Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill

4 Powers of Minister to prohibit importation, etc, of controlled drugs

• (1) Section 22(1A) is amended by—

  • (a) omitting “import or supply” and substituting “importation, supply, possession for the purpose of sale or supply, or offering for sale”; and

  • (b) omitting “pipe or other utensil” and substituting “pipe, other utensil, or identifiable component of a pipe or other utensil”.

  (2) Section 22 is amended by repealing subsection (3) and substituting the following subsection:

  • “(3) Every person commits an offence against this Act who—

    • “(a) supplies, possesses for the purpose of sale or supply, or offers for sale a pipe, other utensil, or identifiable component of a pipe or other utensil whose sale, possession for the purpose of sale or supply, or offering for sale (as the case may be) is absolutely prohibited by a notice issued under subsection (1A); or

    • “(b) supplies, possesses for the purpose of sale or supply, or offers for sale a pipe, other utensil, or identifiable component of a pipe or other utensil otherwise than in accordance with any condition under which that pipe, other utensil, or identifiable component of a pipe or other utensil may, under a notice issued under subsection (1A), be supplied, possessed for the purpose of sale or supply, or offered for sale (as the case may be); or

    • “(c) imports a pipe, other utensil, or identifiable component of a pipe or other utensil otherwise than in accordance with any condition under which that pipe, other utensil, or identifiable component of a pipe or other utensil may, under a notice issued under subsection (1A), be imported.”