Misuse of Drugs Act 1975

28 Legal proceedings

• (1) Except where this Act otherwise provides, every offence against this Act or against any regulations made under this Act shall be punishable on summary conviction.

  (2) Notwithstanding anything in section 14 of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957, any information in respect of any offence against this Act or against any regulations made under this Act may be laid at any time within 4 years from the time when the matter of the information arose.

  (2A) Notwithstanding anything in section 14 of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957 or subsection (2), any information in respect of any offence against section 6 or section 9 or section 10 may be laid at any time.

  (3) Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).

  Compare: 1965 No 45 s 16

  Section 28(2A): inserted, on 7 January 1981, by section 2 of the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 1980 (1980 No 64).