CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT 1984 - SECT 33K

CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT 1984 - SECT 33K

33K—Cultivation of controlled plants

        (1)         A person who—

            (a)         cultivates a controlled plant (other than a cannabis plant); or

            (ab)         cultivates a cannabis plant by artificially enhanced cultivation; or

            (b)         cultivates more than the prescribed number of cannabis plants; or

            (c)         cultivates a cannabis plant intending to supply the plant or to supply or administer any product of the plant to another person,

is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty:

            (a)         for a basic offence—

                  (i)         if the offender is a serious drug offender—$5 000 or imprisonment for 5 years, or both; or

                  (ii)         in any other case—$2 000 or imprisonment for 2 years, or both;

            (b)         for an aggravated offence—$5 000 or imprisonment for 5 years, or both.

        (2)         A person who cultivates not more than the prescribed number of cannabis plants is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: $2 000 or imprisonment for 2 years, or both.

        (3)         A court sentencing a person for an offence against subsection (2) that is a simple cannabis offence (within the meaning of section 45A) must not impose any sentence of imprisonment in relation to the offence.