Aerial operations: report for the month of January 1983

In the entries in Schedule 4 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 showing the punishment which may be imposed where a Class A drug is involved on persons convicted of offences under sections 4(2), 4(3) and 5(3) of that Act (production, supply and possession with intent to supply) for “14 years" there shall be substituted “Life".

In paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (punishments for controlled drug offences) the following paragraph shall be substituted for the paragraph set out as paragraph (b) of sections 50(4), 68(3) and 170(3)—.

This Act shall come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which it is passed.

Nothing in this Act shall affect the punishment for an offence committed before this Act comes into force.

This Act may be cited as the Controlled Drugs (Penalties) Act 1985.

This Act extends to Northern Ireland.