(1) A person who organises or conducts, or assists in organising or
conducting, any drug premises is guilty of an offence.
: Maximum penalty--
(a)
for a first offence--50 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months (or both),
and
(b) for a second or subsequent offence--500 penalty units or imprisonment
for 5 years (or both).
(2) A person who organises or conducts, or assists in
organising or conducting, any drug premises is guilty of an offence if the
person knows that a child has access to the premises and, as a consequence of
that access, the child is exposed to--
(a) for a
first offence--60 penalty units or imprisonment for 14 months (or both), and
(b) for a second or subsequent offence--600 penalty units or imprisonment for
6 years (or both).
(3) For the purposes of this section, a person assists in
organising or conducting drug premises if, for example, the person acts as a
lookout, door attendant or guard in respect of any premises that are organised
or conducted as drug premises.
(4) It is a defence to a prosecution for an
offence under subsection (1) or (2) if the defendant establishes that he or
she did not know, and could not reasonably be expected to have known, that the
premises to which the charge relates were being organised or conducted as drug
premises.
(c) is satisfied that the defence referred to in
subsection (5) has been made out,
the jury may acquit the person of the
offence charged and find the person guilty of an offence under subsection (1)
and the person is liable to punishment accordingly.