Centre Promulgates Ordinance To Rectify Anomaly In Section 27A NDPS Act With Retrospective Effect
Live LawThe Centre has promulgated Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Ordinance, 2021, amending section 27A of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 to rectify an anomaly that had crept in.Section 27A deals with the punishment for financing illicit traffic and harbouring offenders. The Centre has promulgated Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Ordinance, 2021, amending section 27A of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 to rectify an anomaly that had crept in. "The amendment does not create any new offence but contains a legislative declaration that reference of clause always meant the corresponding renumbered provision in clause and the amendment seeks to rectify this anomaly by making changes in section 27 of the said Act in order to carry out the legislative intent of the statute, which has always been to read clause in section 27, and already stood therein", the notification reads. ""We would hold that until the appropriate legislative change occurs by amending Section 27A of the NDPS Act appropriately, sub-clauses to of clause of Section-2 of the NDPS Act shall suffer effect of deletion and bringing in sub-clauses i-v of the clause viii-b of Section-2 of the NDPS Act in that place.
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