Is drug abuse outside the country a drug crime under UAE law?

محاكم الولاية ليست مختصة بالاستماع drug crimes law proceedings if the accused is found to be guilty outside the state.

جريمة تعاطي المخدرات هي جريمة مخدرات مؤقتة وغير مستمرة

ماذا لو تم تناول المخدرات خارج دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة؟

What the UAE provides for in the fight against narcotic substances and psychotropic substances according to Drug Crimes and Criminal Law:

“The crime of drug abuse is a temporary crime, not a continuing crime, because its material element is achieved at a specific moment of time and ends with the end of the act of abuse.

This is not affected by the continuing effect of the crime of drug abuse since the effect of the act is not to be considered in its legal adaptation

المادة 142 من قانون الإجراءات الجنائية stipulates that “jurisdiction shall be determined by the place where the crime occurred.”

Article 146 of the same Act stipulates that “should the court notice, at any stage of the proceedings, that it lacks jurisdiction to examine the case, it shall decide its incompetence even without any request to this effect.” ”.

كما قضت محكمة التمييز بأن “المواد 16، 18، 19، 20، 21، 22 من قانون العقوبات والمادة 142 من قانون العقوبات” قانون الإجراءات الجزائية  jointly refer to ‘unless otherwise stipulated in a special provision.’”

The courts are not competent to adjudicate offenses committed outside the territory of the state.

This does not change the fact that the legislator has expressed in article 16 of the Penal Code, “A crime shall be considered perpetrated in the territory of the State if any of its constituent acts occur therein,” as the goal of including this provision in the chapter of the law applicable in terms of place,

It means that the matter is related to the jurisdiction place of the state courts, and the courts may not consider the crimes committed outside the territory and therefore not apply the provisions of domestic law to that kind of crime.

If courts come to adjudicate a crime matter assigned to the accused party, although these crimes are approved to have occurred abroad, in cases other than those excluded, the courts will violate the rules of territorial jurisdiction.

(الطعن رقم 27/2000 الدائرة الجزائية: تاريخ 2000-04-08 – قاعدة 19، صادرة في العدد 11 لسنة 2000، الصفحة رقم 1193 – أحكام محكمة التمييز)

• كما قررت محكمة النقض ما يلي:
• جريمة المخدرات أو تعاطي المؤثرات العقلية هي جريمة مؤقتة تبدأ وتنتهي وقت التعاطي.
• This description is not affected by the continuing effect of the use of narcotic drugs.
• The Court of Cassation has ruled that “the crime of drug abuse is a temporary crime, not a continuing crime, because its material element is achieved at a specific moment of time and ends with the end of the act of abuse.
• This is not affected by the continuing effect of drug crime since the effect of the act is not to be considered in its legal adaptation.”
• Criminal Law (Appeal No. 1998/15, Penal Circuit: Date 20-06-1998 – rule 19, issued in edition No. 9, 1998, Page No. 1079 – Judgments of Court of Cassation)

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