The Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday passed unanimously a government-initiated bill which adds 21 substances to Macau’s anti-drug law, based on recent decisions passed by the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs that include additional 24 substances subject to international control.
The current anti-drug law was enacted in 2009. The law is officially known as the Law on the Prohibition of the Illicit Production, Trafficking and Consumption of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances.
As the government had requested an urgent procedure for the debate and vote of the bill, it was not arranged for review by any of the legislature’s standing committees before its final article-by-article debate and vote. Therefore, after the outline of the bill was passed in yesterday’s plenary session, its final article-by-article debate and vote were immediately carried out. The lawmakers passed the bill article-by-article.
Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak (right), accompanied by Judiciary Police (PJ) Director Sit Chong Meng (centre) and Vong Chi Hong, who heads the PJ Criminal Investigation Department, speaks during yesterday’s plenary session in the legislature’s hemicycle Photo: GCS
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