Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A seller must not sell a potentially harmful thing to another person if the seller knows or believes, on reasonable grounds, that the other person--
(a) intends to inhale or ingest the thing; or
(b) intends to sell the thing to another person for inhalation or ingestion whether by that person or someone else.
Maximum penalty--
(a) for a first offence--25 penalty units or 3 months imprisonment; or
(b) for a second or later offence--50 penalty units or 1 year's imprisonment.
(2) For the purposes of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991, section 46, a seller is not to be taken to discriminate against a person only because the seller refuses to sell a potentially harmful thing to the person because of subsection (1).
(3) In this section--
potentially harmful thing--
(a) means a thing a person may lawfully possess that is or contains a substance that may be harmful to a person if ingested or inhaled; and
Examples--
glue
paint
a solvent
(b) includes methylated spirits; and
(c) does not include a thing intended by its manufacturer to be inhaled or ingested by a person using it.