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  Psychoactive Substances Bill - Clause 8 - Importing of A Psychoactive Substance for Personal Use
  
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  @ MP voted aye not to make it an offence to import psychoactive substances for personal use. 
  
  @ MP voted no to make it an offence to import psychoactive substances for personal use. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted to make it an offence to import psychoactive substances for personal use. 
  
  MPs were considering the Psychoactive Substances Bill[1]. 
  
  The amendment rejected by the majority of MPs taking part in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 14, page 4, line 38, leave out paragraph (i)
  
  This amendment would have impacted Clause 8 subsection (1) of the Bill which at the time of the vote stated[2]:
  
  :(1) A person commits an offence ifâ
  :(a) the person intentionally imports a substance,
  :(b) the substance is a psychoactive substance,
  :(c) the person knows or suspects, or ought to know or suspect, that the substance is a psychoactive substance, and
  :(d) the personâ
  :(i) intends to consume the psychoactive substance for its psychoactive effects, or
  :(ii) knows, or is reckless as to whether, the psychoactive substance is likely to be consumed by some other person for its psychoactive effects. 
  
  An explanatory note from Anne McLaughlin MP who proposed the amendment explained its intent[3]:
  
  :This amendment seeks to exclude from criminalisation those who order psychoactive substances over the internet for personal consumption.
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/psychoactivesubstances.html Parliament's webpage on the Psychoactive Substances Bill (now an Act)]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2015-2016/0088/cbill_2015-20160088_en_2.htm#pb3-l1g8 Clause 8 of the Psychoactive Substances Bill as at the time of the vote]
  * [3] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2016-01-20b.1491.0 House of Commons, Official Record, 20 January 2015]
  
  
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