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Supplement to Official Gazette Extraordinary

THE DANGEROUS DRUGS (AMENDMENT) ACT 1965 1965 No. 4 AN AcT TO CONFER SUMMARY JURISDICTION ON MAGISTRATES IN RESPECT OF DANGEROUS DRUGS. [21st May 1965] BE IT ENACTED by the Legislature of the Federation of Nigeria in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority. of the same as follows : 1. The Dangerous Drugs Act is hereby amended by the insertion at the end of section 20 thereof {which relates to offences and penalties) of a new subsection as follows : "(6) Every magistrate whether in Lagos or in any Region shall, notwithstanding anything contained in any enactment, have jurisdictio…