OPIUM PROSECUTIONS
RESPONSIBILITY OF POLICE CHANGE IN DANGEROUS DRUGS LAW (THE SUN’S Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The object of the Dangerous Drugs Amendment Bill, read a first time in the House to-day is to give the police power to initiate proceedings for offences under part 2 of the Act of last year. This part of the Act relates to the manufacture and disposal of dangerous drugs, and it was contemplated that the whole of the facts relating to their use would be peculiarly within the knowledge of the medical- officers of health, who were given the sole authority for laying informations for breaches of the Act. In practice it has been found that most of the offences under part 2 of the Act relate te opium smoking. The police are almost wholly responsible for discovering this class of offence, and it is now desired that they should lay the information in these cases.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 452, 6 September 1928, Page 13
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153OPIUM PROSECUTIONS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 452, 6 September 1928, Page 13
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