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DRUGS (PREVENTION OF MISUSE) ACT
Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)
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DRUGS (PREVENTION OF MISUSE) ACT
ACT
1. Short Title
2. Interpretation
3. Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
4. Classification of controlled drugs
5. Restriction of importation and exportation of controlled drugs
6. Restriction of production and supply of controlled drugs
7. Handling of controlled drug
8. Restriction of possession of controlled drugs
8A. Exemption from criminal liability
9. Restriction of cultivation of cannabis plant
10. Authorisation of activities otherwise unlawful
11. Liability of occupiers
12. Possession of a controlled drug on or near school premises
13. Employment, hire or use of children and young persons in drug trade
14. Supply of controlled drug to child or young person
14A. Treatment and programmes for a child or young persons
15. Controlled drugs in transit
16. Removal licences
17. Tampering with controlled drugs in transit
18. Diversion of controlled drugs
19. Master of ship may be considered authorised
20. Prohibition of supply etc. of articles for administering or preparing controlled drugs
21. Power to make regulations
22. Special precautions for safe custody of controlled drugs
23. Restrictions on practitioners convicted of certain offences
24. Restrictions on practitioners in other cases
25. Penalties for drug trafficking
26. Assisting another to retain the benefit of drug trafficking
27. Obtaining information from practitioners
27A. Restriction on smoking cannabis in a public place
28. Miscellaneous offences
29. Attempts to commit offences
30. Commission of offence outside Saint Lucia
31. Offences by corporations
32. Further powers to make regulations
33. Powers to search and obtain evidence
34. Controlled delivery
35. Power to arrest
36. Committal to the High Court for sentence
37. Prosecution and punishment of offences
38. Forfeiture
39. Certificate of analyst admissible in evidence
40. Defences
41. Presumptions of possession and knowledge of controlled drug
42. Presumptions relating to places used for drug misuse
43. Service of documents
44. Licences and authorities
45. General provisions as to regulations
46. Research
47. Time for proceedings
48. Meaning of “corresponding law”and evidence of certain matters by certificate
49. Amendment of Schedules
50. Savings
Schedule 1
Schedule 2
Schedule 2
PART I CLASS A DRUGS
PART II CLASS B DRUGS
PART III CLASS C DRUGS
PART IV MEANING OF CERTAIN EXPRESSIONS USED IN THIS SCHEDULE
Schedule 3
Schedule 4
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION
Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations – Sections 45 and 21 (Statutory Instrument 35/1940)
1. Citation
2. Interpretation
3. Application
4. Manufacture
5. Sale and distribution
6. Conditions as to the giving of prescriptions
7. Official form
8. Conditions as to the dispensing of prescriptions
9. Possession
10. Marking of packages or bottles
11. Records
12. Annual returns
13. Supplies
14. Authorisation to manufacture, etc.
15. Authorisation to supply, etc.
16. Withdrawal of authorisations
17. Delivery to messengers
18. Meaning of “possession”
19. Master of ship may be deemed to be authorised
20. Hospitals
21. Preparations exempted from the regulations
22. Diversion of drugs in transit
23. Preservation of prescriptions
Schedule 1
Schedule 3
Schedule 4
Dangerous Drugs (Raw Opium and Cocoa Leaves) Regulations – Sections 21 and 45 (Statutory Instrument 36/1940)
1. Citation
2. Interpretation
3. Application
4. Sale and distribution
5. Possession
6. Records
7. Annual returns
8. Supplies
9. General Authorisations
10. Withdrawal of authorisations
11. Delivery to messengers
12. Meaning of “possession”
13. Diversion in transit
14. Preservation of registers
Schedule 1
Dangerous Drugs Order (Statutory Instrument 38/1940)
1. Citation
2. Exclusion of certain Preparations from Part V of the Act
Dangerous Drugs Order (Statutory Instrument 41/1958)
1. Citation
2. Application
Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Cannabis Cultivation) Regulations – Section 10(1)(b) (Statutory Instrument 208/2021)
1. Citation
3. Application
4. Cultivation of cannabis
5. Authorized activities in the cultivation of cannabis
6. Cultivation area
7. Indoor cultivation area
8. Restriction on cultivation near school premises