Dangerous Drugs Act, 1965 : Elizabeth II 1965. Ch. 15.

  • Great Britain.
Date:
1965]
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Credit: Dangerous Drugs Act, 1965 : Elizabeth II 1965. Ch. 15. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PART LV Parliamentary control of regulation- making powers. Meaning of ** correspond- ing law’. General interpretation. 22.—(1) Any power to make regulations conferred by this Act on a Secretary of State shall be exercisable by statutory instrument, and a statutory instrument made in exercise of any such power shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament. (2) Every regulation made under this Act by the Ministry of Home Affairs for Northern Ireland shall be laid forthwith before each House of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, and if an Address is presented to the Governor of Northern Ireland within the period hereinafter mentioned praying that the regulation may be annulled, the Governor of Northern Ireland in Council may annul the regulation and it shall thenceforth be void, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder. The period referred to in the foregoing provisions of this subsection is, in relation to either House of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, a period beginning with the day following that on which the regulation is laid before it and comprising ten days at least on which that House has sat, but not being in any case shorter in duration than twenty days ; and days comprised in more than one Session of the Parliament of Northern Ireland may be reckoned for the purposes of this provision. 23.—(1) In this Act the expression “corresponding law” means a law stated in a certificate purporting to be issued by or on behaif of the government of a country outside the United Kingdom to be a law providing for the control and regulation in that country of the manufacture, sale, use, export and import of drugs and other substances in accordance with the provisions of the Single Convention or a law providing for the control and regulation in that country of the manufacture, sale, use, export and import of drugs in accordance with the provisions of the Hague Convention, the Geneva Convention (No. 1) and the Geneva Convention (No. 2) as respectively amended by the Protocol. (2) A statement in any such certificate as aforesaid as to the effect of the law mentioned in the certificate or a statement in any such certificate that any facts constitute an offence against that law shall be conclusive. 24.—(1) In this Act the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say : — “ cannabis ” (except where used in the expression ‘ cannabis resin’) means the flowering or fruiting tops of any plant of the genus cannabis from which the resin has not been extracted, by whatever name they may be designated ;