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HONG KONG

LEGAL REPORT

Enclosure No. 2

THE DANGEROUS DRUGS (AMENDMENT)

ORDINANCE 1987

(No. 24 of 1987)

Ordinance

(a)

(b)

(c)

2.

This Ordinance amends the Dangerous Drugs

to extend the presumption as to trafficking under section 46 to possession of a specified quantity of any form of four dangerous drugs, namely, cocaine, amphetamine, methaqualone and quinalbarbitone;

to amend section 48(2) to make it clear that a person found in or escaping from a divan is presumed not only to have been smoking, inhaling, ingesting or injecting a drug there, but also to have known the nature of that drug; and

a

to provide that, in certain circumstances, court is not obliged by section 54A to consider a drug addiction treatment centre report before imposing a custodial sentence on a person convicted under section 8 or 36.

Before the Governor assented to the Bill in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, the Attorney General advised that he could properly do so.

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Law Draftsman.

|| June 1987.

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

HONG KONG.