Western Australian Consolidated Acts

MISUSE OF DRUGS ACT 1981 - SECT 8

8 .         Fraudulent behaviour in relation to prohibited drugs

        (1)         A person who forges or fraudulently alters, or utters knowing it to be forged or fraudulently altered, a prescription or order for a prohibited drug commits a simple offence.

        (2)         A person who by any false representation, whether oral or in writing or otherwise, causes or induces — 

            (a)         a person licensed under the Poisons Act 1964 to manufacture, sell or supply any prohibited drug; or

            (b)         a medical practitioner, nurse practitioner or dentist,

                to administer or supply to him by injection or otherwise a prohibited drug commits a simple offence.

        [Section 8 amended by No. 9 of 2003 s. 30.]