any other law in force in Tuvalu except in accordance with such law.” Tuvalu Medicines Schedule: searched on three routes, the legislation site's subsidiary legislation, notices and gazette indexes, Ministry of Health and government hostnames with web searches, and WHO and Pacific health sources, and no copy was located. Commencement of Act 9 of 2025: it commenced on the date of its publication under its section 1(2), which reads “This Act shall come into force on the date of publication”. The publication date is not printed in the Act and no commencement date is stated here. The Act contains no provision for a personal or traveller allowance for a Part IV drug, and a prescription is a matter of proof under section 20. Whether paragraph 9 applies to a particular codeine product is not decided by the text. Import authorisations are issued by the Senior Medical Officer under section 25. This entry rests on the Dangerous Drugs Act and its 2025 amendment. Tuvalu's Penal Code was not read.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 2, 5, 8, 13 to 16, 19, 20, 22, 25, 27, 30, 35, 39 and Schedule 2 Parts I and II (pages 32 to 35), read on 7 October 2026, sha256 c9e514235adcb847c794d886eb122ee2962045e6ea0e7c9ccaba18526a1cd53e · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025, Act 9 of 2025, sections 1 to 6 and Schedule 3 (pages 5 to 9), read on 7 October 2026, sha256 36ac0ea5a9d1955f1967d00431c2a9e3cd94947e715f3881270ec4f2756863e6 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 4, 9 and 42, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 625b92971e321cb4409bfbe2ce561a8674fa3a7e489afc00254a22e139dd3021 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act 2014, Cap. 26.04, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 78, 212, 215, 216 and Schedule 2, printed pages 47, 108 to 110 and 145 to 147, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 b1747fd3511bcd3111d35f699933d9de68137065643d8bcf6f09d79b4778fbc0 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Tuvalu Legislation On-line home page, read on 7 October 2026 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Updated October 7, 2026

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Crack cocaine is a controlled drug in Tuvalu on this site's reading, controlled through the named entry for cocaine. The word crack appears nowhere in the Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition, or in the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025 (Act 9 of 2025), and no entry names it. The reasoning is structural. Section 2 (page 7) defines “cocaine” as “methyl-benzoyl laevo-ecgonine” in a stated solution test “of which the formula is C17H21O4N”, which is the formula of the free base of cocaine, and paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 2 (page 32) enters “Cocaine.” by name, so that section 13(1) applies Part IV to it: “The provisions of this Part shall apply to the substances for the time being specified in Part I of Schedule 2.” Crack cocaine is cocaine in that free base form. That identification is general chemistry and is not stated in the Act, which uses the phrase “cocaine base” only in Part II paragraph 10 as the measure of strength. Crack is commonly prepared from a cocaine salt, and paragraph 3 covers “Any salt of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 or 2 above”. Crack as commonly sold carries other substances, and paragraph 8 covers “Any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 above”. Part II paragraph 10 excepts only “A preparation of cocaine containing not more than 0.1 per cent of cocaine calculated as cocaine base” that is compounded so that it “has no, or a negligible, risk of abuse”. The text read names no other exception for a cocaine base, and that is a reading of the text, not a printed statement about crack. Act 9 of 2025 does not amend Schedule 2. The model is a schedule printed in the Act, with a power in section 13(2) for the Minister to modify Schedule 2 by order. No order is printed in the 2022 Revised Edition and none appears beneath the Act on the legislation site's index, as read on 7 October 2026.
Consequences if caught: The consequences are those of Part IV for cocaine, because that is the route by which crack is reached. Possession: section 20 (page 14) makes it an offence for a Part IV drug to be “found in the possession of any person or kept in any place other than the appointed store” unless the person “can prove” that it was obtained under the authority of the Act, “in accordance with the prescription of a person whose name appears in the said Medical and Dental Register”, or “from a person having authority to sell it”, or was deposited there without knowledge or consent. The burden of proof is on the person found with the drug. The text prints no quantity threshold, no presumption of supply and no separate offence of possession for supply. Sale, use, manufacture: section 5(1) as replaced by Act 9 of 2025 (page 5) reads “No person shall import, export, manufacture, cultivate, sell, or use any dangerous drug except with a license issued under section 14A.” It does not name possession. Trafficking: the word appears only in section 8(b) and section 12(1)(a) as amended by Act 9 of 2025, which concern Part II substances and prepared opium, and in the headings of Schedule 3 to that Act, and no trafficking offence is printed for a Part IV drug. Import and export: section 14 (page 12) provides “No person shall import or export any substance to which this Part applies, except in accordance with sections 21 to 29”; section 22 requires a valid export authorisation and section 27 a valid import authorisation. Part II paragraph 10, quoted above, excepts a limited cocaine preparation. Section 30 (printed page 16) provides: “The provisions of sections 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 shall not apply to any preparation or other substance for the time being falling within Part II of Schedule 2.” Those sections include the section 14 import and export ban, the store rules and the section 20 possession offence, so a preparation that falls within Part II of Schedule 2 is outside them. Section 15 and new section 5(1) carry no matching exception. Section 35(1) deems articles whose importation is prohibited by the Act to be prohibited goods under the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act. That Act provides three routes for goods prohibited under its section 78. Section 212(1)(a) (printed page 108) makes it an offence to import such goods, with a fine not exceeding $2,000 under section 212(3) (printed page 109). Section 215 (printed page 110), on knowing possession or custody of prohibited imports, carries for an individual a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or both, and for a body corporate a fine not exceeding $10,000, or a fine of 3 times the value of the goods, whichever is the lesser. Section 216 (printed page 110), on knowing purchase, sale, exchange or other acquisition or disposal, carries for an individual a fine not exceeding $5,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or both, and for a body corporate a fine not exceeding $50,000, or 3 times the value of the goods, whichever is the lesser. Item 14 of the list of prohibited imports (printed page 146) reads “Goods the importation of which is prohibited by any other law in force in Tuvalu.” and item 9 of the list of restricted imports (printed page 147) reads “Goods the importation of which is regulated by any other law in force in Tuvalu except in accordance with such law.” The text read does not say whether these Customs Act penalties apply to crack cocaine alongside section 39(2). The text does not say which route a given importation is charged under. Section 35(2) (printed page 19) provides: “If any goods the exportation of which is prohibited or restricted by this Act are exported in contravention thereof, or brought to a wharf or other place to be shipped in any conveyance, the exporter or his agent shall be liable for each offence to forfeit either treble the value of the goods or $200, at the option of the Customs Officer.” The text does not say how that liability relates to section 39(2) or to Schedule 3. Penalty: section 39(2) (page 21) provides for each offence “for which no penalty is otherwise prescribed”, on conviction by the High Court sitting with assessors, “a fine of $4,000 and to imprisonment for 10 years”, or on summary conviction “a fine not exceeding $1,000 and to imprisonment for 5 years”, and forfeiture of the articles in every case. The fine and the term are joined by “and”. Which penalty provision governs is a gap in the text. Section 5(2) says a person in violation of section 5 “shall be sentenced pursuant to Schedule 3”. Section 8(2), inserted by section 4 of Act 9 of 2025 (printed page 6), reads “Any person who commits an offence under this Act shall be sentenced according to Schedule 3.” Section 5(2) is worded for the conduct named in new section 5(1), which is import, export, manufacture, cultivation, sale and use, and does not name possession. The section 20 possession offence therefore reaches Schedule 3, if at all, only through section 8(2), and Schedule 3 has no row for a Part IV drug. Schedule 3 as printed in Act 9 of 2025 has bands only for Indian hemp, opium poppy or coca plant and leaf, and prepared opium, and no row for cocaine or any other substance in Part I of Schedule 2. The text does not say whether a Part IV offence is sentenced under section 39(2) or has no Schedule 3 band. A second gap is scope: section 5 replaced a section that stood in Part II, which section 4(1) confines to raw opium, coca leaf and Indian hemp, while new section 5(1) speaks of “any dangerous drug”. The amending Act does not say whether Part IV substances were meant. Section 42 (page 22) provides that in proceedings under the Act “the production of a certificate purporting to be signed by a government chemist shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated”. Cultivation: crack is a product, not a plant, and no cultivation row exists for it. The coca plant and leaf are a separate Part II control with their own Schedule 3 bands, which are not a penalty for crack. Administrative: section 16(2) requires any person in possession of a Part IV drug to keep a stock book, and section 39(3) (page 21) provides that “no person, on conviction for any offence of contravening or failing to comply with any rules made under this Act, relating to the keeping of books, or the issuing or dispensing of prescriptions containing drugs to which this Act applies, shall be sentenced to imprisonment without the option of a fine, or to pay a fine exceeding $100”, if the court is satisfied that the offence was committed through inadvertence and was not preparatory to, or committed in connection with, any other offence against this Act. Capital exposure: nothing in the Act or Act 9 of 2025 provides a penalty of death. The largest figures printed are in section 39(2) for this substance. Tuvalu's general law on capital punishment was not checked.
If prescribed / medical: The text prints no medical use or prescription route for crack cocaine as such. Cocaine itself is a Part IV drug, and Part IV contemplates a medical route without printing it. Section 15(1)(c) lets the Minister make rules “regulating the issue by medical practitioners of prescriptions containing any such dangerous drug and the dispensing of any such prescription”. Section 19 allows withdrawal from the appointed store only to a person on the Medical and Dental Register, a registered pharmacist or a qualified veterinary surgeon. Section 14A, inserted by Act 9 of 2025, lets the Minister license importation, exportation, manufacture, cultivation, sale or use of dangerous drugs “for medical and scientific purposes”, on application in Form G. No rules under section 15 appear in the Act's text or beneath it on the legislation site's index as read on 7 October 2026. The Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32 (2022 Revised Edition), lists “dangerous drugs” as a class of the Tuvalu Medicines Schedule (section 9(2)(g), page 13) and provides in section 42 (page 28) that its requirements are in addition to those under the Dangerous Drugs Act. The Tuvalu Medicines Schedule itself was not located, so whatever classification it gives cocaine is not established by any text read.
Documentation: Searched: the Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition, 36 pages, and Act 9 of 2025, 9 pages, both read in full, for “crack”, “freebase”, “free base” and “cocaine base”. The words crack, freebase and free base returned no entry in either Act, in the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act or in the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act, and “cocaine base” occurs once, in Part II paragraph 10, so the control reaches crack through the cocaine entry and paragraphs 3 and 8, not through a label. The printed pages of the Dangerous Drugs Act carry only the words “2022 Revised Edition” and no consolidation date. The legislation site's home page, https://www.tuvalu-legislation.tv/cms/, read on 7 October 2026, states that the Laws of Tuvalu are in force as at 31st December 2022. Section 2 defines “crude cocaine” as “any extract of the coca leaf which can be used directly or indirectly for the manufacture of cocaine”, and the term appears in no other provision of the 2022 text. The Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act (sections 9 and 42) and the Customs Act (Schedule 2, sections 78, 212, 215 and 216) were read for the provisions cited. Schedule 2 of the Customs Act, as printed, has no entry naming cocaine or crack, and its prohibited item 14 (printed page 146) covers “Goods the importation of which is prohibited by any other law in force in Tuvalu.” and its restricted item 9 (printed page 147) covers “Goods the importation of which is regulated by any other law in force in Tuvalu except in accordance with such law.” Tuvalu Medicines Schedule: searched on three routes, the legislation site's subsidiary legislation, notices and gazette indexes, Ministry of Health and government hostnames with web searches, and WHO and Pacific health sources, and no copy was located. Commencement of Act 9 of 2025: it commenced on the date of its publication under its section 1(2), which reads “This Act shall come into force on the date of publication”. The publication date is not printed in the Act and no commencement date is stated here. The Act contains no provision for a personal or traveller allowance for a Part IV drug. This entry rests on the Dangerous Drugs Act and its 2025 amendment. Tuvalu's Penal Code was not read.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 2, 5, 8, 13 to 16, 19, 20, 22, 27, 30, 35, 39, 42 and Schedule 2 Parts I and II (pages 32 to 35), read on 7 October 2026, sha256 c9e514235adcb847c794d886eb122ee2962045e6ea0e7c9ccaba18526a1cd53e · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025, Act 9 of 2025, sections 1 to 6 and Schedule 3 (pages 5 to 9), read on 7 October 2026, sha256 36ac0ea5a9d1955f1967d00431c2a9e3cd94947e715f3881270ec4f2756863e6 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 9 and 42, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 625b92971e321cb4409bfbe2ce561a8674fa3a7e489afc00254a22e139dd3021 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act 2014, Cap. 26.04, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 78, 212, 215, 216 and Schedule 2, printed pages 47, 108 to 110 and 145 to 147, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 b1747fd3511bcd3111d35f699933d9de68137065643d8bcf6f09d79b4778fbc0 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Tuvalu Legislation On-line home page, read on 7 October 2026 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Updated October 7, 2026

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DMT

Legal status: Controlled under Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions, trafficking carries imprisonment plus a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: DMT is controlled in Tuvalu under Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions. In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same provisions, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Controlled in Tuvalu as a named dangerous drug under Part IV of the Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10 (2022 Revised Edition), read with the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025 (Act 9 of 2025). Fentanyl is reached by name, not by a group or analogue clause. Section 13(1) (printed page 12) provides: “The provisions of this Part shall apply to the substances for the time being specified in Part I of Schedule 2.” Paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 2 (printed page 32) lists “Fentanyl.” Paragraph 2 reaches “Any ester (other than one expressly mentioned in paragraph 1 above) or ether (other than one so mentioned) of a substance for the time being specified in that paragraph”, paragraph 3 reaches any salt, and paragraph 8 reaches “Any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of a substance” in paragraph 1 (printed page 34). Schedule 2 has no clause that controls fentanyl analogues as a group. A fentanyl derivative that is neither named in paragraph 1 nor an ester, ether or salt of a named substance is a scope boundary that the schedule text does not decide. None of the exceptions in Part II of Schedule 2 (paragraphs 9 to 14, printed pages 34 and 35) names fentanyl. Section 30 (printed page 16) provides: “The provisions of sections 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 shall not apply to any preparation or other substance for the time being falling within Part II of Schedule 2.” Those sections include the section 14 import and export ban, the store rules and the section 20 possession offence, so a preparation that falls within Part II of Schedule 2 is outside them. Section 15 and new section 5(1) carry no matching exception. Section 2 defines “dangerous drug” as “any of the substances which may be from time to time subject to the provisions of this Act”, and section 13(2) lets the Minister modify Schedule 2 by order. No such order is in the text read. The schedule is printed in the Act and carries that delegated amendment power, so the entry is stated as at the 2022 Revised Edition and Act 9 of 2025.
Consequences if caught: Conduct, one at a time, from the text. Possession: section 20 (printed page 14) makes it an offence to be found in possession of a Part IV drug, or to keep it in a place other than the appointed store, unless the person “can prove that such drug was obtained under the authority of this Act, or in accordance with the prescription of a person whose name appears in the said Medical and Dental Register, or from a person having authority to sell it, or was deposited there without his knowledge or consent”. The Act as read carries no quantity threshold, no presumption of supply and no separate offence of possession for supply for Part IV drugs, so the text read draws no line by quantity. Sale, manufacture and use: section 5(1), as replaced by section 3 of Act 9 of 2025 (printed page 5), reads “No person shall import, export, manufacture, cultivate, sell, or use any dangerous drug except with a license issued under section 14A.” Import and export: section 14 (printed page 12) reads “No person shall import or export any substance to which this Part applies, except in accordance with sections 21 to 29.” Section 27 bars importation without a valid import authorisation, section 22 bars export without an export authorisation, and section 3 limits import, export and transhipment to ports approved by the Minister. Trafficking: that word appears in sections 8(b) and 12(1)(a) as amended by Act 9 of 2025, which govern Part II substances and prepared opium, and in the headings of Schedule 3 to Act 9 of 2025, and no Part IV offence is worded as trafficking. Cultivation does not arise for fentanyl, which is a synthetic substance and not a plant. Penalty: section 5(2) provides that a person in violation “is guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be sentenced pursuant to Schedule 3.” Schedule 3 to Act 9 of 2025 (printed pages 8 and 9) prints bands only for Indian hemp, the opium poppy and coca plant, and prepared opium, and has no row for fentanyl. Section 8(2), inserted by section 4 of Act 9 of 2025 (printed page 6), reads “Any person who commits an offence under this Act shall be sentenced according to Schedule 3.” Section 5(2) is worded for the conduct named in new section 5(1), which is import, export, manufacture, cultivation, sale and use, and does not name possession. The section 20 possession offence therefore reaches Schedule 3, if at all, only through section 8(2), and Schedule 3 has no row for a Part IV drug. Section 39(2) (printed page 21) applies to “each offence for which no penalty is otherwise prescribed”: on conviction by the High Court sitting with assessors, “a fine of $4,000 and to imprisonment for 10 years”, or on summary conviction, “a fine not exceeding $1,000 and to imprisonment for 5 years”, with forfeiture of the articles. Fine and imprisonment are joined by “and”. Section 39(4) gives an attempt, solicitation or incitement the same punishment. The text does not say in terms whether section 5(2) with Schedule 3, or section 39(2), governs a Part IV substance such as fentanyl. Schedule 3 prints no band for it and section 39(2) applies where no penalty is otherwise prescribed, but the Act does not connect the two. Customs: section 35(1) (printed page 19) deems articles whose importation the Act prohibits to be goods prohibited under the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act, Cap. 26.04. Section 35(2) (printed page 19) provides: “If any goods the exportation of which is prohibited or restricted by this Act are exported in contravention thereof, or brought to a wharf or other place to be shipped in any conveyance, the exporter or his agent shall be liable for each offence to forfeit either treble the value of the goods or $200, at the option of the Customs Officer.” The text does not say how that liability relates to section 39(2) or to Schedule 3. Item 14 of the list of prohibited imports in Schedule 2 to that Act (printed page 146) reads “Goods the importation of which is prohibited by any other law in force in Tuvalu.” and item 9 of the list of restricted imports (printed page 147) reads “Goods the importation of which is regulated by any other law in force in Tuvalu except in accordance with such law.” For goods prohibited under its section 78, that Act provides three routes. Section 212(1)(a) and (3) (printed pages 108 and 109) sets a fine not exceeding $2,000 for importing them. Section 215 (printed page 110) covers knowing possession or custody of prohibited imports: for an individual a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or both, and for a body corporate a fine not exceeding $10,000, or a fine of 3 times the value of the goods, whichever is the lesser. Section 216 (printed page 110) covers knowing purchase, sale, exchange or other acquisition or disposal: for an individual a fine not exceeding $5,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or both, and for a body corporate a fine not exceeding $50,000, or 3 times the value, whichever is the lesser. The text read does not say whether these Customs Act penalties apply to fentanyl alongside section 39(2). Maximum: the highest penalty the Dangerous Drugs Act text provides for a Part IV drug is the section 39(2) band above, and no provision read in the Act or its 2025 amendment provides a death penalty. Tuvalu's general law on capital punishment was not checked.
If prescribed / medical: The medical route, as the text shows it. Section 14A, inserted by section 6 of Act 9 of 2025 (printed page 6), reads “The Minister may issue licenses for the importation, exportation, manufacture, cultivation, sale, or use of dangerous drugs for medical and scientific purposes.” Section 20 excuses possession that the person proves was obtained “in accordance with the prescription of a person whose name appears in the said Medical and Dental Register”. Section 15(1)(c) (printed page 13) empowers the Minister to make rules “regulating the issue by medical practitioners of prescriptions containing any such dangerous drug and the dispensing of any such prescription”. No rules under section 15 are in the text read, and the legislation site's index of laws, as fetched on 7 October 2026, lists none beneath the Act. Section 42 of the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32 (printed page 28) provides: “If a therapeutic product is also a dangerous drug under the Dangerous Drugs Act, the prohibitions, conditions, and requirements in this Act are in addition to those contained in or imposed under the Dangerous drugs Act.” Section 9 of that Act (printed page 13) requires a Tuvalu Medicines Schedule whose classes include “prescription medicines”, “dangerous drugs” and “prohibited substances”. That Schedule was searched for on three routes and no copy was found, so how it classes fentanyl, or any fentanyl product, is shown by no text read. The text read contains no entry that sets a medical use for fentanyl.
Documentation: Instruments read on 7 October 2026 from the Tuvalu government's own legislation site: the Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition (36 pages; sections 1 to 42 and Schedule 2); the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025, Act 9 of 2025 (9 pages, including Schedule 3); section 9 and section 42 of the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32, 2022 Revised Edition; and section 78, sections 212 to 216 and Schedule 2 of the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act 2014, Cap. 26.04, 2022 Revised Edition. The Dangerous Drugs Act was searched for fentanyl and the text prints that name once, in paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 2. The Customs Act text was searched for fentanyl, heroin, morphine, opium, narcotic and dangerous drug, and names only prepared opium. The endnotes (printed pages 35 and 36) print amendment by Act 4 of 2009 (commencement 6 July 2009) and no later amendment, and the legislation site's index of laws lists Act 9 of 2025 as the amending Act beneath the Dangerous Drugs Act; no other amendment since 1 January 2023 was found. The 2022 Revised Edition does not incorporate Act 9 of 2025, so the two are read together. Commencement: Act 9 of 2025 section 1(2) reads “This Act shall come into force on the date of publication.” The Act commenced on the date of its publication under its section 1(2); the PDF prints no calendar date for that publication, so none is given. Medicines Schedule outcome: the Tuvalu Medicines Schedule under section 9 of the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act was searched for on the legislation site, on Ministry of Health and government hosts, and in WHO and Pacific health sources, and no copy was found. This entry rests on the Dangerous Drugs Act and its 2025 amendment. Tuvalu’s Penal Code was not read. The printed pages of the Dangerous Drugs Act carry only the words “2022 Revised Edition” and no consolidation date. The legislation site’s home page, https://www.tuvalu-legislation.tv/cms/, read on 7 October 2026, states that the Laws of Tuvalu are in force as at 31st December 2022.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 2, 3, 13, 14, 15, 20, 22, 27, 30, 35 and 39 and Schedule 2 Parts I and II, printed pages 7 to 22 and 32 to 36, read on 7 October 2026 (pdftotext over the official PDF, sha256 c9e514235adcb847c794d886eb122ee2962045e6ea0e7c9ccaba18526a1cd53e) · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025, Act 9 of 2025, sections 1, 3, 4 and 6 and Schedule 3, printed pages 5 to 9, read on 7 October 2026 (sha256 36ac0ea5a9d1955f1967d00431c2a9e3cd94947e715f3881270ec4f2756863e6) · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 9 and 42, printed pages 13 and 28, read on 7 October 2026 (sha256 625b92971e321cb4409bfbe2ce561a8674fa3a7e489afc00254a22e139dd3021) · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act 2014, Cap. 26.04, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 78, 212, 215 and 216 and Schedule 2 items 9 and 14, printed pages 47, 108 to 110 and 145 to 147, read on 7 October 2026 (sha256 b1747fd3511bcd3111d35f699933d9de68137065643d8bcf6f09d79b4778fbc0) · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Tuvalu Legislation On-line home page, read on 7 October 2026 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Updated October 7, 2026

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GHB

Legal status: Controlled under Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions, trafficking carries imprisonment plus a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: GHB is controlled in Tuvalu under Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions. In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same provisions, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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Heroin

Legal status: Controlled in Tuvalu as a named dangerous drug under Part IV of the Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10 (2022 Revised Edition), read with the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025 (Act 9 of 2025). Heroin is reached by name, not by a group or analogue clause. Section 13(1) (printed page 12) provides: “The provisions of this Part shall apply to the substances for the time being specified in Part I of Schedule 2.” Paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 2 (printed page 32) lists “Diamorphine.”, and section 2 (printed page 8) defines “diacetylmorphine” as “diacetylmorphine (diamorphine, heroin)”, which ties the printed name Diamorphine to the word heroin. Paragraph 3 reaches any salt of a listed substance, and paragraph 8 reaches “Any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of a substance” in paragraph 1. The exceptions in Part II of Schedule 2 (paragraphs 9 to 14, printed pages 34 and 35) do not name diamorphine: paragraph 9 lists codeine and related substances, paragraph 10 cocaine, and paragraph 11 medicinal opium and morphine. Section 30 (printed page 16) provides: “The provisions of sections 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 shall not apply to any preparation or other substance for the time being falling within Part II of Schedule 2.” Those sections include the section 14 import and export ban, the store rules and the section 20 possession offence, so a preparation that falls within Part II of Schedule 2 is outside them. Section 15 and new section 5(1) carry no matching exception. Section 2 defines “dangerous drug” as “any of the substances which may be from time to time subject to the provisions of this Act”, and section 13(2) lets the Minister modify Schedule 2 by order. No such order is in the text read. The schedule is printed in the Act and carries that delegated amendment power, so the entry is stated as at the 2022 Revised Edition and Act 9 of 2025.
Consequences if caught: Conduct, one at a time, from the text. Possession: section 20 (printed page 14) makes it an offence to be found in possession of a Part IV drug, or to keep it in a place other than the appointed store, unless the person “can prove that such drug was obtained under the authority of this Act, or in accordance with the prescription of a person whose name appears in the said Medical and Dental Register, or from a person having authority to sell it, or was deposited there without his knowledge or consent”. The Act as read carries no quantity threshold, no presumption of supply and no separate offence of possession for supply for Part IV drugs. Sale, manufacture, use and cultivation: section 5(1), as replaced by section 3 of Act 9 of 2025 (printed page 5), reads “No person shall import, export, manufacture, cultivate, sell, or use any dangerous drug except with a license issued under section 14A.” Import and export: section 14 (printed page 12) reads “No person shall import or export any substance to which this Part applies, except in accordance with sections 21 to 29.” Section 27 bars importation without a valid import authorisation, section 22 bars export without an export authorisation, and section 3 limits import, export and transhipment to ports approved by the Minister. Trafficking: that word appears in sections 8(b) and 12(1)(a) as amended by Act 9 of 2025, which govern Part II substances and prepared opium, and in the headings of Schedule 3 to Act 9 of 2025, and no Part IV offence is worded as trafficking. Penalty: section 5(2) provides that a person in violation “is guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be sentenced pursuant to Schedule 3.” Schedule 3 to Act 9 of 2025 (printed pages 8 and 9) prints bands only for Indian hemp, the opium poppy and coca plant, and prepared opium, and has no row for diamorphine. Section 8(2), inserted by section 4 of Act 9 of 2025 (printed page 6), reads “Any person who commits an offence under this Act shall be sentenced according to Schedule 3.” Section 5(2) is worded for the conduct named in new section 5(1), which is import, export, manufacture, cultivation, sale and use, and does not name possession. The section 20 possession offence therefore reaches Schedule 3, if at all, only through section 8(2), and Schedule 3 has no row for a Part IV drug. Section 39(2) (printed page 21) applies to “each offence for which no penalty is otherwise prescribed”: on conviction by the High Court sitting with assessors, “a fine of $4,000 and to imprisonment for 10 years”, or on summary conviction, “a fine not exceeding $1,000 and to imprisonment for 5 years”, with forfeiture of the articles. Fine and imprisonment are joined by “and”. Section 39(4) gives an attempt, solicitation or incitement the same punishment. The text does not say in terms whether section 5(2) with Schedule 3, or section 39(2), governs a Part IV substance such as heroin. Schedule 3 prints no band for it and section 39(2) applies where no penalty is otherwise prescribed, but the Act does not connect the two. Customs: section 35(1) (printed page 19) deems articles whose importation the Act prohibits to be goods prohibited under the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act, Cap. 26.04. Section 35(2) (printed page 19) provides: “If any goods the exportation of which is prohibited or restricted by this Act are exported in contravention thereof, or brought to a wharf or other place to be shipped in any conveyance, the exporter or his agent shall be liable for each offence to forfeit either treble the value of the goods or $200, at the option of the Customs Officer.” The text does not say how that liability relates to section 39(2) or to Schedule 3. Item 14 of the list of prohibited imports in Schedule 2 to that Act (printed page 146) reads “Goods the importation of which is prohibited by any other law in force in Tuvalu.” and item 9 of the list of restricted imports (printed page 147) reads “Goods the importation of which is regulated by any other law in force in Tuvalu except in accordance with such law.” For goods prohibited under its section 78, that Act provides three routes. Section 212(1)(a) and (3) (printed pages 108 and 109) sets a fine not exceeding $2,000 for importing them. Section 215 (printed page 110) covers knowing possession or custody of prohibited imports: for an individual a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or both, and for a body corporate a fine not exceeding $10,000, or a fine of 3 times the value of the goods, whichever is the lesser. Section 216 (printed page 110) covers knowing purchase, sale, exchange or other acquisition or disposal: for an individual a fine not exceeding $5,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or both, and for a body corporate a fine not exceeding $50,000, or 3 times the value, whichever is the lesser. The text read does not say whether these Customs Act penalties apply to diamorphine alongside section 39(2). Maximum: the highest penalty the Dangerous Drugs Act text provides for a Part IV drug is the section 39(2) band above, and no provision read in the Act or its 2025 amendment provides a death penalty. Tuvalu's general law on capital punishment was not checked.
If prescribed / medical: The medical route, as the text shows it. Section 14A, inserted by section 6 of Act 9 of 2025 (printed page 6), reads “The Minister may issue licenses for the importation, exportation, manufacture, cultivation, sale, or use of dangerous drugs for medical and scientific purposes.” Section 20 excuses possession that the person proves was obtained “in accordance with the prescription of a person whose name appears in the said Medical and Dental Register”. Section 15(1)(c) (printed page 13) empowers the Minister to make rules “regulating the issue by medical practitioners of prescriptions containing any such dangerous drug and the dispensing of any such prescription”. No rules under section 15 are in the text read, and the legislation site's index of laws, as fetched on 7 October 2026, lists none beneath the Act. Section 42 of the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32 (printed page 28) provides: “If a therapeutic product is also a dangerous drug under the Dangerous Drugs Act, the prohibitions, conditions, and requirements in this Act are in addition to those contained in or imposed under the Dangerous drugs Act.” Section 9 of that Act (printed page 13) requires a Tuvalu Medicines Schedule whose classes include “prescription medicines”, “dangerous drugs” and “prohibited substances”. That Schedule was searched for on three routes and no copy was found, so how it classes diamorphine is shown by no text read. The text read contains no entry that sets a medical use for diamorphine.
Documentation: Instruments read on 7 October 2026 from the Tuvalu government's own legislation site: the Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition (36 pages; sections 1 to 42 and Schedule 2); the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025, Act 9 of 2025 (9 pages, including Schedule 3); section 9 and section 42 of the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32, 2022 Revised Edition; and section 78, sections 212 to 216 and Schedule 2 of the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act 2014, Cap. 26.04, 2022 Revised Edition. The Customs Act text was searched for fentanyl, heroin, diamorphine, morphine, opium, narcotic and dangerous drug, and names only prepared opium. The Dangerous Drugs Act was searched for heroin and diamorphine and names them only at section 2 and paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 2. The endnotes (printed pages 35 and 36) print amendment by Act 4 of 2009 (commencement 6 July 2009) and no later amendment, and the legislation site's index of laws lists Act 9 of 2025 as the amending Act beneath the Dangerous Drugs Act; no other amendment since 1 January 2023 was found. The 2022 Revised Edition does not incorporate Act 9 of 2025, so the two are read together. Commencement: Act 9 of 2025 section 1(2) reads “This Act shall come into force on the date of publication.” The Act commenced on the date of its publication under its section 1(2); the PDF prints no calendar date for that publication, so none is given. Medicines Schedule outcome: the Tuvalu Medicines Schedule under section 9 of the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act was searched for on the legislation site, on Ministry of Health and government hosts, and in WHO and Pacific health sources, and no copy was found. This entry rests on the Dangerous Drugs Act and its 2025 amendment. Tuvalu’s Penal Code was not read. The printed pages of the Dangerous Drugs Act carry only the words “2022 Revised Edition” and no consolidation date. The legislation site’s home page, https://www.tuvalu-legislation.tv/cms/, read on 7 October 2026, states that the Laws of Tuvalu are in force as at 31st December 2022.

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Controlled in Tuvalu as a named dangerous drug under Part IV of the Dangerous Drugs Act. Hydrocodone is entered by name at paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition (page 32), as “Hydrocodone (dihydrocodeinone).”, and section 13(1) provides: “The provisions of this Part shall apply to the substances for the time being specified in Part I of Schedule 2.” The print wraps the synonym across two lines. Paragraph 2 adds esters and ethers of a paragraph 1 substance, paragraph 3 adds “Any salt of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 or 2 above”, and paragraph 8 adds “Any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 above”. Hydrocodone is not named in any paragraph of Part II of Schedule 2, the part that excepts certain preparations, and the dihydrocodeine that paragraph 9(2) does name is a different entry in paragraph 1 and not a synonym of this one, so no preparation exception is printed for hydrocodone. The Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025 (Act 9 of 2025) does not amend Schedule 2. The model is a schedule printed in the Act, with a power in section 13(2) for the Minister to modify Schedule 2 by order. No order is printed in the 2022 Revised Edition and none appears beneath the Act on the legislation site's index, as read on 7 October 2026.
Consequences if caught: Possession: section 20 (page 14) makes it an offence for a Part IV drug to be “found in the possession of any person or kept in any place other than the appointed store” unless the person “can prove” that it was obtained under the authority of the Act, “in accordance with the prescription of a person whose name appears in the said Medical and Dental Register”, or “from a person having authority to sell it”, or was deposited there without knowledge or consent. The burden of proof is on the person found with the drug. The text prints no quantity threshold, no presumption of supply and no separate offence of possession for supply. Sale, use, manufacture: section 5(1) as replaced by Act 9 of 2025 (page 5) reads “No person shall import, export, manufacture, cultivate, sell, or use any dangerous drug except with a license issued under section 14A.” It does not name possession. Trafficking: the word appears only in section 8(b) and section 12(1)(a) as amended by Act 9 of 2025, which concern Part II substances and prepared opium, and in the headings of Schedule 3 to that Act, and no trafficking offence is printed for a Part IV drug. Import and export: section 14 (page 12) provides “No person shall import or export any substance to which this Part applies, except in accordance with sections 21 to 29”; section 22 requires a valid export authorisation and section 27 a valid import authorisation. Because no Part II exception reaches hydrocodone, section 14 applies to every preparation of it, at any strength. Section 30 (printed page 16) provides: “The provisions of sections 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 shall not apply to any preparation or other substance for the time being falling within Part II of Schedule 2.” Those sections include the section 14 import and export ban, the store rules and the section 20 possession offence, so a preparation that falls within Part II of Schedule 2 is outside them. Section 15 and new section 5(1) carry no matching exception. Section 35(1) deems articles whose importation is prohibited by the Act to be prohibited goods under the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act. That Act provides three routes for goods prohibited under its section 78. Section 212(1)(a) (printed page 108) makes it an offence to import such goods, with a fine not exceeding $2,000 under section 212(3) (printed page 109). Section 215 (printed page 110), on knowing possession or custody of prohibited imports, carries for an individual a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or both, and for a body corporate a fine not exceeding $10,000, or a fine of 3 times the value of the goods, whichever is the lesser. Section 216 (printed page 110), on knowing purchase, sale, exchange or other acquisition or disposal, carries for an individual a fine not exceeding $5,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or both, and for a body corporate a fine not exceeding $50,000, or 3 times the value of the goods, whichever is the lesser. Item 14 of the list of prohibited imports (printed page 146) reads “Goods the importation of which is prohibited by any other law in force in Tuvalu.” and item 9 of the list of restricted imports (printed page 147) reads “Goods the importation of which is regulated by any other law in force in Tuvalu except in accordance with such law.” The text read does not say whether these Customs Act penalties apply to hydrocodone alongside section 39(2). The text does not say which route a given importation is charged under. Section 35(2) (printed page 19) provides: “If any goods the exportation of which is prohibited or restricted by this Act are exported in contravention thereof, or brought to a wharf or other place to be shipped in any conveyance, the exporter or his agent shall be liable for each offence to forfeit either treble the value of the goods or $200, at the option of the Customs Officer.” The text does not say how that liability relates to section 39(2) or to Schedule 3. Penalty: section 39(2) (page 21) provides for each offence “for which no penalty is otherwise prescribed”, on conviction by the High Court sitting with assessors, “a fine of $4,000 and to imprisonment for 10 years”, or on summary conviction “a fine not exceeding $1,000 and to imprisonment for 5 years”, and forfeiture of the articles in every case. The fine and the term are joined by “and”. Which penalty provision governs is a gap in the text. Section 5(2) says a person in violation of section 5 “shall be sentenced pursuant to Schedule 3”. Section 8(2), inserted by section 4 of Act 9 of 2025 (printed page 6), reads “Any person who commits an offence under this Act shall be sentenced according to Schedule 3.” Section 5(2) is worded for the conduct named in new section 5(1), which is import, export, manufacture, cultivation, sale and use, and does not name possession. The section 20 possession offence therefore reaches Schedule 3, if at all, only through section 8(2), and Schedule 3 has no row for a Part IV drug. Schedule 3 as printed in Act 9 of 2025 has bands only for Indian hemp, opium poppy or coca plant and leaf, and prepared opium, and no row for hydrocodone or any other substance in Part I of Schedule 2. The text does not say whether a Part IV offence is sentenced under section 39(2) or has no Schedule 3 band. A second gap is scope: section 5 replaced a section that stood in Part II, which section 4(1) confines to raw opium, coca leaf and Indian hemp, while new section 5(1) speaks of “any dangerous drug”. The amending Act does not say whether Part IV substances were meant. Cultivation: hydrocodone is a substance, not a plant, and no cultivation row exists for it. Administrative: section 16(2) requires any person in possession of a Part IV drug to keep a stock book, and section 39(3) (page 21) provides that “no person, on conviction for any offence of contravening or failing to comply with any rules made under this Act, relating to the keeping of books, or the issuing or dispensing of prescriptions containing drugs to which this Act applies, shall be sentenced to imprisonment without the option of a fine, or to pay a fine exceeding $100”, if the court is satisfied that the offence was committed through inadvertence and was not preparatory to, or committed in connection with, any other offence against this Act. Capital exposure: nothing in the Act or Act 9 of 2025 provides a penalty of death. The largest figures printed are in section 39(2) for this substance. Tuvalu's general law on capital punishment was not checked.
If prescribed / medical: The text of the Act reaches hydrocodone as a Part IV drug and prints no prescription route for it. Section 15(1)(c) lets the Minister make rules “regulating the issue by medical practitioners of prescriptions containing any such dangerous drug and the dispensing of any such prescription”, and section 15(2) requires those rules to authorise a pharmaceutical chemist and druggist to retail, dispense or compound. Section 19 allows withdrawal from the appointed store only to a person on the Medical and Dental Register, a registered pharmacist or a qualified veterinary surgeon. Section 14A, inserted by Act 9 of 2025, lets the Minister license importation, exportation, manufacture, cultivation, sale or use of dangerous drugs “for medical and scientific purposes”, on application in Form G. No rules under section 15 appear in the Act's text or beneath it on the legislation site's index as read on 7 October 2026. The Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32 (2022 Revised Edition), defines “dangerous drug” by reference to section 2 of the Dangerous Drugs Act (section 4, page 7), lists “dangerous drugs” as a class of the Tuvalu Medicines Schedule (section 9(2)(g), page 13), and provides in section 42 (page 28) that its prohibitions and conditions are in addition to those under the Dangerous Drugs Act. The Tuvalu Medicines Schedule itself was not located, so whether a hydrocodone product is classed there as a prescription medicine, a dangerous drug or something else is not established by any text read. The text also does not say whether a prescription satisfies the section 5(1) bar on “use” without a section 14A license.
Documentation: Searched: the Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition, 36 pages, and Act 9 of 2025, 9 pages, both read in full, for “hydrocodone”, “dihydrocodeinone” and “hydrocodeinone”. The only entry is Schedule 2 Part I paragraph 1, where the synonym is printed across a line break, and Act 9 of 2025, the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act and the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act were each searched for the word and carry none. The printed pages of the Dangerous Drugs Act carry only the words “2022 Revised Edition” and no consolidation date. The legislation site's home page, https://www.tuvalu-legislation.tv/cms/, read on 7 October 2026, states that the Laws of Tuvalu are in force as at 31st December 2022. Every paragraph of Part II of Schedule 2, paragraphs 9 to 14, was read for hydrocodone and none names it. The Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act (sections 4, 9 and 42) and the Customs Act (Schedule 2, sections 78, 212, 215 and 216) were read for the provisions cited. Schedule 2 of the Customs Act, as printed, has no entry naming hydrocodone, and its prohibited item 14 (printed page 146) covers “Goods the importation of which is prohibited by any other law in force in Tuvalu.” and its restricted item 9 (printed page 147) covers “Goods the importation of which is regulated by any other law in force in Tuvalu except in accordance with such law.” Tuvalu Medicines Schedule: searched on three routes, the legislation site's subsidiary legislation, notices and gazette indexes, Ministry of Health and government hostnames with web searches, and WHO and Pacific health sources, and no copy was located. Commencement of Act 9 of 2025: it commenced on the date of its publication under its section 1(2), which reads “This Act shall come into force on the date of publication”. The publication date is not printed in the Act and no commencement date is stated here. The Act contains no provision for a personal or traveller allowance for a Part IV drug, and a prescription is a matter of proof under section 20. Import authorisations are issued by the Senior Medical Officer under section 25. This entry rests on the Dangerous Drugs Act and its 2025 amendment. Tuvalu's Penal Code was not read.

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LSD

Legal status: Controlled under Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions, trafficking carries imprisonment plus a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: LSD is controlled in Tuvalu under Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions. In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same provisions, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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MDMA

Legal status: Controlled under Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions, trafficking carries imprisonment plus a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: MDMA is controlled in Tuvalu under Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions. In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same provisions, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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Mescaline

Legal status: Controlled under Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions, trafficking carries imprisonment plus a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Mescaline is controlled in Tuvalu under Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions. In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same provisions, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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Methadone

Legal status: Controlled in Tuvalu as a named dangerous drug under Part IV of the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition). Paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 2 lists “Methadone.” (page 33), and section 13(1) says “The provisions of this Part shall apply to the substances for the time being specified in Part I of Schedule 2”. Paragraph 3 adds “Any salt of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 or 2 above” and paragraph 8 adds “Any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 above” (page 34). Methadone is not among the substances listed in paragraph 9(2) of Part II of Schedule 2, and paragraphs 10 to 14 of Part II concern cocaine, opium and morphine, diphenoxylate, ipecacuanha and opium powder, and mixtures of those preparations, so no Part II exception names it. Section 30 (printed page 16) provides: “The provisions of sections 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 shall not apply to any preparation or other substance for the time being falling within Part II of Schedule 2.” Those sections include the section 14 import and export ban, the store rules and the section 20 possession offence, so a preparation that falls within Part II of Schedule 2 is outside them. Section 15 and new section 5(1) carry no matching exception. Isomethadone and Normethadone are separate entries in paragraph 1. Stated as at the 2022 Revised Edition as amended by the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025.
Consequences if caught: Possession. Section 20 says that when a dangerous drug to which Part IV applies “is found in the possession of any person or kept in any place other than the appointed store”, that person or the occupier of the place, “unless he can prove that such drug was obtained under the authority of this Act, or in accordance with the prescription of a person whose name appears in the said Medical and Dental Register, or from a person having authority to sell it, or was deposited there without his knowledge or consent”, and also the owner or any person guilty of keeping it, “shall be guilty of an offence against this Act”. The burden of proof sits on the person found in possession. Section 16(2) says a person in possession of such a drug “shall keep a stock book in such form as shall be prescribed by rule made under this Part”. No quantity threshold, minimum sentence or presumption of supply is printed for Part IV drugs. Sale, supply and manufacture. Section 15(1) lets the Minister make rules “for controlling the manufacture, sale, possession, distribution and custody” of these drugs, including “prohibiting the manufacture, sale or distribution of any such dangerous drugs, except by persons licensed or otherwise authorised under the rules”, and section 15(2) says the rules “shall provide for authorising” a pharmaceutical chemist and druggist to manufacture preparations and to retail, dispense or compound. New section 5(1), replaced by section 3 of the 2025 Act, says “No person shall import, export, manufacture, cultivate, sell, or use any dangerous drug except with a license issued under section 14A”, which also reaches use. The word trafficking appears only in section 8(b) for Part II substances and in section 12(1)(a) for prepared opium, as amended, and in the Schedule 3 rows for Indian hemp, opium poppy or coca plant and prepared opium, and not in Part IV. Cultivation is not applicable to methadone and the text says nothing of it. Import and export. Section 3 says “No person shall import, export, tranship or divert dangerous drugs except through ports approved by the Minister”. Section 14 says no person shall import or export a Part IV substance “except in accordance with sections 21 to 29”. Section 27 says “No dangerous drug shall be imported unless the person to whom the drug is consigned is in possession of a valid and subsisting import authorisation granted in pursuance of this Act”, section 25 lets the Senior Medical Officer grant it “subject to such conditions as he shall deem fit”, section 28 requires an export authorisation or diversion certificate to accompany a drug from a country that is a party to the Convention, and section 22 says no such drug shall be exported “unless the exporter is in possession of a valid and subsisting export authorisation”. A search of both Acts for traveller, passenger, personal use, baggage and luggage returned nothing, so the text read contains no exemption for a person carrying methadone for personal use. The only exemption for carriage that the text read prints in terms is section 31(5), which concerns drugs in transit by post or by air without the aircraft landing, and quantities that “bona fide reasonably form part of the medical stores of any ship or aircraft”. Penalty. Schedule 3 to the 2025 Act has rows only for Indian hemp, opium poppy or coca plant and prepared opium, and no row for methadone or any other Part IV drug. New section 5(2) says a person in violation of section 5 “is guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be sentenced pursuant to Schedule 3”. Section 8(2), inserted by section 4 of Act 9 of 2025 (printed page 6), reads “Any person who commits an offence under this Act shall be sentenced according to Schedule 3.” Section 5(2) is worded for the conduct named in new section 5(1), which is import, export, manufacture, cultivation, sale and use, and does not name possession. The section 20 possession offence therefore reaches Schedule 3, if at all, only through section 8(2), and Schedule 3 has no row for a Part IV drug. Section 8(2) speaks of an offence under “this Act”, not of an offence under a Part. Section 39(2) says every person guilty of an offence under the Act shall, in respect of each offence “for which no penalty is otherwise prescribed”, be liable on conviction by the High Court sitting with assessors to a fine of $4,000 and to imprisonment for 10 years, or on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 and to imprisonment for 5 years, and shall forfeit the articles. Both limbs join the fine and the imprisonment with and. The text does not say which of these routes governs a Part IV offence, so no single band is stated for methadone. Section 39(3) caps a fine at $100 and bars imprisonment without the option of a fine for a breach of rules on keeping books or on issuing or dispensing prescriptions that the court is satisfied was committed through inadvertence. Attempt, soliciting and inciting carry the same punishment (section 39(4)). Section 35(1) deems articles whose importation the Act prohibits to be prohibited goods under the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act. Section 35(2) (printed page 19) provides: “If any goods the exportation of which is prohibited or restricted by this Act are exported in contravention thereof, or brought to a wharf or other place to be shipped in any conveyance, the exporter or his agent shall be liable for each offence to forfeit either treble the value of the goods or $200, at the option of the Customs Officer.” The text does not say how that liability relates to section 39(2) or to Schedule 3. For goods prohibited under section 78 of that Act, section 212(1)(a) makes importing them an offence, with a fine not exceeding $2,000 under section 212(3) (pages 108 and 109). Section 215 makes knowing possession or custody of prohibited imports an offence, with, for an individual, a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or both, and, for a body corporate, a fine not exceeding $10,000, or a fine of 3 times the value of the goods, whichever is the lesser (page 110). Section 216 makes knowing purchase, sale, exchange or other acquisition or disposal an offence, with, for an individual, a fine not exceeding $5,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or both, and, for a body corporate, a fine not exceeding $50,000, or 3 times the value of the goods, whichever is the lesser (page 110). Item 14 of the list of prohibited imports (printed page 146) reads “Goods the importation of which is prohibited by any other law in force in Tuvalu.” and item 9 of the list of restricted imports (printed page 147) reads “Goods the importation of which is regulated by any other law in force in Tuvalu except in accordance with such law.” The text read does not say whether these Customs Act penalties apply to methadone alongside section 39(2). Capital exposure. The text of the Dangerous Drugs Act and of the 2025 Act contains no death penalty. The highest maximum printed anywhere in the 2025 Schedule 3 is life imprisonment, for selling or trafficking more than 10 grams of prepared opium, which does not reach methadone as printed. Tuvalu’s general law on capital punishment was not checked.
If prescribed / medical: The text refers to prescriptions in section 20 and section 15(1)(c) but prints no prescribing rules. Section 20 excuses possession of a Part IV drug where the person proves it was obtained “in accordance with the prescription of a person whose name appears in the said Medical and Dental Register”. Section 15(1)(c) lets the Minister make rules “regulating the issue by medical practitioners of prescriptions containing any such dangerous drug and the dispensing of any such prescription”. Section 19 says no officer shall authorise withdrawal of such a drug from the store “except to a person whose name appears in the Medical and Dental Register kept in pursuance of the Health Professionals Act or who is a registered pharmacist or qualified veterinary surgeon”. New section 14A, inserted by section 6 of the 2025 Act, says “The Minister may issue licenses for the importation, exportation, manufacture, cultivation, sale, or use of dangerous drugs for medical and scientific purposes”, on conditions the Minister prescribes. Section 42 of the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act says that if a therapeutic product is also a dangerous drug, “the prohibitions, conditions, and requirements in this Act are in addition to those contained in or imposed under the Dangerous drugs Act” (page 28). The rules under section 15 were not found. The Tuvalu Medicines Schedule that section 9 of that Act requires was searched for on three routes and not found, so the prescription classification of methadone under it is not established.
Documentation: Read in full: the Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition (36 pages, printed commencement 20th October 1948), and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025, Act 9 of 2025 (9 pages), which says in section 1(2) “This Act shall come into force on the date of publication”. It commenced on the date of its publication under its section 1(2); the text gives no date and none is stated. The 2025 Act is not consolidated into the 2022 Revised Edition. The printed pages of the Dangerous Drugs Act carry only the words “2022 Revised Edition” and no consolidation date. The legislation site’s home page, https://www.tuvalu-legislation.tv/cms/, read on 7 October 2026, states that the Laws of Tuvalu are in force as at 31st December 2022. This entry rests on the Dangerous Drugs Act and its 2025 amendment. Tuvalu’s Penal Code was not read. Also read: sections 78, 212, 215 and 216, item 14 of the list of prohibited imports and item 9 of the list of restricted imports in Schedule 2 of the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act 2014, Cap. 26.04, 2022 Revised Edition (the PDF prints “Customers”), and sections 9 and 42 of the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32, 2022 Revised Edition. Searched in the text of the Dangerous Drugs Act: methadon returns Isomethadone, Methadone and Normethadone in Schedule 2 and no other hit. The word rules occurs only in sections 15, 16(2), 38(2) and 39 as a power or a reference, and no rules are printed. The tuvalu-legislation.tv all-legislation index page, read on 7 October 2026 (sha256 f1a30168fc3e2cb5944e6849a1de4afc5ceffddaa6b71bed2cf522c86d0c3070), lists beneath the Dangerous Drugs Act only the 2025 amendment and lists no rules, so whether any rules were made is not established. The Tuvalu Medicines Schedule was searched for on 7 October 2026 on three routes: the tuvalu-legislation.tv legislation, subsidiary legislation, notices and gazette pages; the government and Ministry of Health websites, where the hostnames tried returned no connection; and WHO and Pacific health sources. It was not found. The text does not say whether the import authorisation route in sections 25 and 27 or the licence route in section 14A is available to a person carrying methadone for personal use. No court decision, penalty practice or issued authorisation was read.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 3, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 22, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 35 and 39 and Schedule 2 Parts I and II, pages 10 to 22 and 32 to 35, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 c9e514235adcb847c794d886eb122ee2962045e6ea0e7c9ccaba18526a1cd53e · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025, Act 9 of 2025, sections 1 to 6 and Schedule 3, pages 5 to 9, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 36ac0ea5a9d1955f1967d00431c2a9e3cd94947e715f3881270ec4f2756863e6 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act 2014, Cap. 26.04, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 78, 212, 215 and 216 and Schedule 2 list of prohibited imports item 14 and list of restricted imports item 9, pages 47, 108 to 110 and 146 to 147, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 b1747fd3511bcd3111d35f699933d9de68137065643d8bcf6f09d79b4778fbc0 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32, 2022 Revised Edition, section 9 page 13 and section 42 page 28, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 625b92971e321cb4409bfbe2ce561a8674fa3a7e489afc00254a22e139dd3021 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · tuvalu-legislation.tv all-legislation index page, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 f1a30168fc3e2cb5944e6849a1de4afc5ceffddaa6b71bed2cf522c86d0c3070 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Tuvalu Legislation On-line home page, read on 7 October 2026 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Updated October 7, 2026

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Controlled under Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions, trafficking carries imprisonment plus a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Methamphetamine is controlled in Tuvalu under Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions. In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same provisions, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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Morphine

Legal status: Controlled in Tuvalu as a named dangerous drug under Part IV of the Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10 (2022 Revised Edition), read with the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025 (Act 9 of 2025). Morphine is reached by name, not by a group or analogue clause. Section 13(1) (printed page 12) provides: “The provisions of this Part shall apply to the substances for the time being specified in Part I of Schedule 2.” Paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 2 (printed page 33) lists “Morphine.”, together with morphine methobromide and other pentavalent nitrogen morphine derivatives, and the heading of Part IV itself names morphine alongside medicinal opium and cocaine. Paragraph 3 reaches any salt, and paragraph 8 reaches “Any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of a substance” in paragraph 1 (printed page 34). One exception applies to morphine. Paragraph 11 of Part II of Schedule 2 (printed pages 34 and 35) reads “A preparation of medicinal opium or of morphine containing (in either case) not more than 0.2 per cent of morphine calculated as anhydrous morphine base, being a preparation compounded with 1 or more other ingredients in such a way that the preparation has no, or a negligible, risk of abuse and that the opium or, as the case may be, the morphine, cannot be recovered by readily applicable means or in a yield which would constitute a risk to health.” Section 30 (printed page 16) provides: “The provisions of sections 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 shall not apply to any preparation or other substance for the time being falling within Part II of Schedule 2.” Those sections include the section 14 import and export ban, the store rules and the section 20 possession offence, so a preparation that falls within Part II of Schedule 2 is outside them. Section 15 and new section 5(1) carry no matching exception. Part II is headed as concerning preparations and other substances falling within Part I whose importation and exportation is excepted from control. The text read prints no exception from section 5(1) and section 15 for such a preparation. Morphine as the alkaloid is also a constituent of raw opium, which section 2 defines as the coagulated juice of the capsules “whatever its morphine content” and which Part II of the Act controls separately. Section 2 defines “dangerous drug” as “any of the substances which may be from time to time subject to the provisions of this Act”, and section 13(2) lets the Minister modify Schedule 2 by order. No such order is in the text read. The schedule is printed in the Act and carries that delegated amendment power, so the entry is stated as at the 2022 Revised Edition and Act 9 of 2025.
Consequences if caught: Conduct, one at a time, from the text. Possession: section 20 (printed page 14) makes it an offence to be found in possession of a Part IV drug, or to keep it in a place other than the appointed store, unless the person “can prove that such drug was obtained under the authority of this Act, or in accordance with the prescription of a person whose name appears in the said Medical and Dental Register, or from a person having authority to sell it, or was deposited there without his knowledge or consent”. The Act as read carries no quantity threshold, no presumption of supply and no separate offence of possession for supply for Part IV drugs. Sale, manufacture and use: section 5(1), as replaced by section 3 of Act 9 of 2025 (printed page 5), reads “No person shall import, export, manufacture, cultivate, sell, or use any dangerous drug except with a license issued under section 14A.” Import and export: section 14 (printed page 12) reads “No person shall import or export any substance to which this Part applies, except in accordance with sections 21 to 29.” Section 27 bars importation without a valid import authorisation, section 22 bars export without an export authorisation, and section 3 limits import, export and transhipment to ports approved by the Minister. Trafficking: that word appears in sections 8(b) and 12(1)(a) as amended by Act 9 of 2025, which govern Part II substances and prepared opium, and in the headings of Schedule 3 to Act 9 of 2025, and no Part IV offence is worded as trafficking. Penalty: section 5(2) provides that a person in violation “is guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be sentenced pursuant to Schedule 3.” Schedule 3 to Act 9 of 2025 (printed pages 8 and 9) prints bands only for Indian hemp, the opium poppy and coca plant, and prepared opium, and has no row for morphine. Section 8(2), inserted by section 4 of Act 9 of 2025 (printed page 6), reads “Any person who commits an offence under this Act shall be sentenced according to Schedule 3.” Section 5(2) is worded for the conduct named in new section 5(1), which is import, export, manufacture, cultivation, sale and use, and does not name possession. The section 20 possession offence therefore reaches Schedule 3, if at all, only through section 8(2), and Schedule 3 has no row for a Part IV drug. Section 39(2) (printed page 21) applies to “each offence for which no penalty is otherwise prescribed”: on conviction by the High Court sitting with assessors, “a fine of $4,000 and to imprisonment for 10 years”, or on summary conviction, “a fine not exceeding $1,000 and to imprisonment for 5 years”, with forfeiture of the articles. Fine and imprisonment are joined by “and”. Section 39(4) gives an attempt, solicitation or incitement the same punishment. The text does not say in terms whether section 5(2) with Schedule 3, or section 39(2), governs a Part IV substance such as morphine. Schedule 3 prints no band for it and section 39(2) applies where no penalty is otherwise prescribed, but the Act does not connect the two. Customs: section 35(1) (printed page 19) deems articles whose importation the Act prohibits to be goods prohibited under the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act, Cap. 26.04. Section 35(2) (printed page 19) provides: “If any goods the exportation of which is prohibited or restricted by this Act are exported in contravention thereof, or brought to a wharf or other place to be shipped in any conveyance, the exporter or his agent shall be liable for each offence to forfeit either treble the value of the goods or $200, at the option of the Customs Officer.” The text does not say how that liability relates to section 39(2) or to Schedule 3. Item 14 of the list of prohibited imports in Schedule 2 to that Act (printed page 146) reads “Goods the importation of which is prohibited by any other law in force in Tuvalu.” and item 9 of the list of restricted imports (printed page 147) reads “Goods the importation of which is regulated by any other law in force in Tuvalu except in accordance with such law.” For goods prohibited under its section 78, that Act provides three routes. Section 212(1)(a) and (3) (printed pages 108 and 109) sets a fine not exceeding $2,000 for importing them. Section 215 (printed page 110) covers knowing possession or custody of prohibited imports: for an individual a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or both, and for a body corporate a fine not exceeding $10,000, or a fine of 3 times the value of the goods, whichever is the lesser. Section 216 (printed page 110) covers knowing purchase, sale, exchange or other acquisition or disposal: for an individual a fine not exceeding $5,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or both, and for a body corporate a fine not exceeding $50,000, or 3 times the value, whichever is the lesser. The text read does not say whether these Customs Act penalties apply to morphine alongside section 39(2). Maximum: the highest penalty the Dangerous Drugs Act text provides for a Part IV drug is the section 39(2) band above, and no provision read in the Act or its 2025 amendment provides a death penalty. Tuvalu's general law on capital punishment was not checked.
If prescribed / medical: The medical route, as the text shows it. Section 14A, inserted by section 6 of Act 9 of 2025 (printed page 6), reads “The Minister may issue licenses for the importation, exportation, manufacture, cultivation, sale, or use of dangerous drugs for medical and scientific purposes.” Section 20 excuses possession that the person proves was obtained “in accordance with the prescription of a person whose name appears in the said Medical and Dental Register”. Sections 16 to 19 (printed page 14) require imported Part IV drugs to be deposited in the appointed store and released only on the written authority of the Senior Medical Officer, and only to a person on the Medical and Dental Register or a registered pharmacist or qualified veterinary surgeon. Section 15(1)(c) (printed page 13) empowers the Minister to make rules “regulating the issue by medical practitioners of prescriptions containing any such dangerous drug and the dispensing of any such prescription”. No rules under section 15 are in the text read, and the legislation site's index of laws, as fetched on 7 October 2026, lists none beneath the Act. Paragraph 11 of Part II of Schedule 2, quoted above, covers low strength compounded morphine preparations. Under section 30, a preparation within Part II of Schedule 2 is outside section 14 and sections 16 to 29, including the section 20 possession offence. Section 42 of the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32 (printed page 28) provides: “If a therapeutic product is also a dangerous drug under the Dangerous Drugs Act, the prohibitions, conditions, and requirements in this Act are in addition to those contained in or imposed under the Dangerous drugs Act.” Section 9 of that Act (printed page 13) requires a Tuvalu Medicines Schedule whose classes include “prescription medicines”, “dangerous drugs” and “prohibited substances”. That Schedule was searched for on three routes and no copy was found, so how it classes morphine is shown by no text read.
Documentation: Instruments read on 7 October 2026 from the Tuvalu government's own legislation site: the Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition (36 pages; sections 1 to 42 and Schedule 2); the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025, Act 9 of 2025 (9 pages, including Schedule 3); section 9 and section 42 of the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32, 2022 Revised Edition; and section 78, sections 212 to 216 and Schedule 2 of the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act 2014, Cap. 26.04, 2022 Revised Edition. The Dangerous Drugs Act was searched for morphine and the name appears in the section 2 definitions, the Part IV heading, paragraph 1 and paragraph 11 of Schedule 2. The Customs Act text was searched for morphine, heroin, fentanyl, opium, narcotic and dangerous drug, and names only prepared opium. The endnotes (printed pages 35 and 36) print amendment by Act 4 of 2009 (commencement 6 July 2009) and no later amendment, and the legislation site's index of laws lists Act 9 of 2025 as the amending Act beneath the Dangerous Drugs Act; no other amendment since 1 January 2023 was found. The 2022 Revised Edition does not incorporate Act 9 of 2025, so the two are read together. Commencement: Act 9 of 2025 section 1(2) reads “This Act shall come into force on the date of publication.” The Act commenced on the date of its publication under its section 1(2); the PDF prints no calendar date for that publication, so none is given. Medicines Schedule outcome: the Tuvalu Medicines Schedule under section 9 of the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act was searched for on the legislation site, on Ministry of Health and government hosts, and in WHO and Pacific health sources, and no copy was found. This entry rests on the Dangerous Drugs Act and its 2025 amendment. Tuvalu’s Penal Code was not read. The printed pages of the Dangerous Drugs Act carry only the words “2022 Revised Edition” and no consolidation date. The legislation site’s home page, https://www.tuvalu-legislation.tv/cms/, read on 7 October 2026, states that the Laws of Tuvalu are in force as at 31st December 2022.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 2, 3, 13, 14, 15, 16 to 19, 20, 22, 27, 30, 35 and 39 and Schedule 2 Parts I and II, printed pages 7 to 22 and 32 to 36, read on 7 October 2026 (pdftotext over the official PDF, sha256 c9e514235adcb847c794d886eb122ee2962045e6ea0e7c9ccaba18526a1cd53e) · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025, Act 9 of 2025, sections 1, 3, 4 and 6 and Schedule 3, printed pages 5 to 9, read on 7 October 2026 (sha256 36ac0ea5a9d1955f1967d00431c2a9e3cd94947e715f3881270ec4f2756863e6) · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 9 and 42, printed pages 13 and 28, read on 7 October 2026 (sha256 625b92971e321cb4409bfbe2ce561a8674fa3a7e489afc00254a22e139dd3021) · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act 2014, Cap. 26.04, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 78, 212, 215 and 216 and Schedule 2 items 9 and 14, printed pages 47, 108 to 110 and 145 to 147, read on 7 October 2026 (sha256 b1747fd3511bcd3111d35f699933d9de68137065643d8bcf6f09d79b4778fbc0) · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Tuvalu Legislation On-line home page, read on 7 October 2026 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Updated October 7, 2026

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Opium

Legal status: Controlled in Tuvalu under the Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10 (2022 Revised Edition), read with the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025 (Act 9 of 2025), and opium is named in three separate forms that sit in three separate Parts. Raw opium is controlled by Part II. Section 4(1) (printed page 10) reads “The provisions of this Part of this Act shall apply to raw opium, coca leaf and Indian hemp and resins obtained from Indian hemp and preparations of which such resins form the base.” Section 2 (printed page 9) defines “raw opium” as “the spontaneously coagulated juice obtained from the capsules of the Papaver somniferum which has been submitted only to the necessary manipulations for packing and transport, whatever its morphine content”. Prepared opium is controlled by Part III, and section 2 defines it as “the product of raw opium obtained by a series of special operations, especially by dissolving, boiling, roasting and fermentation designed to transform it into an extract suitable for consumption, and includes dross and all other residues remaining after opium has been smoked”. Medicinal opium is controlled by Part IV: paragraph 6 of Part I of Schedule 2 (printed page 34) reads “Medicinal opium.”, and section 2 defines it as “raw opium which has undergone the processes necessary to adapt it for medicinal use in accordance with the requirements of the British Pharmacopoeia”. Paragraph 5 of the same Part also names the concentrate of poppy straw, and paragraph 8 reaches any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of a substance in paragraphs 1 to 7. Opium is therefore reached by name in each form. The plant is controlled too: section 7 (printed page 10) reads “No person shall cultivate in Tuvalu the opium poppy or Indian hemp or coca leaf plant.” Part II of Schedule 2 excepts two opium preparations, and mixtures of them under paragraph 14, in paragraph 11 (medicinal opium or morphine, not more than 0.2 per cent of morphine calculated as anhydrous morphine base, compounded so as to have no or a negligible risk of abuse) and paragraph 13 (the compound ipecacuanha and opium powder of 10 per cent opium). Section 30 (printed page 16) provides: “The provisions of sections 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 shall not apply to any preparation or other substance for the time being falling within Part II of Schedule 2.” Those sections include the section 14 import and export ban, the store rules and the section 20 possession offence, so a preparation that falls within Part II of Schedule 2 is outside them. Section 15 and new section 5(1) carry no matching exception. Section 13(2) lets the Minister modify Schedule 2 by order, and no such order is in the text read. The schedule is printed in the Act and carries that delegated amendment power, so the entry is stated as at the 2022 Revised Edition and Act 9 of 2025.
Consequences if caught: Conduct, by form of opium, from the text. Raw opium. Possession and sale: section 8(b) as amended by section 4 of Act 9 of 2025 (printed page 6) makes guilty of an offence every person “found in possession of or selling, or otherwise traffics or engages in the trafficking of, to any person any substance to which this Part applies”. Import and export: section 4(2) reads “No person shall import or export any of the substances to which this Part applies.” Cultivation of the opium poppy: sections 7 and 8(a), the latter reaching a person who “knowingly cultivates opium poppy, Indian hemp or coca leaf whether for private use or otherwise”. Seeds: the 2022 section 5 banned import and export of any seed of the opium poppy, but section 3 of Act 9 of 2025 repeals section 5 in its entirety and replaces it with a new section 5 that does not mention seeds. Prepared opium. Section 11 (printed page 11) reads “No person shall import or export any prepared opium, or any pipes or other utensils for use in connection with the smoking of opium, or any utensil for use in connection with the preparation of opium for consumption.” Section 12(1) makes it an offence to manufacture, sell, deal in or traffic prepared opium (paragraph (a) as replaced by section 5 of Act 9 of 2025), to possess prepared opium, to occupy or manage premises used for preparing or selling it, to possess pipes or utensils, or to smoke or otherwise use prepared opium or frequent a place used for opium smoking. Medicinal opium. It is a Part IV drug, so section 20 (printed page 14) makes it an offence to be found in possession of it unless the person can prove it was obtained under the authority of the Act, on the prescription of a person on the Medical and Dental Register, or from a person having authority to sell it, and sections 14, 22 and 27 require an authorisation to import or export it. The Act as read carries no presumption of supply and no separate offence of possession for supply for any form of opium. Penalty bands in Schedule 3 to Act 9 of 2025 (printed pages 8 and 9), quoted as printed with the gaps left in. For the opium poppy or coca plant: growing, “Not exceeding 1 plants” maximum 5 years, minimum 12 months, and “More than 3 plants” maximum 10 years, minimum 2 years, with no band for 2 or 3 plants; possession, “Not exceeding 5 grams” maximum 5 years, minimum 24 months, and “More than 10 grams” maximum 7 years, minimum 24 months, with no band for more than 5 and up to 10 grams; selling or trafficking, “Not exceeding 5 grams” maximum 7 years, minimum 2 years, and “More than 5 grams” maximum 20 years, minimum 3 years. For prepared opium: manufacture, “Not exceeding 10 grams” maximum 7 years, minimum 24 months, with no band printed above 10 grams; selling or trafficking, not exceeding 10 grams maximum 15 years, minimum 5 years, and more than 10 grams “Maximum of life imprisonment”, minimum 7 years; possession, not exceeding 10 grams maximum 7 years, minimum 24 months, and more than 10 grams maximum 10 years, minimum 3 years; occupier of premises, maximum 10 years, minimum 24 months; management of premises, maximum 7 years, minimum 24 months; possession of pipes or utensils, maximum 5 years, minimum 24 months; smoking or using, not exceeding 10 grams maximum 10 years, minimum 24 months, and more than 10 grams maximum 20 years, with no minimum printed. Section 8(2), inserted by section 4 of Act 9 of 2025 (printed page 6), reads “Any person who commits an offence under this Act shall be sentenced according to Schedule 3.” Section 5(2) is worded for the conduct named in new section 5(1), which is import, export, manufacture, cultivation, sale and use, and does not name possession. The section 20 possession offence therefore reaches Schedule 3, if at all, only through section 8(2), and Schedule 3 has no row for a Part IV drug. Where the text does not settle which route governs: Schedule 3 prints no row for raw opium or medicinal opium by name, only for the opium poppy or coca leaf and for prepared opium. The text does not say whether the opium poppy rows reach raw opium, which is the coagulated juice of the capsules, and it does not say whether section 39(2) governs medicinal opium or raw opium. Section 39(2) (printed page 21) applies to “each offence for which no penalty is otherwise prescribed”: on conviction by the High Court sitting with assessors, “a fine of $4,000 and to imprisonment for 10 years”, or on summary conviction, “a fine not exceeding $1,000 and to imprisonment for 5 years”, with forfeiture. Customs: item 7 of the list of prohibited imports in Schedule 2 to the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act, Cap. 26.04 (printed page 145) reads “Prepared opium and pipes or other utensils for use in connection with the smoking of opium or the preparation of opium for smoking.” Section 35(1) of the Dangerous Drugs Act (printed page 19) deems articles whose importation that Act prohibits to be goods prohibited under the Customs Act. Section 35(2) (printed page 19) provides: “If any goods the exportation of which is prohibited or restricted by this Act are exported in contravention thereof, or brought to a wharf or other place to be shipped in any conveyance, the exporter or his agent shall be liable for each offence to forfeit either treble the value of the goods or $200, at the option of the Customs Officer.” The text does not say how that liability relates to section 39(2) or to Schedule 3. Item 14 of the list of prohibited imports in Schedule 2 to that Act (printed page 146) reads “Goods the importation of which is prohibited by any other law in force in Tuvalu.” and item 9 of the list of restricted imports (printed page 147) reads “Goods the importation of which is regulated by any other law in force in Tuvalu except in accordance with such law.” For goods prohibited under its section 78, the Customs Act provides these routes. Section 212(1)(a) and (3) (printed pages 108 and 109) sets a fine not exceeding $2,000 for importing them, and section 212(1)(c) and (2) makes a person knowingly concerned in such an importation liable, for an individual, to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or both. Section 215 (printed page 110) covers knowing possession or custody of prohibited imports: for an individual a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or both, and for a body corporate a fine not exceeding $10,000, or a fine of 3 times the value of the goods, whichever is the lesser. Section 216 (printed page 110) covers knowing purchase, sale, exchange or other acquisition or disposal: for an individual a fine not exceeding $5,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or both, and for a body corporate a fine not exceeding $50,000, or 3 times the value, whichever is the lesser. The text read does not say whether these Customs Act penalties apply to opium alongside section 39(2). The text read does not say how those Customs penalties relate to Schedule 3. Maximum: the highest penalty the Act text provides is life imprisonment for selling or trafficking in more than 10 grams of prepared opium, and no provision read provides a death penalty. Tuvalu's general law on capital punishment was not checked.
If prescribed / medical: The medical route, as the text shows it, differs by form. Medicinal opium is a Part IV drug. Section 20 excuses possession that the person proves was obtained “in accordance with the prescription of a person whose name appears in the said Medical and Dental Register”, and section 15(1)(c) (printed page 13) empowers the Minister to make rules “regulating the issue by medical practitioners of prescriptions containing any such dangerous drug and the dispensing of any such prescription”. No rules under section 15 are in the text read, and the legislation site's index of laws, as fetched on 7 October 2026, lists none beneath the Act. Paragraph 11 of Part II of Schedule 2 covers low strength compounded preparations of medicinal opium or morphine. Under section 30, a preparation within Part II of Schedule 2 is outside section 14 and sections 16 to 29, including the section 20 possession offence. Section 14A, inserted by section 6 of Act 9 of 2025 (printed page 6), reads “The Minister may issue licenses for the importation, exportation, manufacture, cultivation, sale, or use of dangerous drugs for medical and scientific purposes.” It is worded for dangerous drugs generally, and the text does not say whether it reaches raw opium under Part II or prepared opium under Part III, neither of which has a medical exception of its own. Section 42 of the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32 (printed page 28) provides: “If a therapeutic product is also a dangerous drug under the Dangerous Drugs Act, the prohibitions, conditions, and requirements in this Act are in addition to those contained in or imposed under the Dangerous drugs Act.” Section 9 of that Act (printed page 13) requires a Tuvalu Medicines Schedule whose classes include “prescription medicines”, “dangerous drugs” and “prohibited substances”. That Schedule was searched for on three routes and no copy was found, so how it classes any opium product is shown by no text read.
Documentation: Instruments read on 7 October 2026 from the Tuvalu government's own legislation site: the Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition (36 pages; sections 1 to 42 and Schedule 2); the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025, Act 9 of 2025 (9 pages, including Schedule 3); section 9 and section 42 of the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32, 2022 Revised Edition; and section 78, sections 212 to 216 and Schedule 2 of the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act 2014, Cap. 26.04, 2022 Revised Edition. Part II, Part III and Part IV of the Dangerous Drugs Act were read in full, and the Customs Act text was searched for opium, morphine, heroin, narcotic and dangerous drug and names only prepared opium. The endnotes (printed pages 35 and 36) print amendment by Act 4 of 2009 (commencement 6 July 2009) and no later amendment, and the legislation site's index of laws lists Act 9 of 2025 as the amending Act beneath the Dangerous Drugs Act; no other amendment since 1 January 2023 was found. The 2022 Revised Edition does not incorporate Act 9 of 2025, so the two are read together, and the amendment replaces section 5, amends section 8(b), replaces section 12(1)(a) and inserts section 14A and Schedule 3. Commencement: Act 9 of 2025 section 1(2) reads “This Act shall come into force on the date of publication.” The Act commenced on the date of its publication under its section 1(2); the PDF prints no calendar date for that publication, so none is given. Medicines Schedule outcome: the Tuvalu Medicines Schedule under section 9 of the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act was searched for on the legislation site, on Ministry of Health and government hosts, and in WHO and Pacific health sources, and no copy was found. This entry rests on the Dangerous Drugs Act and its 2025 amendment. Tuvalu’s Penal Code was not read. The printed pages of the Dangerous Drugs Act carry only the words “2022 Revised Edition” and no consolidation date. The legislation site’s home page, https://www.tuvalu-legislation.tv/cms/, read on 7 October 2026, states that the Laws of Tuvalu are in force as at 31st December 2022.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 22, 27, 30, 35 and 39 and Schedule 2 Parts I and II, printed pages 7 to 22 and 32 to 36, read on 7 October 2026 (pdftotext over the official PDF, sha256 c9e514235adcb847c794d886eb122ee2962045e6ea0e7c9ccaba18526a1cd53e) · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025, Act 9 of 2025, sections 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 and Schedule 3, printed pages 5 to 9, read on 7 October 2026 (sha256 36ac0ea5a9d1955f1967d00431c2a9e3cd94947e715f3881270ec4f2756863e6) · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 9 and 42, printed pages 13 and 28, read on 7 October 2026 (sha256 625b92971e321cb4409bfbe2ce561a8674fa3a7e489afc00254a22e139dd3021) · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act 2014, Cap. 26.04, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 78, 212, 215 and 216 and Schedule 2 items 7 and 14 of the list of prohibited imports and item 9 of the list of restricted imports, printed pages 47, 108 to 110 and 145 to 147, read on 7 October 2026 (sha256 b1747fd3511bcd3111d35f699933d9de68137065643d8bcf6f09d79b4778fbc0) · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Tuvalu Legislation On-line home page, read on 7 October 2026 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Updated October 7, 2026

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Controlled in Tuvalu as a named dangerous drug under Part IV of the Dangerous Drugs Act. Oxycodone is entered by name at paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition (page 33), as “Oxycodone.”, and section 13(1) provides: “The provisions of this Part shall apply to the substances for the time being specified in Part I of Schedule 2.” Oxymorphone is a separate entry in the same list and is not the entry relied on here. Paragraph 2 adds esters and ethers of a paragraph 1 substance, paragraph 3 adds “Any salt of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 or 2 above”, and paragraph 8 adds “Any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 above”. Oxycodone is not among the substances listed in Part II paragraph 9(2), and paragraphs 10 to 14 of Part II concern cocaine, opium and morphine preparations, diphenoxylate, a compound ipecacuanha and opium powder, and mixtures of those preparations only, so no preparation exception is printed for oxycodone. The Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025 (Act 9 of 2025) does not amend Schedule 2. The model is a schedule printed in the Act, with a power in section 13(2) for the Minister to modify Schedule 2 by order. No order is printed in the 2022 Revised Edition and none appears beneath the Act on the legislation site's index, as read on 7 October 2026.
Consequences if caught: Possession: section 20 (page 14) makes it an offence for a Part IV drug to be “found in the possession of any person or kept in any place other than the appointed store” unless the person “can prove” that it was obtained under the authority of the Act, “in accordance with the prescription of a person whose name appears in the said Medical and Dental Register”, or “from a person having authority to sell it”, or was deposited there without knowledge or consent. The burden of proof is on the person found with the drug. The text prints no quantity threshold, no presumption of supply and no separate offence of possession for supply. Sale, use, manufacture: section 5(1) as replaced by Act 9 of 2025 (page 5) reads “No person shall import, export, manufacture, cultivate, sell, or use any dangerous drug except with a license issued under section 14A.” It does not name possession. Trafficking: the word appears only in section 8(b) and section 12(1)(a) as amended by Act 9 of 2025, which concern Part II substances and prepared opium, and in the headings of Schedule 3 to that Act, and no trafficking offence is printed for a Part IV drug. Import and export: section 14 (page 12) provides “No person shall import or export any substance to which this Part applies, except in accordance with sections 21 to 29”; section 22 requires a valid export authorisation and section 27 a valid import authorisation, and no excepted preparation takes any oxycodone product outside those sections. Section 30 (printed page 16) provides: “The provisions of sections 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 shall not apply to any preparation or other substance for the time being falling within Part II of Schedule 2.” Those sections include the section 14 import and export ban, the store rules and the section 20 possession offence, so a preparation that falls within Part II of Schedule 2 is outside them. Section 15 and new section 5(1) carry no matching exception. Section 35(1) deems articles whose importation is prohibited by the Act to be prohibited goods under the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act. That Act provides three routes for goods prohibited under its section 78. Section 212(1)(a) (printed page 108) makes it an offence to import such goods, with a fine not exceeding $2,000 under section 212(3) (printed page 109). Section 215 (printed page 110), on knowing possession or custody of prohibited imports, carries for an individual a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or both, and for a body corporate a fine not exceeding $10,000, or a fine of 3 times the value of the goods, whichever is the lesser. Section 216 (printed page 110), on knowing purchase, sale, exchange or other acquisition or disposal, carries for an individual a fine not exceeding $5,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or both, and for a body corporate a fine not exceeding $50,000, or 3 times the value of the goods, whichever is the lesser. Item 14 of the list of prohibited imports (printed page 146) reads “Goods the importation of which is prohibited by any other law in force in Tuvalu.” and item 9 of the list of restricted imports (printed page 147) reads “Goods the importation of which is regulated by any other law in force in Tuvalu except in accordance with such law.” The text read does not say whether these Customs Act penalties apply to oxycodone alongside section 39(2). The text does not say which route a given importation is charged under. Section 35(2) (printed page 19) provides: “If any goods the exportation of which is prohibited or restricted by this Act are exported in contravention thereof, or brought to a wharf or other place to be shipped in any conveyance, the exporter or his agent shall be liable for each offence to forfeit either treble the value of the goods or $200, at the option of the Customs Officer.” The text does not say how that liability relates to section 39(2) or to Schedule 3. Penalty: section 39(2) (page 21) provides for each offence “for which no penalty is otherwise prescribed”, on conviction by the High Court sitting with assessors, “a fine of $4,000 and to imprisonment for 10 years”, or on summary conviction “a fine not exceeding $1,000 and to imprisonment for 5 years”, and forfeiture of the articles in every case. The fine and the term are joined by “and”. Which penalty provision governs is a gap in the text. Section 5(2) says a person in violation of section 5 “shall be sentenced pursuant to Schedule 3”. Section 8(2), inserted by section 4 of Act 9 of 2025 (printed page 6), reads “Any person who commits an offence under this Act shall be sentenced according to Schedule 3.” Section 5(2) is worded for the conduct named in new section 5(1), which is import, export, manufacture, cultivation, sale and use, and does not name possession. The section 20 possession offence therefore reaches Schedule 3, if at all, only through section 8(2), and Schedule 3 has no row for a Part IV drug. Schedule 3 as printed in Act 9 of 2025 has bands only for Indian hemp, opium poppy or coca plant and leaf, and prepared opium, and no row for oxycodone or any other substance in Part I of Schedule 2. The text does not say whether a Part IV offence is sentenced under section 39(2) or has no Schedule 3 band. A second gap is scope: section 5 replaced a section that stood in Part II, which section 4(1) confines to raw opium, coca leaf and Indian hemp, while new section 5(1) speaks of “any dangerous drug”. The amending Act does not say whether Part IV substances were meant. Cultivation: oxycodone is a substance, not a plant, and no cultivation row exists for it. Administrative: section 16(2) requires any person in possession of a Part IV drug to keep a stock book, and section 39(3) (page 21) provides that “no person, on conviction for any offence of contravening or failing to comply with any rules made under this Act, relating to the keeping of books, or the issuing or dispensing of prescriptions containing drugs to which this Act applies, shall be sentenced to imprisonment without the option of a fine, or to pay a fine exceeding $100”, if the court is satisfied that the offence was committed through inadvertence and was not preparatory to, or committed in connection with, any other offence against this Act. Capital exposure: nothing in the Act or Act 9 of 2025 provides a penalty of death. The largest figures printed are in section 39(2) for this substance. Tuvalu's general law on capital punishment was not checked.
If prescribed / medical: The text of the Act reaches oxycodone as a Part IV drug and prints no prescription route for it. Section 15(1)(c) lets the Minister make rules “regulating the issue by medical practitioners of prescriptions containing any such dangerous drug and the dispensing of any such prescription”, and section 15(2) requires those rules to authorise a pharmaceutical chemist and druggist to retail, dispense or compound. Section 19 allows withdrawal from the appointed store only to a person on the Medical and Dental Register, a registered pharmacist or a qualified veterinary surgeon. Section 14A, inserted by Act 9 of 2025, lets the Minister license importation, exportation, manufacture, cultivation, sale or use of dangerous drugs “for medical and scientific purposes”, on application in Form G. No rules under section 15 appear in the Act's text or beneath it on the legislation site's index as read on 7 October 2026. The Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32 (2022 Revised Edition), defines “dangerous drug” by reference to section 2 of the Dangerous Drugs Act (section 4, page 7), lists “dangerous drugs” as a class of the Tuvalu Medicines Schedule (section 9(2)(g), page 13), and provides in section 42 (page 28) that its prohibitions and conditions are in addition to those under the Dangerous Drugs Act. The Tuvalu Medicines Schedule itself was not located, so whether an oxycodone product is classed there as a prescription medicine, a dangerous drug or something else is not established by any text read. The text also does not say whether a prescription satisfies the section 5(1) bar on “use” without a section 14A license.
Documentation: Searched: the Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition, 36 pages, and Act 9 of 2025, 9 pages, both read in full, for “oxycodone”, “oxicodone” and “oxymorphone”. Oxycodone appears once, in Schedule 2 Part I paragraph 1, and oxymorphone once, as its own entry. Act 9 of 2025, the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act and the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act were each searched for “oxycodone” and carry none. The printed pages of the Dangerous Drugs Act carry only the words “2022 Revised Edition” and no consolidation date. The legislation site's home page, https://www.tuvalu-legislation.tv/cms/, read on 7 October 2026, states that the Laws of Tuvalu are in force as at 31st December 2022. The Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act (sections 4, 9 and 42) and the Customs Act (Schedule 2, sections 78, 212, 215 and 216) were read for the provisions cited. Schedule 2 of the Customs Act, as printed, has no entry naming oxycodone, and its prohibited item 14 (printed page 146) covers “Goods the importation of which is prohibited by any other law in force in Tuvalu.” and its restricted item 9 (printed page 147) covers “Goods the importation of which is regulated by any other law in force in Tuvalu except in accordance with such law.” Tuvalu Medicines Schedule: searched on three routes, the legislation site's subsidiary legislation, notices and gazette indexes, Ministry of Health and government hostnames with web searches, and WHO and Pacific health sources, and no copy was located. Commencement of Act 9 of 2025: it commenced on the date of its publication under its section 1(2), which reads “This Act shall come into force on the date of publication”. The publication date is not printed in the Act and no commencement date is stated here. The Act contains no provision for a personal or traveller allowance for a Part IV drug, and a prescription is a matter of proof under section 20. Import authorisations are issued by the Senior Medical Officer under section 25. This entry rests on the Dangerous Drugs Act and its 2025 amendment. Tuvalu's Penal Code was not read.

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PCP

Legal status: Controlled under Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions, trafficking carries imprisonment plus a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: PCP is controlled in Tuvalu under Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions. In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same provisions, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Controlled under Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions, trafficking carries imprisonment plus a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Psilocybin is controlled in Tuvalu under Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions. In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same provisions, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Tuvalu Penal Code / drug-control provisions · paclii.org · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated June 28, 2026

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Tobacco

Legal status: Lawful and regulated in Tuvalu, with sale and import controlled and sale to people under 18 prohibited, and not a dangerous drug under the Dangerous Drugs Act. Section 3 of the Tobacco Control Act (Cap. 28.14, 2022 Revised Edition, printed commencement 30 December 2008) defines “Tobacco product” as “any product containing tobacco in any form, in an amount that is more than an incidental ingredient or component, and that is intended for human consumption”, and adds that “The term tobacco product includes raw tobacco that has not been processed or prepared for consumption” (pages 8 and 9). Tobacco is named in that Act and regulated by it. Under the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition) the state is not reached: a search of the text of that Act and of the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025 for tobacco, nicotine and cigarette returned nothing, Part I of Schedule 2 to the Act does not list it, and Part II of the Act applies only to raw opium, coca leaf and Indian hemp. That absence is stated as at the 2022 Revised Edition as amended by the 2025 Act. Section 11 of the Tobacco Control Act prohibits sale to and purchase by people under 18 (page 13). Item 8 of the restricted imports in Schedule 2 to the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act 2014 covers “Tobacco extracts, essences or other concentrations of tobacco, or any admixture thereof, tobacco stalks and tobacco stalk flour” (page 147), which is narrower than tobacco products generally.
Consequences if caught: Under 18. Section 11(1) says “A person under 18 years of age must not sell or buy tobacco products”, section 11(2) says “No person may sell a tobacco product to a person younger than 18 years of age”, and section 11(6) says “No person shall supply a tobacco product to a person under 18 years of age, whether in exchange for payment or not” and adds that a person under 18 “is prohibited from consuming any tobacco product”. Under section 11(7) every person who fails to comply with the section commits an offence and is liable, in the case of an individual, to a fine not exceeding $150, and in the case of a body corporate to a fine not exceeding $500. Section 11(3) requires a seller to take “reasonable precautions and exercise due diligence” to establish that a buyer is 18 or older, and section 11(4) gives a defence to the offence in subsection (1) where the purchaser presented identification showing age with no apparent reason to doubt it (page 13). Sale. Section 18A(1) makes it an offence to sell or offer for sale by retail loose cigarettes or loose tobacco, and section 18A(2) makes it an offence for a manufacturer, importer, distributor, individual or retailer who “imports or sells” cigarettes in a package that contains fewer than 20 cigarettes, or tobacco in a package that contains less than 30 grams, in each case with a fine not exceeding $500 for an individual and $1,000 for a body corporate, and an enforcement officer may take or confiscate the products (page 17). Selling by vending machine, by mail or by an open display carries a fine not exceeding $150 for an individual and $500 for a body corporate (section 13, page 14). Possession and smoking by an adult. The Act contains no offence of possessing or using tobacco by an adult, and no term of imprisonment anywhere in it. It restricts where smoking is allowed. Section 23(5) says “No person may smoke in any area of any workplace or public place where smoking is prohibited under this Act”, section 25(3) bars smoking in an indoor or enclosed area of a restaurant, section 26(3) in an indoor or enclosed area of licensed premises, section 29(1) in an indoor or enclosed area of a public transport vehicle, and section 30(1) in an aircraft carrying members of the public on a journey beginning or ending in Tuvalu. For an individual the fine is not exceeding $150 (sections 25(4), 26(4) and 30(2), pages 20 and 22). As printed, the offence provision in section 29(3) refers to subsection 2 of that section and not to subsection 1. Section 36 adds removal from the premises and confiscation and forfeiture of tobacco smoked in violation, treats each day of a continuing violation as a separate offence, and provides that compounded penalties “shall be assessed for repeat violations” (the removal and confiscation provisions are on page 25, and the continuing violation and compounded penalties provisions are on page 26). Import, export and manufacture. Section 39(1) says “No manufacturer, importer, distributor or person, partnership, corporation or other entity shall manufacture, import, produce or distribute tobacco products without first obtaining a Tobacco control, manufacture or importation licence”, and section 39(4) sets a fine not exceeding $500 for an individual and $1,000 for a body corporate for operating without a licence (page 28). Section 3 defines “Importer” as a person who brings tobacco products or raw tobacco into Tuvalu “for the purpose of sale or distribution”. Sections 20(1), 21(1) and 22(2) bar any person from importing or exporting a tobacco product whose package lacks the prescribed disclosure or package insert, or that displays words prescribed as misleading, with a fine not exceeding $300 for an individual and $1,000 for a body corporate (pages 18 and 19). Item 8 of the Customs restricted imports allows tobacco extracts, essences, concentrations, stalks and stalk flour “except under such conditions as the Customs Officer, with the approval of the Minister may either generally or in any particular case allow” (page 147). Duty and personal import allowances were not read. Cultivation and the maximum. The text has no offence of growing tobacco, and section 33(1)(e) names growing only among the activities about which an Enforcement Officer may question a person. The highest fine for an individual in the sections read is $500, at sections 18A and 39(4). The Act contains no death penalty, and Tuvalu’s general law on capital punishment was not checked.
If prescribed / medical: The Tobacco Control Act contains no prescription provision, and its uses of the word prescribed refer to matters set by regulations. The entry covers tobacco products, their sale, their import and the restrictions on smoking only, as a scope boundary, and no nicotine medicine is covered. The Tuvalu Medicines Schedule, which section 9 of the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act requires, was searched for on three routes and not found, so whether any nicotine product is classified under it is not established.
Documentation: Read in full: the Tobacco Control Act, Cap. 28.14, 2022 Revised Edition (29 pages, printed commencement 30 December 2008). The printed pages of the Tobacco Control Act carry only the words “2022 Revised Edition” and no consolidation date. The legislation site’s home page, https://www.tuvalu-legislation.tv/cms/, read on 7 October 2026, states that the Laws of Tuvalu are in force as at 31st December 2022. Endnote 1 on page 29 records Act 8 of 2008 as amended by Act 4 of 2017 (commencement 11 April 2017), and endnote 2 records that the Act is in force on publication, except that sections 25 and 26B, renumbered 26 in this edition, came into force on 1 June 2009. Also read: item 8 of the restricted imports in Schedule 2 of the Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act 2014, Cap. 26.04, 2022 Revised Edition (the PDF prints “Customers”), at page 147. The Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition, and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025, Act 9 of 2025, were searched for tobacco, nicotine and cigarette and returned nothing. The 2025 Act says in section 1(2) “This Act shall come into force on the date of publication”, so it commenced on the date of its publication; the text gives no date and none is stated. The tuvalu-legislation.tv all-legislation index page, read on 7 October 2026 (sha256 f1a30168fc3e2cb5944e6849a1de4afc5ceffddaa6b71bed2cf522c86d0c3070), lists no amending Act and no regulations beneath the Tobacco Control Act, so whether the regulations that sections 20 to 22 and 38 refer to exist, or any amendment after the 2022 Revised Edition, is not established. The Tuvalu Medicines Schedule was searched for on 7 October 2026 on three routes: the tuvalu-legislation.tv legislation, subsidiary legislation, notices and gazette pages; the government and Ministry of Health websites, where the hostnames tried returned no connection; and WHO and Pacific health sources. It was not found. Amounts are printed with a dollar sign and no currency name. No Tuvalu court decision or enforcement practice was read.

Tobacco Control Act, Cap. 28.14, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 3, 11, 13, 18A, 20 to 23, 25, 26, 29, 30, 33, 36 and 39 and endnotes, pages 5 to 29, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 85de7d1bca955b04b71cfafc279535d939beff1a5db194c7d68e70fcf2c7e37e · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Customs Revenue and Border Protection Act 2014, Cap. 26.04, 2022 Revised Edition, Schedule 2 list of restricted imports item 8, page 147, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 b1747fd3511bcd3111d35f699933d9de68137065643d8bcf6f09d79b4778fbc0 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 10.10, 2022 Revised Edition, sections 2, 4 and 13 and Schedule 2, searched in full, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 c9e514235adcb847c794d886eb122ee2962045e6ea0e7c9ccaba18526a1cd53e · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2025, Act 9 of 2025, searched in full, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 36ac0ea5a9d1955f1967d00431c2a9e3cd94947e715f3881270ec4f2756863e6 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Pharmacy and Therapeutic Products Act, Cap. 28.32, 2022 Revised Edition, section 9 page 13, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 625b92971e321cb4409bfbe2ce561a8674fa3a7e489afc00254a22e139dd3021 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · tuvalu-legislation.tv all-legislation index page, read on 7 October 2026, sha256 f1a30168fc3e2cb5944e6849a1de4afc5ceffddaa6b71bed2cf522c86d0c3070 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Tuvalu Legislation On-line home page, read on 7 October 2026 · tuvalu-legislation.tv · Updated October 7, 2026

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Not individually verified

65 substances are not individually verified for Tuvalu

For these the governing national drug law is cited, but we have not verified that the substance specifically is scheduled under it. Treat them as unanswered, not as legal. Confirm with Tuvalu’s drug authority or your embassy.

Substance	What we found
1P-LSD	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
2-FDCK	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
25I-NBOMe	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
2C-E	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
2C-I	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
2C-T-7	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
3-MMC	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
4-AcO-DMT	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
4-HO-MET	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
6-APB	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Adderall	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Amanita muscaria	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Amphetamine	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Amyl Nitrite	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Ayahuasca	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Barbiturates	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Buprenorphine	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Caffeine	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Cannabinol	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Cathinone	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
CBD	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Clonazepam	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Delta-8-THC	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Diazepam	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
DOM	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
DXM	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Ephedrine	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Etizolam	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Gabapentin	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
GBL	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
HHC	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Ketamine	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Khat	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Kratom	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Lorazepam	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
LSA (Morning Glory)	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
MDA	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
MDPV	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Memantine	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Mephedrone (4-MMC)	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Methaqualone (Quaaludes)	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Methylone	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Methylphenidate	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Mitragynine	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Modafinil	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
MXE	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Nicotine	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Nimetazepam	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Nitrous Oxide	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Peyote	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Phenibut	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Pink Cocaine / Tusi	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Poppers	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Pregabalin	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Quetiapine	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Salvia divinorum	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
THC-P	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Tramadol	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Xanax (Alprazolam)	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Xylazine	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...
Zolpidem	Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific...

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