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CONFIDENTIAL

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Single Convention on Narcotic Dri

February 1966 Amendment to Schedule 1 of the

1961 Convention

บ

1966 Amendment to Schedule

1961 Convention

1.d

the

1967 Amendment to Schedule

T T

I to the 1961 Convention

1972 Protocol amending the 1961 Convention

tem

applied

The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs 1961 was

Minor amendments Hong Kong on 26 January 1965.

Schedules I and III to the Convention, which list

substances under control, came into effect for the United

1966. The Convention was subsequently amended

ding on

the

United

Protocol which entered into force for the

Kingdom and Hong Kong on 20 July 1978. The text of

as amended (the Convention)

the Convention

is at Annex A.

4.

The IRO

=ne Convention

continued partic

Sub-group had preliminary discussions on

in early 1988, in relation to Hong Kong's

pation in the United Nations Commission on

Narcotic Drugs after 1997. On 26 May 1988 the British side

handed

over

a

paper

explaining

the Convention's main

provisions and its benefit to Hong Kong, and considering

application to the HKSAR after 1997. The British side

subsequently answered questions from the Chinese side and,

requested, provided copies Of the UK instruments

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