SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 28Increase in penalties for drug-related offences
Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (c. 38)
1
1
Schedule 4 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (prosecution and punishment of offences) is amended as follows.
2
In column 6 of that Schedule (punishments for offences under that Act committed in relation to Class C drugs), in each of the following entries, for “5 years” there is substituted “
14 years
”
.
3
Those entries are the entries relating to the punishment, on conviction on indictment, of offences under the following provisions of that Act—
a
section 4(2) (production, or being concerned in the production, of a controlled drug),
b
section 4(3) (supplying or offering to supply a controlled drug or being concerned in the doing of either activity by another),
c
section 5(3) (having possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply it to another),
d
section 8 (being the occupier, or concerned in the management, of premises and permitting or suffering certain activities to take place there),
e
section 12(6) (contravention of direction prohibiting practitioner etc from possessing, supplying etc controlled drugs), and
f
section 13(3) (contravention of direction prohibiting practitioner etc from prescribing, supplying etc controlled drugs).
Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (c. 2)
2
In Schedule 1 to the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (controlled drugs: variation of punishments for certain offences under that Act), in paragraph 2(c)
(punishment on conviction on indictment of offences under that Act committed in relation to Class C drugs), for “5 years” there is substituted “
14 years
”
.
Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 (c. 5)
3
In section 19 of the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 (ships used for illicit traffic), in subsection (4)(c)(ii)
(punishment on conviction on indictment of offences under that section committed in relation to Class C drugs), for “five years” there is substituted “
fourteen years
”
.