Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 2002 - SECT 631

    (1)     This section applies if a person is charged with a single offence against this chapter that involves—

        (a)     trafficking in 2 or more kinds of controlled drug; or

        (b)     manufacturing 2 or more kinds of controlled drug; or

        (c)     selling 2 or more kinds of controlled precursor; or

        (d)     manufacturing 2 or more kinds of controlled precursor; or

        (e)     possessing 2 or more kinds of controlled precursor; or

        (f)     cultivating 2 or more kinds of controlled plant; or

        (g)     selling 2 or more kinds of controlled plant; or

        (h)     supplying 2 or more kinds of controlled drug to a child.

    (2)     In a prosecution for the single offence—

        (a)     the quantity of drugs or plants is a trafficable quantity if the total of the required fractions of the trafficable quantity of each of the drugs or plants is 1 or more; or

        (b)     the quantity of drugs, precursors or plants is a commercial quantity if the total of the required fractions of the commercial quantity of each of the drugs, precursors or plants is 1 or more; or

        (c)     the quantity of drugs, precursors or plants is a large commercial quantity if the total of the required fractions of the large commercial quantity of each of the drugs, precursors or plants is 1 or more.

    (3)     In this section, the required fraction of—

        (a)     a trafficable quantity of a drug or plant is the actual quantity of the drug or plant divided by the smallest trafficable quantity of the drug or plant; and

        (b)     a commercial quantity of a controlled drug, precursor or plant is the actual quantity of the drug, precursor or plant divided by the smallest commercial quantity of the drug, precursor or plant; and

        (c)     a large commercial quantity of a controlled drug, precursor or plant is the actual quantity of the drug, precursor or plant divided by the smallest large commercial quantity of the drug, precursor or plant.

    (4)     For a trafficable, commercial or large commercial quantity of a controlled drug—

        (a)     the required fraction must be worked out on the basis of quantities of the drug in pure form; and

        (b)     the required fraction is zero if—

              (i)     a regulation does not prescribe a trafficable, commercial or large commercial quantity of the controlled drug; or

              (ii)     a regulation prescribes a trafficable, commercial or large commercial quantity for a mixture of substances containing the controlled drug but not for the drug in pure form; or

              (iii)     a regulation prescribes different forms of the controlled drug by reference to the percentage of a particular substance in the drug.