POLICE POWERS (DRUG PREMISES) ACT 2001 - SECT 14 Offence of organising drug premises

This legislation has been repealed.

POLICE POWERS (DRUG PREMISES) ACT 2001 - SECT 14

14 Offence of organising drug premises

(1) A person must not organise or conduct, or assist in organising or conducting, any drug premises.

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) 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.

(3) A person is not guilty of an offence under this section of organising or conducting drug premises or of assisting in organising or conducting drug premises if the person satisfies the court that he or she did not know, and could not reasonably be expected to have known, that the premises were being organised or conducted as drug premises.