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Psychoactive Substances Act 2016

Government Bill

Originated in the House of Lords, Session 2015-16

Act of Parliament (1)

Full text of the Act of Parliament as passed by Parliament (this is the Act in its original state. The Act may have been amended by another Act and any such amendments are not shown in this version).

Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 c.2
1 February 2016
Commons

Full text of the Bill as introduced and further versions of the Bill as it is reprinted to incorporate amendments (proposals for change) made during its passage through Parliament.

20 January 2016
Lords
Bill 88 2015-16 (as amended in Public Bill Committee)
30 October 2015
Commons
Bill 63 2015-16 (as brought from the Lords)
22 July 2015
Commons
14 July 2015
Lords
HL Bill 53 2015-16 [as amended in Committee]
30 June 2015
Lords
28 May 2015
Lords

Tracked changes versions of the Bill, showing amendments made in Committee of the whole House and in Public Bill Committees in the House of Commons. Please note that these are unofficial versions and may not be completely accurate.

Version of the bill showing changes made in committee
30 October 2015
Commons

Documents to explain the purpose of the Bill.

Tracked changes versions of the Bill, showing amendments made in Committee, Grand Committee or in Special Public Bill Committee in the House of Lords. Please note that these are unofficial versions and may not be completely accurate.

Version of the bill showing changes made in committee
2 July 2015
Lords

In the House of Commons, amendments are grouped together so that amendments relating to a particular topic or issue are discussed together.

Consideration on Report
19 January 2016
Commons
Consideration in Committee: Selection 2
28 October 2015
Commons
Consideration in Committee: Selection 1
26 October 2015
Commons

Full list of amendment papers relating to the Bill. Individual amendment papers will be replaced with consolidated lists before the amendments are discussed. Page and line references in amendment papers refer to the PDF version of the Bill.

Consideration of Bill Amendments as at 20 January 2016
20 January 2016
Commons
Notices of Amendments as at 18 January 2016
19 January 2016
Commons
Notices of Amendments as at 15 January 2016
18 January 2016
Commons
Notices of Amendments as at 14 January 2016
15 January 2016
Commons
Notices of Amendments as at 13 January 2016
14 January 2016
Commons
Notices of Amendments as at 12 January 2016
13 January 2016
Commons
Notices of Amendments as at 15 December 2015
16 December 2015
Commons
Public Bill Committee Amendments as at 29 October 2015
29 October 2015
Commons
Notices of Amendments as at 27 October 2015
28 October 2015
Commons
Public Bill Committee Amendments as at 27 October 2015
27 October 2015
Commons
Notices of Amendments as at 23 October 2015
26 October 2015
Commons
Notices of Amendments as at 20 October 2015
23 October 2015
Commons
16 July 2015
Lords
Revised Marshalled List of Amendments to be moved on Report
13 July 2015
Lords
Marshalled List of Amendments to be moved on Report
10 July 2015
Lords
9 July 2015
Lords
8 July 2015
Lords
7 July 2015
Lords
Second Marshalled List of Amendments to be moved in Committee
26 June 2015
Lords
Amendments to be moved in Committee [Supplementary to the Marshalled List]
24 June 2015
Lords
Amendments to be moved in Committee [Supplementary to the Marshalled List]
22 June 2015
Lords
Marshalled List of Amendments to be moved in Committee
19 June 2015
Lords
18 June 2015
Lords
17 June 2015
Lords
11 June 2015
Lords

Details of proceedings in Public Bill Committee or Committee of the whole House, on any report (consideration) stage, and on any consideration of Lords Amendments or any subsequent Lords Messages. The documents contain the text of amendments considered at each sitting and show whether it was agreed to, negatived (not agreed), not called, not moved or withdrawn.

Report Stage Proceedings as at 20 January 2016
21 January 2016
Commons
Public Bill Committee Proceedings as at 29 October 2015
30 October 2015
Commons

House of Commons Library and House of Lords Library briefing papers aim to be politically impartial, containing factual information as well as a range of opinions on each subject. Briefing papers on Bills are produced before Second Reading and, in the Commons, after Committee Stage.

Committee Stage Report
15 January 2016
Commons
Briefing Paper on Second Reading
15 October 2015
Commons
Briefing paper on the background of psychoactive substances
4 June 2015
Lords

The following select committee reports have been identified as relevant to the debate on the Bill.

Home Affairs Committee First Report of Session 2015-16; Psychoactive substances, HC 361
23 October 2015
Commons

Archive of press notices related to the Bill.

Have your say on the Psychoactive Substances Bill
21 October 2015
Commons

Written submissions from outside bodies and individuals are circulated to MPs appointed to examine the Bill during committee stage in a Public Bill Committee. The following written submissions were sent to this committee.

Commons Committee stage

Written Evidence: consolidated pdf version
6 November 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: Release and Transform (PSB20)
29 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: Release and Transform: Appendix A (PSB20a)
29 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: Release and Transform: Appendix B (PSB20b)
29 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) (PSB21)
29 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: Rt Hon Mike Penning MP, Minister for Policing, Crime, Criminal Justice and Victims, Home Office - further submission (PSB22a)
29 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: Rt Hon Mike Penning MP, Minister for Policing, Crime, Criminal Justice and Victims, Home Office - further submission (PSB22b)
29 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: Rt Hon Mike Penning MP, Minister for Policing, Crime, Criminal Justice and Victims, Home Office - further submission (PSB22c)
29 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: Rt Hon Mike Penning MP, Minister for Policing, Crime, Criminal Justice and Victims, Home Office - further submission (PSB22d)
29 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: Royal Society for Public Health (PSB23)
29 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: Addaction (PSB24)
29 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: The Beckley Foundation (PSB25)
29 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: The Children's Society (PSB01)
27 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: Lyndon Sheppard (PSB02)
27 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: DrugScience (PSB03)
27 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: The Psychedelic Society (PSB04)
27 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: John Martin BA MSc, Substance Misuse Project Worker, Fife (PSB05)
27 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: Simon Topham, Chief Executive, Millivres Prowler Group (PSB06)
27 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: Rt Hon Mike Penning MP, Minister for Policing, Crime, Criminal Justice and Victims, Home Office (PSB07)
27 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: Rt Hon Mike Penning MP, Minister for Policing, Crime, Criminal Justice and Victims, Home Office - further submission (PSB08)
27 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) (PSB09)
27 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: Daryl Sullivan (PSB10)
27 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: KTR Environmental Solutions Ltd (PSB11)
27 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: Danny Diskin, Inter Faith Alliance UK (PSB12)
27 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: Sandra Heyward JP, Cornwall Councillor for the Gover Division (PSB13)
27 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research & Service (ICEERS Foundation) (PSB14)
27 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: Hampshire County Council Trading Standards Service (PSB15)
27 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: Dr Ornella Corazza and Dr Andres Roman Urrestarazu (PSB17)
27 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: Mr Joseph Woollen (PSB18)
27 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: The Law Society of Scotland (PSB19)
27 October 2015
Commons
Written Evidence: Drugs, Alcohol and Justice Cross-Party Parliamentary Group (PSB16)
27 October 2015
Commons

Occasionally questions put to government Ministers during debates on Bills in either the House of Commons or the House of Lords may be answered by the Minister saying 'I will write to the Hon Member'. Such “will write” replies are not published in Hansard but are placed in the Library of the House concerned and published on the Parliamentary website.

Letter dated 15/06/2015 from Lord Bates to Lord Rosser regarding points raised during the second reading, addressing the role of the ACMD, EU law, prisons, and medicinal use of cannabis
15 June 2016
Letter from Mike Penning MP to Lyn Brown MP and others regarding points raised during the Committee stage of the Psychoactive Substances Bill on 29 Oct 2015
17 November 2015

Full transcripts

Commons Committee stage

30 October 2015
Commons
28 October 2015
Commons
28 October 2015
Commons

Lords 1st reading

28 May 2015
Lords

Lords 2nd reading

9 June 2015
Lords

Lords Committee stage

Committee: 2nd sitting (Hansard)
30 June 2015
Lords
Committee: 2nd sitting (Minutes of Proceedings)
30 June 2015
Lords
Committee: 1st sitting (Hansard)
23 June 2015
Lords
Committee: 1st sitting (Minutes of Proceedings)
23 June 2015
Lords

Lords Report stage

Report stage (Hansard)
14 July 2015
Lords
Report stage (Minutes of Proceedings)
14 July 2015
Lords

Lords 3rd reading

3rd reading (Hansard)
20 July 2015
Lords
3rd reading (Minutes of Proceedings)
20 July 2015
Lords

Commons 1st reading

21 July 2015
Commons

Commons 2nd reading

19 October 2015
Commons

Commons Programme motion

Programme motion
19 October 2015
Commons

Commons Report stage

20 January 2016
Commons

Commons 3rd reading

20 January 2016
Commons

Lords Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasons

Ping Pong (Hansard)
26 January 2016
Lords
Ping Pong (Minutes of Proceedings)
26 January 2016
Lords

Royal Assent

Royal Assent (Hansard)
28 January 2016
Royal Assent (Minutes of Proceedings)
28 January 2016

Public Bill Committee Proceedings as at 27 October 2015
28 October 2015
Commons