S.I. No. 28/1979:

MISUSE OF DRUGS ACT, 1977 (COMMENCEMENT) ORDER, 1979.

MISUSE OF DRUGS ACT, 1977 (COMMENCEMENT) ORDER, 1979.

The Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 43 (2) of the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1977 (No. 12 of 1977), hereby orders as follows:--

1. This Order may be cited as the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1977 (Commencement) Order, 1979.

2. In this Order--

"the Act" means the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1977 .

3. Sections 1, 2 and 4 to 14 (inclusive), section 21 (1), section 27 (2), subsections (1), (2), (6) and (7) of section 29, sections 32 to 40 (inclusive) and subsections (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6) of section 43 of the Act, together with the Schedule to the Act, shall come into operation generally on the 1st day of March, 1979.

4. Subsection (1) of section 42 of the Act shall come into operation--

( a ) for the purpose of effecting the repeal of the matter referred to in paragraph (a) of that subsection, on the 1st day of March, 1979, and

( b ) for the purpose of effecting the repeal of the matter referred to in paragraph (b) of that subsection, on the 1st day of May, 1979.

5. The provisions of the Act, other than those referred to in articles 3 and 4 of this Order, shall come into operation generally on the 1st day of May, 1979.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this 8th day of February, 1979.

CHARLES J. HAUGHEY,

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order fixes the dates on which the various provisions of the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1977 , are to come into operation.