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Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances
Amendment (Repeal of Part X) Act 2007
No. 10 of 2007
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section Page
1 Purposes 1
2 Commencement 2
3 Repeal of Part X—Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances
Act 1981 2
4 New section 141 inserted—Drugs, Poisons and Controlled
Substances Act 1981 3
141 Drug Rehabilitation and Research Fund 3
5 Repeal of transitional provision—Confiscation Act 1997 3
6 Statute Law Revision—Drugs, Poisons and Controlled
Substances (Amendment) Act 2006 3
7 Repeal of Act 4
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ENDNOTES 5
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Drugs, Poisons and Controlled
Substances Amendment (Repeal of
Part X) Act 2007 †
No. 10 of 2007
[Assented to 8 May 2007]
The Parliament of Victoria enacts:
1 Purposes
The purposes of this Act are—
(a) to repeal Part X of the Drugs, Poisons and
Controlled Substances Act 1981; and
(b) to amend that Act to close the Drug
Rehabilitation and Research Fund
established under Part X of that Act; and
Victoria
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(c) to provide for the transfer of all money
standing to the credit of that Fund to the
Consolidated Fund; and
(d) to repeal a spent transitional provision in the
Confiscation Act 1997 related to the Drug
Rehabilitation and Research Fund; and
(e) to make an amendment to the Drugs,
Poisons and Controlled Substances
(Amendment) Act 2006 in the nature of
statute law revision.
2 Commencement
(1) Sections 1 and 6 and this section come into
operation on the day after the day on which this
Act receives the Royal Assent.
(2) The remaining provisions of this Act come into
operation on 1 July 2007.
3 Repeal of Part X—Drugs, Poisons and Controlled
Substances Act 1981
Part X of the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled
Substances Act 1981 is repealed.
s. 2
See:
Act No.
9719.
Reprint No. 7
as at 1 July
2004 and
amending
Act Nos
55/2003,
16/2004,
74/2004,
80/2004,
87/2004,
108/2004,
93/2005,
97/2005,
17/2006,
18/2006,
48/2006,
52/2006 and
80/2006.
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4 New section 141 inserted—Drugs, Poisons and
Controlled Substances Act 1981
At the end of Part XII of the Drugs, Poisons and
Controlled Substances Act 1981 insert—
"141 Drug Rehabilitation and Research Fund
(1) On 1 July 2007—
(a) the Drug Rehabilitation and Research
Fund is closed; and
(b) all money standing to the credit of the
Drug Rehabilitation and Research Fund
must be paid into the Consolidated
Fund.
(2) In this section, Drug Rehabilitation and
Research Fund means the trust fund
established by section 124 of the Drugs,
Poisons and Controlled Substances Act
1981 as in force immediately before 1 July
2007.".
5 Repeal of transitional provision—Confiscation Act
1997
Section 157(10) of the Confiscation Act 1997 is
repealed.
6 Statute Law Revision—Drugs, Poisons and
Controlled Substances (Amendment) Act 2006
In section 12 of the Drugs, Poisons and
Controlled Substances (Amendment) Act 2006,
in proposed new section 71D, after "quantity that
is not less" insert "than".
s. 4
See:
Act No.
108/1997.
Reprint No. 4
as at 10 March
2005 and
amending
Act Nos
108/2004,
6/2005,
18/2005,
16/2006 and
79/2006.
LawToday:
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legislation.
vic.gov.au
See:
Act No.
52/2006.
Statute Book:
www.
legislation.
vic.gov.au
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7 Repeal of Act
This Act is repealed on 1 July 2008.
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ENDNOTES
† Minister's second reading speech—
Legislative Assembly: 28 February 2007
Legislative Council: 19 April 2007
The long title for the Bill for this Act was "A Bill for an Act to repeal
Part X of the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981, to
amend that Act to close the Drug Rehabilitation and Research Fund
established under Part X of that Act, to provide for the transfer of all
money standing to the credit of that Fund to the Consolidated Fund, to
repeal a spent transitional provision in the Confiscation Act 1997 relating
to that Fund and to make a statute law revision amendment to the Drugs,
Poisons and Controlled Substances (Amendment) Act 2006 and for
other purposes."
Endnotes
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