Poisons Act 1971
59ABTreatment centres
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59AB Treatment centres
[Section 59AB Inserted by No. 30 of 2021, s. 7, Applied:01 Mar 2022]
(1) The Secretary may, in writing, approve a place as a treatment centre.
(2) The Secretary may, in writing, revoke the approval of a place as a treatment centre.
(3) A place that was, immediately before the commencement of this section, a treatment centre, within the meaning of the Alcohol and Drug Dependency Act 1968 as then in force, is taken to be a treatment centre approved under subsection (1) until revoked under subsection (2) , if at all.
(4) An instrument in writing under this section –
(a) is not a statutory rule for the purposes of the Rules Publication Act 1953 ; and
(b) is not subordinate legislation for the purposes of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1992 .