Bill Number 34 of 2010
Sponsored by Minister Minister for Justice and Law Reform
Source: Government
Method:Presented
Status: New Bill


Bill entitled an Act to prevent the misuse of dangerous or otherwise harmful psychoactive substances;

to provide for offences relating to the sale, importation, exportation or advertisement of those substances;

to provide for offences relating to the sale and advertisement of certain objects for use in the cultivation of certain plants, fungi, natural organisms or substances in contravention of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977;

to provide for powers of the Garda Síochána in relation to the investigation of those offences;

to make provision in relation to the issuing of prohibition notices by certain members of the Garda Síochána to certain persons in relation to activities that are prohibited;

to provide for the making by the district court of prohibition orders and closure orders in certain circumstances;

to amend the Ciustoms and Excise (Miscellanous Provisions) Act 1988; and to provide for related matters.