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DRUGS MISUSE ACT 1986 - SECT 6

6 Supplying dangerous drugs

(1) A person who unlawfully supplies a dangerous drug to another, whether or not such other person is in Queensland, is guilty of a crime.

Maximum penalty--

(a) if the dangerous drug is a thing specified in the Drugs Misuse Regulation 1987, schedule 1 and the offence is one of aggravated supply--25 years imprisonment;
(b) if the dangerous drug is a thing specified in the Drugs Misuse Regulation 1987, schedule 1 and paragraph (a) does not apply--20 years imprisonment;
(c) if the dangerous drug is a thing specified in the Drugs Misuse Regulation 1987, schedule 2 and the offence is one of aggravated supply--20 years imprisonment;
(d) if the dangerous drug is a thing specified in the Drugs Misuse Regulation 1987, schedule 2 and paragraph (c) does not apply--15 years imprisonment.

(2) For the purposes of this section, an offence is one of aggravated supply if the offender is an adult and--

(a) the person to whom the thing is supplied is a minor; or
(b) the person to whom the thing is supplied is an intellectually impaired person; or
(c) the person to whom the thing is supplied is within an educational institution; or
(d) the person to whom the thing is supplied is within a correctional facility; or
(e) the person to whom the thing is supplied does not know he or she is being supplied with the thing.


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