Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 2002 - SECT 625

    (1)     A person commits an offence if the person—

        (a)     supplies a controlled drug other than cannabis to a child; or

        (b)     possesses a controlled drug other than cannabis with the intention of supplying it to a child.

Maximum penalty: 2 000 penalty units, imprisonment for 20 years or both.

    (2)     A person commits an offence if the person—

        (a)     supplies a trafficable quantity of cannabis to a child; or

        (b)     possesses a trafficable quantity of cannabis with the intention of supplying it to a child.

Maximum penalty: 1 000 penalty units, imprisonment for 10 years or both.

    (3)     Absolute liability applies to the circumstance that the quantity supplied or possessed was a trafficable quantity.

    (4)     A person commits an offence if the person—

        (a)     supplies cannabis to a child; or

        (b)     possesses cannabis with the intention of supplying it to a child.

Maximum penalty: 500 penalty units, imprisonment for 5 years or both.

    (5)     For this section, absolute liability applies to the circumstance that the person to whom the drug was supplied, or intended to be supplied, was a child.

    (6)     It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against this section if the defendant proves that the defendant—

        (a)     considered whether or not the person to whom the controlled drug was supplied or intended to be supplied was a child; and

        (b)     had no reasonable grounds for believing that the person was a child.