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Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 1979

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Short Title

Inadmissibility of evidence of private communications unlawfully intercepted

Application of certain provisions of Summary Proceedings Act 1957

Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 1979

Public Act		1979 No 2
Date of assent		20 June 1979

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Inadmissibility of evidence of private communications unlawfully intercepted
3	Application of certain provisions of Summary Proceedings Act 1957
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 1979, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975.

2 Inadmissibility of evidence of private communications unlawfully intercepted

Section 25(1) of the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 1978 is hereby amended—

(a)

By inserting, after the words “no evidence” where they first occur, the words “so acquired”:

(b)

By inserting, after the words “and no”, the word “other”.

3 Application of certain provisions of Summary Proceedings Act 1957

Section 34 of the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 1978 is hereby amended by repealing subsection (1), and substituting the following subsection:

“(1)

Nothing in section 46 of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957 so far as it authorises a Court or Justice to allow a defendant to go at large, or in sections 49(1), 51 to 54, 56, 125, 126, and 153(d), (f), and (g) of that Act, shall apply in respect of any person charged with or convicted of a drug dealing offence.”

This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.

Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 1979