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A.D. 1923.
Amendment
of s. 13 of
Dangerou Drugs Act, 1920.
Dangerous Drugs and Poisons [13 & 14 GEO. 5.]
(Amendment).
provisions of any corresponding law in force in that place, is in the possession or under the control of any person in any premises, he may grant a search warrant authorising any constable named in the warrant, at any time or times within one month 5 from the date of the warrant, to enter, if need be by force, the premises named in the warrant, and to search the premises and any persons found therein, and, if there is reasonable ground for suspecting that an offence against this Act has been committed 10 in relation to any such drugs which may be found in the premises or in the possession of any such persons, or that any document which may be so found is such a document as aforesaid, to seize and detain those drugs or that document, as the case 15 may be."
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(2) The words any books or documents" shall be substituted for the words "any books" in subsection (1) of the said section ten, and the words, any such books, stocks, drugs, or documents" shall be substituted for the 20 words "any such books or stocks" in subsection (2) of that section.
2. (1) The following subsections shall be substituted for subsections (1) and (2) of section thirteen of the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1920: -
"(1) Any person-
(a) who acts in contravention of or fails to comply with any regulation made under this Act; or
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(3) who acts in contravention of or fails to 30
comply with the conditions of any licence issued or authority granted under or in pursuance of this Act; or
(c) who for the purpose of obtaining, whether
for himself or for any other person, the 35 issue, grant or renewal of any such licence or authority as aforesaid, makes any declaration or statement which is false in any particular, or knowingly utters, produces or makes use of any such dec- 40 laration or statement or any document containing the same; or
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(d) who in Great Britain aids, abets, counsels A.D. 1923.
or procures the commission in any place outside Great Britain of any offence punishable under the provisions of any corresponding law in force in that place, or does any act preparatory to or in furtherance of any act which if committed in Great Britain would constitute an offence against this Act;
shall be guilty of an offence against this Act."
"(2) Every person guilty of an offence against this Act shall in respect of each offence be liable -- (a) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding one thousand pounds, or to penal servitude for a period not exceeding ten years, or to both such fine and penal servitude; or
(b) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty pounds, or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding twelve months, or to both such fine and imprison- ment;
and shall in every case on conviction for the offence forfeit to His Majesty all articles in respect of which the offence was committed, and the court before which the offender was convicted may order any forfeited articles to be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as the court thinks fit."
One half of the amount of any fine imposed by a court of summary jurisdiction in pursuance of this section in proceedings taken by the direction of a Secretary of State or by, or by the direction of, the Director of Public Prosecutions shall, notwithstanding anything in any other enact- ment, be paid into the Exchequer in such manner as the Treasury may from time to time direct.
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(2A) Subject as hereinafter provided, no person shall in England or Wales be proceeded against by indictment for an offence under this Act unless the proceedings are instituted by or with the consent of the Attorney-General or by the Director
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