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MISUSE OF DRUGS ACT 1981 - SECT 19B

19B .         Selling ice pipes

        (1)         In this section —

        child means a person who is under 18 years of age;

        ice pipe means —

            (a)         a device capable of being used for the administration of a prohibited drug by means of the inhaling of the smoke or fumes resulting from the heating or burning of the drug in a crystal, powder, oil or base form; or

            (b)         a device that is apparently intended to be such a device but is not capable of being so used because it needs an adjustment, modification or addition,

        but does not include a device prescribed, or belonging to a class prescribed, for the purposes of this definition.

        (2)         A person who sells, or offers to sell, an ice pipe to a child commits a simple offence.

        Penalty: a fine of $24 000 or imprisonment for 2 years or both.

        (3)         A person —

            (a)         who sells, or offers to sell, an ice pipe to a person other than a child; or

            (b)         who displays an ice pipe, or authorises or allows an ice pipe to be displayed, for sale in a shop or other retail outlet,

                commits a simple offence.

        Penalty: a fine of $10 000.

        [Section 19B inserted by No. 50 of 2010 s. 4.]



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