Drugs Ruling: Law-making powers are restricted to Oireachtas

In what the Court of Appeal said was a “constitutional issue of far-reaching importance”, the three-judge court unanimously said a regulation making illegal the possession of a stimulant called methylethcathinone was invalid.
The court said Section 2 (2) of the 1977 Misuse of Drugs Act, under which the regulation was introduced, was unconstitutional because it purports to vest in the Government law-making powers which are in the exclusive authority of the Oireachtas.