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MISUSE OF DRUGS ACT 1981 - SECT 44

44 .         Transitional regulations

        (1)         Regulations may prescribe all matters that are required or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for dealing with any issue or matter of a savings or transitional nature —

            (a)         that arises as a result of the amendment of this Act by another Act (an amending Act ); and

            (b)         for which there is no sufficient provision in this Act or the amending Act.

        (2)         Regulations made under this section may provide that specified provisions of this Act do not apply, or apply with modifications specified in the regulations, to or in relation to any matter.

        (3)         Regulations made under this section may provide that a state of affairs specified in the regulations is to be taken to have existed, or not to have existed, on and from a day that is earlier than the day on which the regulations come into operation but not earlier than the day on which the relevant amending Act, or the relevant provision or provisions of that Act, came into operation.

        (4)         If the regulations contain a provision referred to in subsection (3), the provision does not operate so as —

            (a)         to affect in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the State), the rights of that person existing before the regulations commenced; or

            (b)         to impose liabilities on any person (other than the State) in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before the regulations commenced.

        [Section 44 inserted: No. 45 of 2010 s. 8.]

Division 2 Provisions for Cannabis Law Reform Act 2010

        [Heading inserted: No. 45 of 2010 s. 8.]



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