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6.
Under new section 49E, the Commissioner for
Narcotics and directors of reporting agencies are empowered
to authorize disclosure of confidential information in the
interests of bona fide research, provided that they can
do so without disclosing the identity of any drug abuser.
7.
New section 49F allows disclosure of confidential
information in certain circumstances where consent is given
by the person who is the subject of the information. Under
this new section, the authorization of the Commissioner
for Narcotics or, as the case may be, of a director of
Subsection (4) includes
a reporting agency, will be required, in addition to the
drug abuser's consent, before disclosure is made; and
subsection (2) of the section specifies what must be
contained in that authorization.
provision for the giving of consent on behalf of an abuser
who is under 19 or is suffering from mental disability.
8.
Any prosecution for an offence under the new
Part will require the consent of the Attorney General
under new section 49H.
9.
The list of reporting agencies set out in the
new Fourth Schedule to the principal Ordinance will, by
new section 491, be capable of amendment by the Secretary
for Security.
10.
The Bill has no financial or staffing implications.
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