Part II The Vienna Convention

Supplementary

23 Application of ancillary provisions of Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.

(1)

The M1Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 shall be amended as follows.

(2)

In section 12(1) (prohibition direction on practitioner etc. in consequence of conviction) after paragraph (b) there shall be inserted—

“(c)

of an offence under section 12 or 13 of the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990;”.

(3)

In section 21 (offences by bodies corporate) after the words “any offence under this Act” there shall be inserted the words “ or Part II of the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 ”.

(4)

In section 23 (power to search and obtain evidence) after subsection (3) there shall be inserted—

“(3A)

The powers conferred by subsection (1) above shall be exercisable also for the purposes of the execution of Part II of the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990 and subsection (3) above (excluding paragraph (a)) shall apply also to offences under section 12 or 13 of that Act, taking references in those provisions to controlled drugs as references to scheduled substances within the meaning of that Part.”