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 * (iii) section 5(3) (having possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply it to another);
 * (iv) section 8 (being the occupier, or concerned in the management, of premises and permitting or suffering certain activities to take place there);
 * (v) section 12(6) (contravention of direction prohibiting practitioner etc. from possessing, supplying etc. controlled drugs); or
 * (vi) section 13(3) (contravention of direction prohibiting practitioner etc. from prescribing, supplying etc. controlled drugs);
 * (c) offences under the following provisions of the Customs and Excise Act 1952, where the controlled drug constituting the goods in respect of which the offence was committed was a Class C drug, namely—
 * (i) section 45(1) (improper importation);
 * (ii) section 56(2) (improper exportation);
 * (iii) section 304 (fraudulent evasion of prohibition or restriction affecting goods).

(3) In this paragraph “controlled drug”, “Class B drug” and “Class C drug” have the same meaning as in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.

2. In Schedule 4 to the Road Traffic Act 1972 (prosecution and punishment of offences), in the entries relating to section 2 (reckless driving) and section 99(b) (driving while disqualified), for the punishment specified in column 4 in relation to an offence punishable summarily there shall in each case be substituted the words “6 months or the prescribed sum (within the meaning of section 28 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 or, in Scotland, of section 289B of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975) or both.”.