Misuse of Drugs Amendment Regulations 2007 (WA)

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P0301*

Misuse of Drugs Act 1981

Misuse of Drugs Amendment Regulations 2007

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.            Citation

These regulations are the Misuse of Drugs Amendment
Regulations 2007.

Gazette 11 July 2006.]

2.            Commencement

These regulations come into operation on the day on which the
Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 2006 comes into operation.

3.            The regulations amended

The amendments in these regulations are to the Misuse of Drugs
Regulations 1982*.

[* Reprinted as at 19 October 2001.

For amendments to 7 March 2007 see Western Australian
Legislation Information Tables for 2005, Table 4, and

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4.            Regulation 7B amended

Regulation 7B(7)(a) is amended by deleting "Drug Received
Room at Police Headquarters in Perth;" and inserting instead -

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work unit within the Police Service responsible for receipt, storage, analysis and destruction of seized drugs;

5.             Regulation 1OA inserted

After regulation 10 the following regulation is inserted -

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10A.	External serious drug offences (section 32A(3))
(1)	In this regulation - "Commonwealth Criminal Code" means the

Criminal Code set Out in the Schedule to the

Criminal Code Act 1995 of the Commonwealth.

(2)	Subregulations (3) and (4) have effect for the purposes of paragraph (a) of the definition of "external serious drug offence" in section 32A(3) of the Act.
(3)	An offence against a provision of the Commonwealth Criminal Code specified in the Table to this subregulation is prescribed to correspond to a crime under section 6(1) of the Act.

Table

s. 302.2(1)	s. 305.5(1)
s. 302.3(1)	s. 309.2(1)
s. 302.4(1)	s. 309.3(1)
s. 305.3(1)	s. 309.4(1)
s. 305.4(1)

(4) An offence against a provision of the Commonwealth
Criminal Code specified in the Table to this
subregulation is prescribed to correspond to a crime
under section 7(1) of the Act.

Table

s. 303.4(1)	s.304.1(1)
s. 303.5(1)	s. 304.2(1)
s. 303.6(1)	s. 304.3(1)

(5) Subregulation (6) has effect for the purposes of
paragraph (b) of the definition of "external serious drug
offence" in section 32A(3) of the Act.

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(6) An offence against a provision of the Commonwealth

Criminal Code specified in the Table to this
subregulation is prescribed to correspond to an offence
against the repealed section 233B of the Customs

Act 1901 of the Commonwealth.

Table

s. 307.1(1)	s. 307.6(1)
s. 307.2(1)	s. 307.7(1)
s. 307.3(1)	s. 307.8(1)
s. 307.4(1)	s. 307.9(1)
s. 307.5(1)	s. 307.10(1)

By Command of the Governor,

G. M. PIKE, Clerk of the Executive Council.