Title: Controlled Substances (Possession of Prescribed Equipment)Amendment Bill 2007
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Category: royal.arms.unofficial
Document comments: lc83

House of Assembly
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Controlled Substances (Possession of Prescribed Equipment) Amendment Bill 2007

Controlled Substances (Possession of Prescribed Equipment) Amendment Bill 2007
Part 1—Preliminary

Controlled Substances (Possession of Prescribed Equipment) Amendment Bill 2007
Preliminary—Part 1

Controlled Substances (Possession of Prescribed Equipment) Amendment Bill 2007
Part 2—Amendment of Controlled Substances Act 1984

Controlled Substances (Possession of Prescribed Equipment) Amendment Bill 2007
Amendment of Controlled Substances Act 1984—Part 2

South Australia
Controlled Substances (Possession of Prescribed Equipment) Amendment Bill 2007
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Controlled Substances Act 1984.

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Short title
2	Commencement
3	Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Controlled Substances Act 1984
4	Insertion of section 33LA
33LA	Possession of prescribed equipment
5	Amendment of section 63—Regulations

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Controlled Substances (Possession of Prescribed Equipment) Amendment Act 2007.
2—Commencement
This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation.
3—Amendment provisions
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2—Amendment of Controlled Substances Act 1984
4—Insertion of section 33LA
After section 33L insert:
33LA—Possession of prescribed equipment
	(1)	A person who, without reasonable excuse (proof of which lies on the person), has possession of any prescribed equipment is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: $10 000 or imprisonment for 2 years, or both.
	(2)	In this section—
prescribed equipment means—
	(a)	a document containing instructions for the manufacture of a controlled drug or the cultivation of a controlled plant; or
	(b)	equipment of a kind prescribed by regulation.
5—Amendment of section 63—Regulations
Section 63(2)— after "this Act" insert:
(other than a regulation proposed to be made under section 33LA)

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