SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 28Increase in penalties for drug-related offences

1Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (c. 38)

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).