Act 54 of 2007 provided for designated and licensed treatment centres, voluntary admission, and compulsory admission following medical assessment and a magistrate's order. It also allowed convicted drug-dependent people to be transferred for treatment, which a court could count towards a sentence. Certification on 13 November was an enactment milestone: section 1 left commencement to a later ministerial Gazette order. The act concerned drug dependence generally, not permission to use cannabis.[1]
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References
- Parliament of Sri Lanka — Drug Dependant Persons (Treatment and Rehabilitation) Act 54 of 2007Cover certification date; sections 1–3 and 9–11; enactment distinguished from appointed commencementarchived
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