DRUGS, POISONS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT 1981 - SECT 77 Forging prescriptions and orders for drugs of dependence
DRUGS, POISONS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT 1981 - SECT 77
Forging prescriptions and orders for drugs of dependence(1) A person shall not forge or attempt to forge or fraudulently alter or attempt to fraudulently alter or utter or attempt to utter knowing it to be forged or fraudulently altered a prescription or order for a drug of dependence.
Penalty: 20 penalty units or level 8 imprisonment (1 year maximum) or both.
S. 77(2) inserted by No. 20/2016 s. 136, repealed by No. 34/2019 s. 38.
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S. 78 substituted by No. 10002 s. 7(1), amended by No. 48/1997 s. 41(9).