MISUSE OF DRUGS (AMENDMENT No. 2) (JERSEY) LAW 2000

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A LAW     to amend further the Misuse of Drugs (Jersey) Law 1978; sanctioned by Order of Her Majesty in Council of the

 

11th day of OCTOBER 2000

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(Registered on the 20th day of October 2000)

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STATES OF JERSEY

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The 19th day of July 2000

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                THE STATES, subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law -

 

ARTICLE 1

 

                In this Law, “principal Law” means the Misuse of Drugs (Jersey) Law 1978,[1] as amended.[2]

 

ARTICLE 2

 

                For the definitions “person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business” and “pharmacist” in Article 1(1) of the principal Law[3] there shall be substituted the following definitions respectively -

 

“ ‘person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business’ shall be construed in accordance with Article 68 of the Medicines (Jersey) Law 1995;”;

“ ‘pharmacist’ means a person registered as a pharmacist under the Pharmacy, Poisons and Medicines (Jersey) Law 1952;”.

 

ARTICLE 3

 

                For Article 5B(2)(a) of the principal Law[4] there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph -

 

“(a)   the notification of -

 

(i)      the proposed exportation from the Bailiwick to any country specified in the Order; or

 

(ii)     the arranging or procuring, in the Bailiwick, of the proposed exportation from any other country to any country specified in the Order,

 

of any substance specified in Table 1 of the Fifth Schedule to this Law; and”.

 

ARTICLE 4

 

                (1)     In Article 19(1) of the principal Law,[5] the words “, other than an Order under sub-paragraph (h) or (j) of paragraph (2) of Article 11 of this Law” shall be deleted.

 

                (2)     In Article 19(2) of the principal Law,⁵ the words “, not being a licence issued under any Order made in pursuance of sub-paragraph (j) of paragraph (2) of Article 11 of this Law” shall be deleted.

 

ARTICLE 5

 

                In the Fourth Schedule to the principal Law[6] -

 

                (a)     in the first column of the entries relating to paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (4) of Article 19, for “(3) and (4)” there shall be substituted “and (3)”;

 

                (b)     after the entries (as amended by paragraph (a) of this Article) relating to paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) of Article 19 there shall be inserted (in the columns respectively indicated in the Schedule to this Law) the entries set out in the Schedule to this Law.

 

ARTICLE 6

 

                This Law may be cited as the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment No. 2) (Jersey) Law 2000 and shall come into force on the seventh day following its registration.

 

                                                                                             G.H.C. COPPOCK

 

Greffier of the States.

 

 

SCHEDULE

 

(Article 5)

 

First column	Second column	Third column	Fourth column	Fifth column	Sixth column
Article Creating Offence	General Nature of offence	Punishment
					General
“Article 19(4)	Attempting to commit or inciting or attempting to incite another to commit an offence under any provision of this Law.				The same penalty as that for the offence to which the attempt to commit or incitement or attempt to incite relates.”.