Immediately in force, the Act remedies the constitutional invalidity of section 63 of the principal statute, which erroneously delegated plenary legislative power to the Minister to amend the schedules. A Constitutional Court ruling handed down on 18 December 2020 gave Parliament two years to make the necessary amendments. These included changing Schedules 1 and 2 to reflect any substances added or removed by the Minister before the ruling. Schedule 1 lists substances useful for manufacturing drugs, while Schedule 2 lists dependency-producing substances.
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