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Crime and Courts Bill [HL]

Proceeding contribution from Baroness Smith of Basildon (Labour) in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 12 December 2012. It occurred during Debate on bills on Crime and Courts Bill [HL].

My Lords, I am sorry to intervene but I just want the noble Lord to clarify the point about the instructions. Proposed new Section 5A(3)(b) says that D, the person who has been arrested,

“took the drug in accordance with any directions given by the person by whom the drug was prescribed or supplied, and with any accompanying instructions (so far as consistent with any such directions) given by the manufacturer or distributor of the drug”.

Is the Minister absolutely clear in his comments today that the doctor’s instructions with the drugs would always override any manufacturer’s instructions and that that would be a defence in law?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
741 c1115 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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