{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drug-trafficking-offences-act-1986/section-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drug-trafficking-offences-act-1986/section-24.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/32",
  "legislation_title": "Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drug-trafficking-offences-act-1986",
  "path": "section/24",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Assisting another to retain the benefit of drug trafficking.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) In Part II of Schedule 1 to the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (persons convicted of offences under certain enactments not eligible for early release), after paragraph 25 there is inserted—\n“ DRUG TRAFFICKING OFFENCES ACT 1986 (c. 32)\n26 Section 24 (assisting another to retain the benefit of drug trafficking).”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act except ss. 24(6), 32, 34, 40(1)(3)-(5) repealed (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 37, ss. 67, 69(2), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1982 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S.24 applied (1.8.1994) by S.I. 1994/1757, reg. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/32/section/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:56:13.803214+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}