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DRUGS MISUSE ACT 1986 - SECT 8

8 Producing dangerous drugs

A person who unlawfully produces a dangerous drug is guilty of a crime.

Maximum penalty--

(a) if the dangerous drug is a thing specified in the Drugs Misuse Regulation 1987, schedule 1 and the quantity of the thing is of or exceeds the quantity specified in the Drugs Misuse Regulation 1987, schedule 4 in respect of that thing--25 years imprisonment;
(b) if the dangerous drug is a thing specified in the Drugs Misuse Regulation 1987, schedule 1 and the quantity of the thing is of or exceeds the quantity specified in the Drugs Misuse Regulation 1987, schedule 3 but less than the quantity specified in the Drugs Misuse Regulation 1987, schedule 4 in respect of that thing and the person convicted--
(i) satisfies the judge constituting the court before which the person is convicted that when the person committed the offence the person was a drug dependent person--20 years imprisonment;
(ii) does not so satisfy the judge constituting the court before which the person is convicted--25 years imprisonment;
(c) in any other case where the dangerous drug is a thing specified in the Drugs Misuse Regulation 1987, schedule 1--20 years imprisonment;
(d) if the dangerous drug is a thing specified in the Drugs Misuse Regulation 1987, schedule 2 and the quantity of the thing is of or exceeds the quantity specified in the Drugs Misuse Regulation 1987, schedule 3 in respect of that thing--20 years imprisonment;
(e) in any other case where the dangerous drug is a thing specified in the Drugs Misuse Regulation 1987, schedule 2--15 years imprisonment.


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