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New UAE drug law: Optional deportation for expat convicts

Tourists, site visitors bring food or items blended with narcotics while getting in the nation for the very first time will certainly not encounter lawsuit

The brand-new modifications of the UAE’s anti-narcotics legislation offer the court with the choice of deporting deportees founded guilty in drug-related situations.

The government mandate legislation no. 30 of 2021 on combating narcotics and also psychotropic compounds alters the previous compulsory expulsion of deportees founded guilty with medicine intake or ownership of narcotics for individual usage.

The legislation, to be efficient from January 2, 2022, brings vital modifications to the Federal Regulation no. 14 of 1994.

It likewise states that visitors and also site visitors bring food things or items blended with narcotics while getting in the nation for the very first time will certainly not encounter lawsuit.

According to write-up 96 of the brand-new mandate legislation, the things will certainly be seized at port entrances and also damaged. Bring such things will certainly not be dealt with as import, transportation or ownership of medications.

The brand-new UAE anti-narcotics legislation comes as component of the biggest collection of legal reforms in the UAE’s background, revealed on Saturday, as the nation notes its 50th wedding anniversary and also plans for its following five-decade trip.

It intends to keep public wellness and also battle the usage, sale and also manufacturing of narcotics throughout the nation based on the most effective global methods.

Sherouk@khaleejtimes.com

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