The Psychoactive Substances Act passed through parliament in July but police gave service stations, bottle stores and dairies 28 days to strip the products off their shelves.

 

Specialty stores had the same period to apply for an interim licence to sell the goods.

 

Now the law in is full effect any store owners caught selling the drugs illegally face a fine of up to $40,000 and up to three months in jail nu skin product.

 

A company found to be importing or manufacturing could be fined up to $500,000, with individuals spending up to two years behind bars.

 

Sales are restricted to those aged 18 and over, nuskin group advertising is banned outside stores and the products have strict labelling rules.

 

In the first month, both government and police reported a dramatic reduction in the number of retailers selling legal highs.

 

Residents of some towns, including the small Waikato community of Putaruru, banded together to ensure all its stores no longer sold the products.

 

New Zealand follows Australia's New South Wales which instituted a statewide ban on the drugs following the death of teenager Henry Kwan, nu skin hong kong who jumped to his death from a balcony after taking a drug bought online.

 

They immediately called the fire brigade who found the single-storey property well ablaze nu skin product.

 

The house was badly damaged in the fire but the residents escaped with minor smoke inhalation, nuskin a tribute to the benefits of a working smoke alarm, Southern Fire Communications shift manager Riwai Grace says.

 

"Apparently the alarm was only installed on Saturday in a local fire safety drive, which is just amazing," Mr Grace told NZ Newswire.

 

"The work those guys do really is incredible nuskin group. Two days earlier and those people wouldn't have had anything to wake them up. Who knows what would have happened so it's a very happy story indeed."

 

The blaze took firefighters two hours to extinguish, nu skin hk with the property left "severely damaged".

The 12-week-old pup called Milo was killed last night during a crime spree in Auckland suburb Glen Innes, when four homes were targeted nu skin product.

 

The incidents all occurred in the Torrington Crescent region between 9.05pm and 9.35pm.

 

Police say the owners are in various states of ‘shock and grief’ particularly a family of five who lost their ‘much loved’ puppy.

 

Two of the offenders broke into the family home and threatened the male resident before he retreated with his family to a secure room.

 

When he felt it was safe to emerge he discovered a grisly scene in the family lounge where their purebred brown puppy had been removed from his crate and slaughtered.

 

A 16 year-old youth was arrested near the scene after next door neighbours saw him running from the property nuskin.

 

The police tackled and detained him.

 

He will appear in the Auckland Youth Court on Thursday charged with two counts of unlawfully on property.

 

Police believe all four incidents are linked to the same offenders and are appealing for information from anyone not already spoken with about last night's events.

 

The first incident was an attempted burglary by one person nuskin group.

 

The offender was disturbed by two occupants while trying to break into their address and fled.

 

The offenders fled over the fence to the neighbours' property where they challenged the home owner, smashed through a glass door and subsequently killed Milo.

 

Early indications are that no property was stolen from that address which is home to the family of five, including three children aged nine nu skin hk, eight and four.

 

A short time later a woman arriving at her home in nearby Castledine Crescent was confronted by a young man who physically threatened her and subsequently stole her smart phone before fleeing over a fence.

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A report in the Irish Times yesterday had referred to the area as Minister James Reilly’s “political heartland” because the beneficiary – Beechpark Services – Art Culture is located next to his constituency.

 

Chief Operations Officer with the HSE told Morning Ireland that the funding was allocated on the basis of an agency report into autism services and needs.

 

“A review was carried out in 2011 in relation to the services provided by Beech Park because there were significant numbers of children waiting to access the service,” she said.

 

There are plans to allocate a further €300,000 of the €3 million to Kildare and Wicklow later this year, and following a review of disability services across the country, another €700,000 will be provided.

 

McGuinness reiterated concerns about the HSE’s current financial challenges, Limited company Hong Kong adding that it is necessary to commission reports to see how best scarce resources can be used across the country.

 

While former Minister of State at the Department of Health and Labour TD Róisín Shortall accepts that there was no political interference in this case, she has called for an end to “potential cronyism or secret decision-making around the spending of public money”.

 

“All of those decisions should be taken in an open and transparent manner,” she said this morning. “Nobody is denying there was a need for services in north Dublin. There were long waiting lists and it is only right and proper that necessary staff should be provided Asian college of knowledge management. But there are long waiting lists in other areas and you have to ask why it is that the money announced has not been spent.”

 

Minister Reilly announced the €3 million in extra funding for autism services in January 2012. So far, just 10 per cent of that money has been spent. According to Freedom of Information documents requested and obtained by the Irish Times, none of the €1 million allocated for 2012 was used last year.

 

According to Shortall, the announcement of the new monies raised people’s hopes “unfairly”.