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SUPERVISED INJECTING PLACE TRIAL ACT 1999 - SECT 15

Provision of injecting equipment at facility

Despite any other provision of this Act or of another Territory law, it is lawful for a member of the staff of the facility to provide, at the facility, sterile equipment to another person for use by the other person, at the facility, to self-administer a substance, if the other person—

        (a)     agrees to return the equipment after use for safe disposal; and

        (b)     unless the member of the staff knows, or reasonably believes, that the other person has previously administered a substance to himself or herself—the other person has been offered counselling or rehabilitation or medical services at the facility.



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