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DRUGS, POISONS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT 1981 - SECT 56F

Offence to advertise psychoactive substance

    (1)     A person must not display or cause or permit to be displayed on or inside a public place or a vehicle or vessel that is in a public place an advertisement that the person intends as a promotion of the consumption, sale or supply of a psychoactive substance or psychoactive substances generally.

Penalty:     In the case of a natural person, 240 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years or both;

    In the case of a body corporate, 1200 penalty units.

    (2)     A person must not display or cause or permit
to be displayed on or inside a public place or a vehicle or vessel that is in a public place an advertisement if the person knows that there is a substantial risk that the consumption, sale or supply of a psychoactive substance or psychoactive substances generally may be promoted by that advertisement.

Penalty:     In the case of a natural person, 240 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years or both;

    In the case of a body corporate, 1200 penalty units.

Pt 4 (Heading and ss 5762) substituted as Pt 4 (Heading and ss 5760) by No. 10002 s. 6(1)(a)(b).

Pt 4 (Heading) amended by No. 55/2003 ss 3(1).

Part IV—Deleterious substances and search, seizure and detention powers relating to volatile substances

Pt 4 Div. 1 (Heading) inserted by No. 55/2003 s. 3(2).

Division 1—Deleterious substances

S. 57 substituted by No. 10002 s. 6(1)(b).



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