Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 2006 (WA)

Western Australia Western Australia

Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 2006

Western Australia

Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 2006

CONTENTS

1.	Short title	1
2.	Commencement	1
3.	The Act amended	2
4.	Section 32A amended	2

Western Australia

Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 2006

No. 40 of 2006

An Act to amend the Misuse of Drugs Act 1981.

[Assented to 22 September 2006]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

1.             Short title

This is the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 2006.

2.             Commencement

This Act comes into operation on a day fixed by proclamation.

Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 2006

s. 3

3.             The Act amended

The amendments in this Act are to the Misuse of Drugs

Act 1981*.

[* Reprint 3 as at 1 July 2005.]

4.             Section 32A amended

Section 32A(3) is amended in the definition of “external serious

drug offence” as follows:

(a) in paragraph (a) after “law of” by inserting —

“ the Commonwealth, of ”;

(b) by deleting paragraph (b) and inserting instead — “

(b)	offence against —
(i)

the repealed section 233B of the Commonwealth; or

(ii)      a law of the Commonwealth, which offence is prescribed to correspond to an offence against that repealed section;

”.