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DRUGS, POISONS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT 1981 - SECT 12J What if documents are not notified or made available?

DRUGS, POISONS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT 1981 - SECT 12J

What if documents are not notified or made available?

    (1)     A failure to comply with section 12G, 12H or 12I does not affect the validity, operation or effect of the Poisons Code or any matter incorporated in it.

    (2)     Despite subsection (1), a person must not be convicted of an offence against this Act or the regulations, based on any provision in the Poisons Code if, at the time of the commission of the offence, there was, in relation to that provision, a contravention of section 12G or 12I.

    (3)     Despite subsection (1), a person is not prejudicially affected or made subject to any liability under this Act or the regulations based on any provision in the Poisons Code, if it is proved that, at the relevant time, in relation to that provision there was a contravention of section 12G or 12I.

S. 12K inserted by No. 42/1993 s. 38.