Western Australian Current Acts

MISUSE OF DRUGS ACT 1981 - SECT 4

4 .         Drugs and plants to which Act applies

        (1)         Subject to subsection (4), the drugs to which this Act applies are —

            (a)         drugs of addiction; and

            (b)         specified drugs; and

            (c)         whether or not they are also drugs of addiction or specified drugs, the drugs specified in Schedule I.

        (2)         Subject to subsection (3), the plants to which this Act applies are —

            (a)         plants from which a drug of addiction may be obtained, derived or manufactured; and

            (b)         whether or not they are also plants referred to in paragraph (a), the plants specified in Schedule II.

        (3)         This Act does not apply to the non-viable seeds of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum .

        (4)         This Act does not apply to processed industrial hemp.

        [Section 4 amended: No. 1 of 2004 s. 51; No. 13 of 2014 s. 168.]