TNAG-0081-FCO40-117-Public-Order-legislation-1968 — Page 56

A284

Ord. No. 65/67.

Amendment of section 13.

Repeal and replacement of section 17.

5.

DRUG ADDICTS TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION (AMENDMENT)

(ii) by deleting the full stop at the end and inserting the following-

"; and in case he fails to return to the centre when so required he may be retaken by the superintender or by any police officer and conveyed to and receive and detained in such centre.".

Section 13 of the principal Ordinance is amended- (a) by deleting in subsection (2) "and on such service the patient, or his parent or guardian as the case may be, shall be responsible for his removal or the removal of the patient from the centre within forty-eight hours of such service"; and

(b) by inserting the following new subsection after sub-

section (2)

6.

"(2A) A patient on whom a notice is served under subsection (2) shall leave the centre forthwith or, where a notice is served under that subsection on the parent or guardian of a patient under the age of sixteen years, the parent or guardian shall remove the patient from the centre within forty-eight hours of such service.".

Section 17 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following-

"Supplying drugs, etc. to patients. (Cap. 134.)

17. (1) Any person who, without the permission of the superintendent, sends to or brings or throws into a centre any dangerous drug to which the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance applies or any alcoholic liquor, tobacco or tool shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for two years.

(2) Any person who, without the permission of the superintendent, sends or delivers to any patient in a centre, or deposits in a centre with a view to its coming into the possession of any patient, any money, clothing, food, drink, paper, book, letter or other thing shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars.

(3) The superintendent may confiscate any thing in respect of which subsection (1) or (2) is contravened. (4) Subject to subsection (5), the superintendent, or any person authorized by the superintendent, may search any person, and the property of any person,