Title: Controlled Substances (Destruction of Seized Property) AmendmentBill 2024
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Last saved by: Homfray, Samantha (AGD)
Category: royal.arms.unofficial
Document comments: lc138

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Controlled Substances (Destruction of Seized Property) Amendment Bill 2024

Controlled Substances (Destruction of Seized Property) Amendment Bill 2024
Part 1—Preliminary

Controlled Substances (Destruction of Seized Property) Amendment Bill 2024
Preliminary—Part 1

Controlled Substances (Destruction of Seized Property) Amendment Bill 2024
Part 2—Amendment of Controlled Substances Act 1984

Controlled Substances (Destruction of Seized Property) Amendment Bill 2024
Amendment of Controlled Substances Act 1984—Part 2

Controlled Substances (Destruction of Seized Property) Amendment Bill 2024
Schedule 1—Transitional provision

Controlled Substances (Destruction of Seized Property) Amendment Bill 2024
Transitional provision—Schedule 1

South Australia
Controlled Substances (Destruction of Seized Property) Amendment Bill 2024
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Controlled Substances Act 1984.

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Short title
Part 2—Amendment of Controlled Substances Act 1984
2	Amendment of section 52E—Seized property and forfeiture
Schedule 1—Transitional provision
1	Equipment seized prior to commencement

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Controlled Substances (Destruction of Seized Property) Amendment Act 2024.

Part 2—Amendment of Controlled Substances Act 1984
2—Amendment of section 52E—Seized property and forfeiture
	(1)	Section 52E(2)—after paragraph (b) insert:
		or
	(c)	is prescribed equipment for the purposes of section 33LA that is, or may at some stage have been, capable of being used for hydroponic cannabis cultivation,
	(2)	Section 52E(4)—delete "subsection (2)" and substitute:
subsection (2)(a) or (b)
	(3)	Section 52E(6a)—after "Police" insert:
(including, without limitation, the costs of the Commissioner of Police, or a person acting at the direction of the Commissioner of Police, collecting, transporting and dismantling the property as may reasonably be required for the purposes of destroying the property) provided that such costs may not exceed the maximum amount (if any) prescribed by the regulations

Schedule 1—Transitional provision
1—Equipment seized prior to commencement
	(1)	Subject to subclause (2), section 52E of the Controlled Substances Act 1984 as amended by this Act applies in relation to any equipment of a kind referred to in section 52E(2)(c) that is in the possession of the Commissioner of Police on or after the commencement of this Act (whether the equipment was seized before or after that commencement).
	(2)	Section 52E(6a) does not apply to equipment of a kind referred to in section 52E(2)(c) that was seized before the commencement of this Act.

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