10
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1992
THAT
KEN
EXPLAINED
A RESULT OF THE PRESUMPTIONS IN BY THE BILL OF RIGHTS
CERTAIN
THE COMMISSIONER FOR NARCOTICS, MR
WOODHOUSE, THAT AMENDMENTS TO THE TWO ORDINANCES WERE NECESSARY AS AN APPEAL COURT RULING LAST YEAR DANGEROUS DRUGS ORDINANCE HAD BEEN REPEALED ORDINANCE.
THAT IT WOULD "THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE APPEAL COURT RULING IS
TO BRING SUCCESSFUL BE MORE DIFFICULT
PROSECUTIONS FOR DANGEROUS DRUGS OFFENCES, UNLESS WE MAKE THESE AMENDMENTS", MR WOODHOUSE SAID.
THE
NARCOTICS DIVISION, IN
WITH CONSULTATION
THE POLICE, ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS, THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE DEPARTMENT, THE
THE THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND THE GOVERNMENT CHEMIST, HAD REVIEWED LEGISLATION WITH A VIEW ΤΟ LIMITING THE DAMAGE DONE TO DRUG KONG CONTINUED ΤΟ ENFORCEMENT OPERATIONS, WHILST ENSURING THAT HONG MEET ITS INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS.
"WE PROPOSE TO DELETE OR AMEND THE PROVISIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN PROVISIONS REPEALED BY THE BILL OF RIGHTS ORDINANCE, AS WELL AS OTHER
VULNERABLE MIGHT ALSO BE
WHICH FUTURE,
HE ADDED.
ΤΟ
OF BILL
RIGHTS CHALLENGES IN
THE DANGEROUS DRUGS (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2) BILL 1992 SEEKS TO
OF
REMOVE THE SEPARATE OFFENCE OF POSSESSION
DANGEROUS DRUGS FOR THE PURPOSES OF UNLAWFUL TRAFFICKING AND INCLUDE THIS OFFENCE AS A TRAFFICKING OFFENCE;
MAXIMUM
PENALTIES FOR POSSESSION
IMPRISONMENT AND
A
OFFENCES ON FINE
OF
$1
INCREASE THE INDICTMENT TO SEVEN YEARS' MILLION;
AMEND AND REPEAL INCOMPATIBLE PRESUMPTIONS CONCERNING
THE MANUFACTURING,
PRESCRIBED MINIMUM AMOUNTS OF DRUGS FOR THE PURPOSE OF UNLAWFUL TRAFFICKING AND DIVANS; AND
WHERE THE LIMIT PRESUMPTIONS TO CERTAIN PARTICULAR SITUATIONS PRESUMPTIONS WILL ONLY ARISE IF A PERSON HAS
HIS IN
PHYSICAL OR A DRUG,
THE POSSESSION A THING CONTAINING SUCH
KEYS OF CERTAIN TYPES OF CONTAINERS OR A MOTOR VEHICLE CONTAINING SUCH A DRUG.
MR
EXPLAINED WOODHOUSE
HAD
THE IN
MAXIMUM BEEN INTRODUCED
THAT THE INCREASE PENALTIES FOR POSSESSION OFFENCES ON INDICTMENT TO DEAL WITH THOSE IN POSSESSION OF LARGE QUANTITIES OF DRUGS.
OF
WOULD REMAIN UNCHANGED,
OF HE SAID THE PENALTIES FOR POSSESSION DRUGS, USUALLY FOR AN ADDICT'S PERSONAL USE, AT A MAXIMUM OF THREE-YEARS' IMPRISONMENT AND A FINE OF $10,000.
SMALL
QUANTITIES
TT
"OUR POLICY IS TO ENCOURAGE DRUG ABUSERS ΤΟ THEREFORE, THE PENALTIES FOR POSSESSION OF SMALL QUANTITIES BEEN REVISED, HE SAID.
SEEK
TREATMENT.
HAVE NOT
/HE SAID