Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 2006

 

Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 2006

CONTENTS

1.           Short title                                                                         1

2.           Commencement                                                               1

3.           The Act amended                                                             2

4.           Section 32A amended                                                       2

 

 

 

 

Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 2006

No. 40 of 2006

An Act to amend the Misuse of Drugs Act 1981.

 

[Assented to 22 September 2006]

 

 

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

1.           Short title

             This is the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 2006.

2.           Commencement

             This Act comes into operation on a day fixed by proclamation.

3.           The Act amended

             The amendments in this Act are to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1981*.

              [* Reprint 3 as at 1 July 2005.]

4.           Section 32A amended

             Section 32A(3) is amended in the definition of “external serious drug offence” as follows:

                 (a)    in paragraph (a) after “law of” by inserting —

                         “ the Commonwealth, of ”;

                 (b)    by deleting paragraph (b) and inserting instead —

        (b)    offence against —

     (i)    the repealed section 233B of the Customs Act 1901 of the Commonwealth; or

     (ii)    a law of the Commonwealth, which offence is prescribed to correspond to an offence against that repealed section;

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