Criminal Code Act 1995

Schedule - The Criminal Code  

Section 3

CHAPTER 9 - DANGERS TO THE COMMUNITY  

Part 9.1 - Serious drug offences  

Division 309 - Drug offences involving children  

SECTION 309.2   Supplying controlled drugs to children  

(1)    
A person commits an offence if:


(a) the person supplies a substance to an individual; and


(b) the individual is a child; and


(c) the substance is a controlled drug.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 15 years or 3,000 penalty units, or both.


(2)    
Strict liability applies to paragraph (1)(b).

(3)    
The fault element for paragraph (1)(c) is recklessness.





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