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Provide
for the reclassification of cannabis; to make provision for
the roadside |
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testing of illegal drugs;
and for connected purposes. |
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Be
it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled,
and by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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Reclassification
of cannabis |
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(1) |
Schedule 2 (controlled
drugs) to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (c. 38) (which |
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specifies the drugs which
are subject to control under that Act) shall be |
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In paragraph 1(a) of Part
I (class A drugs), there shall be inserted “Cannabinol,
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except where contained
in cannabis or cannabis resin” and “Cannabinol |
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(3) |
In paragraph 1(a) of Part
II (class B drugs), there shall be inserted “Cannabis
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(4) |
In paragraph 1(a) of Part
III (class C drugs), “Cannabinol”, “Cannabinol
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derivatives” and
“Cannabis and cannabis resin” shall be deleted.
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(5) |
In paragraph 1(d) of Part
III (class C drugs), “or of cannabinol or a cannabinol
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derivative” shall
be deleted. |
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Amendment
of the Road Traffic Act 1988 |
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(1) |
The Road Traffic Act 1988
(c. 52) is amended as follows. |
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(2) |
In section 6C (preliminary
drug test), after subsection (1) insert— |
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“(1A) |
The Secretary of State
must approve a device for administering a |
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preliminary
drug test, as referred to in subsection (1)(b), within twelve
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months
of the passing of the Drugs (Reclassification and Roadside |
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Amendment
of Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 |
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(1) |
Part 1 (offences under
the Traffic Acts) of Schedule 2 (prosecution and |
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punishment of offences)
of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (c. 53) is |
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(2) |
In column 5 (disqualification)
of the the row relating to RTA section 4(1), after |
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“Obligatory”
insert “, and in respect of drugs-related offences commited
within |
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three years after a previous
conviction of an offence under RTA section 4, for a |
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minimum period of twelve
months for a first such offence and two years for |
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any subsequent such offence”.
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Short
title, commencement and extent |
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(1) |
This Act may be cited
as the Drugs (Reclassification and Roadside Testing) Act |
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(2) |
This Act comes into force
at the end of a period of three months beginning on |
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the day on which this Act
is passed. |
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(3) |
This Act does not extend
to Northern Ireland. |
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