DRUGS, POISONS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT 1981 - SECT 54 Special regulations

DRUGS, POISONS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT 1981 - SECT 54

S. 54(1) amended by Nos 10002 s. 14(d), 81/1989 s. 3(Sch. item 10.2).

    (1)     Where in the interests of public safety it is expedient to provide for prohibiting controlling or regulating the putting or discharging or otherwise disposing of poisons or controlled substances or preparations thereof in on or into any road, street, channel, sewer, drain or waterway, the Governor in Council may make regulations for such purposes accordingly and may by those regulations impose penalties of not more than 50 penalty units for any breach of those regulations.

    (2)     This section shall be read and construed as in aid of and not in derogation from any other Acts or enactments relating to the subject-matter of subsection (1).

Division 17—Prohibition of poisons or controlled substances