Police Act Amendment Act 1953 (WA)

1953.] Police. [No. 28.

POLICE.

2° Elizabeth II., No. XXVIII.

No. 28 of 1953.

AN ACT to amend the Police Act, 1892-1952.

[Assented to 18th December, 1953.]

BE it enacted, by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Police Act Short title and ittion.

Amendment Act,1953.

(2) In this Act the Police Act, 1892-1952,

Act II Victories No. 27, 1892, as reprinted with amendments to and including Act No. 15 of 1952 incorporated pursuant to the provisions of the Amendments Incorporation Act, 1938,

is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Police Act, 1892-1953.

2. This Act shall come into operation on a day ar ence-

to be fixed by proclamation.

3. Section three of the principal Act is amended Handed.

by adding after line twenty-one the following:

PART VIB.—Prohibition of the manufacture, use, sale, acquisition, possession, distribution, and supply of diamorphine, commonly known as heroin, ss. 94F- 94H.

4. Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 24 wed.

ninety-four A is amended

(a) by deleting the word, "diamorphine (com- monly known as heroin) and" in line three;

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(b)	by adding before the word, "cocaine" in line eight the word, "or"; and
(c)	by deleting the words, ", or diamorphine" in line eight.

S. 94C

amended.	5.	Subsection (2) of section ninety-four C of the
Cf. No. 30 of

1918, S. 36 as	principal Act is repealed.
amended.
Part VIB

added. 6. The principal Act is amended by adding after

section ninety-four E the following heading and

sections:

PART VIB.—Prohibition of the manufacture, use, sale,

acquisition, possession, distribution, and supply of

diamorphine, commonly known as heroin.

Interpreta-

tion. 94F. In this Part unless the context requires

otherwise

"drug" means diamorphine, commonly known as heroin, and includes its salts and any preparation, admixture, extract, or other substance containing it;

"to possess" includes to have control or dominion over, and to have the dis- position of, and inflextions and deriva- tives of the verb, "to possess" have correlative meanings;

"to sell" means to sell by wholesale or retail and includes barter, supply for profit, offer for sale, receive for sale, have in possession for sale, expose for sale, send forward or deliver for sale, cause or suffer to be sold, and inflections and derivatives of the verb "to sell" have correlative meanings.

Prohibition 94G. It is an offence to manufacture, use,

sell, acquire, possess, distribute, or supply the

drug.

Penalties.

Cf. . 8. 94E. 94H.

The provisions of subsections (1), (3), (4), (5), (6) and (7) of section 94E of this Act, apply as if repeated at length in this section, and for the purposes of giving effect in this section to the provisions of subsection (7) of that section, the Governor may make regula- tions providing for the analysing of any drug or substance by an analyst appointed under the Health Act, 1911.