Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 1950
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1950 c. 7 |
| Year | 1950 |
Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act , 1950
(14 & 15 Geo. 6) 7
An Act to facilitate the consolidation of enactments relating to dangerous drugs by removing limitations on the extension to Northern Ireland of certain Acts amending the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1920, repealing the corresponding Acts of the Parliament of Northern Ireland and making necessary consequential amendments; and to make, as respects dangerous drugs, certain other amendments of law which are requisite in consequence of the supersession of the League of Nations by the United Nations or expedient with a view to the consolidation of such enactments as aforesaid.
[15th December 1950]
Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Cesser of limitations on extension to Northern Ireland of Acts amending the principal Act, and consequential repeals and amendments.
(1) The extension to Northern Ireland of the following Acts amending the principal Act, namely, the Acts of 1923, 1925 and 1932, shall cease to be limited by reference to matters with respect to which the Parliament of Northern Ireland have not power to make laws, and accordingly—
(a ) the following enactments are hereby repealed, that is to say:—
(i) subsection (3) of section six of the Act of 1923, subsection (2) of section seven of the Act of 1925, and subsection (2) of section five of the Act of 1932 (whereby the extension of those Acts to Northern Ireland is limited as aforesaid); and
(ii) the Acts of the Parliament of Northern Ireland respectively entitled the Dangerous Drugs and Poisons (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland), 1924, the Dangerous Drugs Act (Northern Ireland), 1925, and the Dangerous Drugs Act (Northern Ireland), 1932 (which correspond to the Acts of 1923, 1925 and 1932); and
(b ) the principal Act (as amended by the Acts of 1923, 1925 and 1932) shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Act and the Act of 1923 shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in Part II of that Schedule.
(2) Any Order of His Majesty in Council under—
(a ) subsection (2) of section eight of the principal Act, as amended as aforesaid (which subsection empowers His Majesty to apply Part III of that Act to new habit-forming drugs and substances from which they can be derived);
(b ) subsection (1) of section two of the Act of 1932 (which subsection empowers His Majesty to exempt from the prohibition imposed by that subsection on trading in, and manufacturing, new products obtained from the phenanthrene alkaloids of opium or the ecgonine alkaloids of the coca leaf any product as respects which He is satisfied that it is of medical or scientific value); or
(c ) subsection (3) of the said section two (which subsection empowers His Majesty to apply Part III of the principal Act to methylmorphine, ethylmorphine and their respective salts),
being an Order in Council which is in force at the commencement of this Act, shall have effect as well in relation to Northern Ireland as in relation to Great Britain, and in Article 35 of the Government of Ireland (Adaptation of Enactments) (No. 3) Order, 1922 (which Article adapts references in the principal Act to His Majesty and Orders in Council), the reference to that Act shall be construed as a reference to the provisions thereof exclusive of the said section eight.
2 Amendments consequential on the supersession of the League of Nations by the United Nations.
(1) Section six of the Act of 1923, section five of the Act of 1925 and sections two and three of the Act of 1932 shall have effect subject to the following amendments:—
(a ) references to the Hague Convention, the Geneva Convention (No. 1) and the Geneva Convention (No. 2) shall be construed as references to those Conventions as amended by the Protocol on Narcotic Drugs signed at Lake Success, New York, on the eleventh day of December, nineteen hundred and forty-six; and
(b ) for references to the Council of the League of Nations and the Secretary-General of the League of Nations there shall be substituted respectively references to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
(2) In this section—
(a ) the expression ‘the Hague Convention’ means the International Opium Convention signed at the Hague on the twenty-third day of January, nineteen hundred and twelve;
(b ) the expression ‘the Geneva Convention (No. 1 )’ means the International Opium Convention signed at Geneva on the nineteenth day of February, nineteen hundred and twenty-five; and
(c ) the expression ‘the Geneva Convention (No. 2)’ means the Convention for the purpose of supplementing the provisions of the Conventions aforesaid which was signed at Geneva on the thirteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-one.
3 Other amendments.
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