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(1)Where a person aged 18 or over is convicted of an offence, the court by or before which he is convicted may (subject to sections 34 to 36 above) make an order which requires the offender—
(a)to abstain from misusing specified Class A drugs; and
(b)to provide, when instructed to do so by the responsible officer, any sample mentioned in the instruction for the purpose of ascertaining whether he has any specified Class A drug in his body.
(2)An order under subsection (1) above is in this Act referred to as a “drug abstinence order”.
(3)The court shall not make a drug abstinence order in respect of an offender unless—
(a)in the opinion of the court, the offender is dependent on, or has a propensity to misuse, specified Class A drugs; and
(b)the offence in question is a trigger offence or, in the opinion of the court, the misuse by the offender of any specified Class A drug caused or contributed to the offence in question.
(4)A drug abstinence order shall provide that, for the period for which the order has effect, the offender shall be under the supervision of a person, being a person of a description specified in an order made by the Secretary of State.
(5)In this Act, “responsible officer”, in relation to an offender who is subject to a drug abstinence order, means the person who is responsible for his supervision.
(6)The function of giving instructions for the purposes of subsection (1)(b) above shall be exercised in accordance with guidance given from time to time by the Secretary of State.
(7)A drug abstinence order shall have effect for a period specified in the order of not less than six months nor more than three years.
(8)The Secretary of State may make rules for regulating the provision of samples in pursuance of such instructions.
(9)A court shall not make a drug abstinence order unless the court has been notified by the Secretary of State that arrangements for implementing such orders are available in the area proposed to be specified in the order under section 54(1) above (as applied by section 58B(2) below) and the notice has not been withdrawn.
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 58A, 58B and cross-heading inserted (20.6.2001 for specified purposes otherwise 2.7.2001) by 2000 c. 43, s. 47; S.I. 2001/2232, art. 2(a)
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