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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1992
DRUG AMENDMENT BILL TO COMPLY WITH BILL OF RIGHTS INTRODUCED
ORDINANCE
ΤΟ WAS
A BILL WHICH SOUGHT TO AMEND THE DANGEROUS DRUGS ENSURE ITS COMPLIANCE WITH THE BILL OF RIGHTS ORDINANCE INTRODUCED INTO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY),
DRUGS (AMENDMENT) ALISTAIR ASPREY,
RESPONSE TO
AN
MR SECURITY,
IN REVIEWED
DANGEROUS MOVING THE SECOND READING OF THE (NO. 2) BILL. 1992, THE SECRETARY FOR EXPLAINED THAT THE ORDINANCE HAD APPEAL COURT RULING IN SEPTEMBER LAST YEAR.
BEEN
IN PRESUMPTIONS
SECTIONS
THE COURT OF APPEAL RULED THAT SOME 46 AND 47 WERE INCONSISTENT WITH THE BILL OF RIGHTS ORDINANCE AND, CONSEQUENCE, HAD BEEN REPEALED.
IN
THAT ANY SECTION 46 OF THE DANGEROUS DRUGS ORDINANCE PROVIDES
MORE THAN A PERSON FOUND IN POSSESSION OF
SPECIFIED AMOUNT OF A DANGEROUS DRUG IS PRESUMED TO HAVE BEEN IN POSSESSION OF THE DRUG THE PURPOSE OF TRAFFICKING.
FOR
PRESUMPTIONS
OF
UNDER
CERTAIN SPECIFIED
SECTION +7 OF THE ORDINANCE PROVIDES POSSESSION AND KNOWLEDGE OF DANGEROUS DRUGS CONDITIONS,
WITH THE
WHILE ENSURING THAT THE ORDINANCE COMPLIED
BILL OF GOVERNMENT WOULD MAINTAIN ITS RIGHTS ORDINANCE, MR ASPREY SAID THE ABILITY TO BRING SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTIONS FOR DRUG OFFENCES.
AMEND
PROVISIONS
WHICH
WERE
ORDINANCE,
TO VULNERABLE
AND SIMILAR
ΤΟ
RIGHTS
"THE BILL PROPOSES TO DELETE OR RULED TO BE INCONSISTENT WITH THE BILL OF DELETE OR AMEND OTHER PROVISIONS WHICH MAY BE CHALLENGES, HE SAID,
TH
SPECIFICALLY, THE BILL SEEKS:
* TO REMOVE THE SEPARATE OFFENCE
DRUGS FOR THE PURPOSTS OF INLAWFUL TRAFFICKING AND TO INCLUDE IT AS A TRAFFICKING OFFENCE;
OF POSSESSION OF
DANGEROUS
ON
1 AND
FINE OF
$1
* TO INCREASE THE MAXIMUM PENALTIES FOR POSSESSION OFFENCES
INDICTMENT TO SEVEN YEARS' IMPRISONMENT MILLION;
* TO AMEND
AND REPEAL INCOMPATIBLE PRESUMPTIONS CONCERNING MANUFACTURING, PRESCRIBED INIMUM AMOUNTS AND DIVANS; AND
* TO LIMIT THE SCOPE OF THE FRESUMPTION
OF DANGEROUS DRUGS.
CONCERNING
POSSESSION
DEBATE ON THE BILL WAS ADJOURNED,
0
-
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