Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) The Attorney-General must give such directions to the DPP under the Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1990, section 20 (1) as are necessary to ensure that drug-dependent people are not deterred by fear of prosecution for an offence from making use of the facility in accordance with the object of this Act.
(2) The directions for subsection (1) must include, but are not limited to, a direction stating circumstances in which the DPP is restrained from prosecuting a person who administers a substance to himself or herself at the facility for an offence against—
(a) the Drugs of Dependence Act 1989 , section 169 (Possessing drugs of dependence) or section 171 (Possessing prohibited substances); or
(b) the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2008 , section 36 (Possessing certain declared substances) or section 37 (Administering certain declared substances).