Victorian Numbered Acts

DRUGS, POISONS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENT ACT 2017 (NO. 40 OF 2017) - SECT 1

The purpose of this Act is to amend the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981 —

        (a)     to prohibit the production, sale and advertising of psychoactive substances; and

        (b)     to apply the search, seizure and forfeiture powers in Part VI of that Act and the forfeiture powers in section 77 of the Confiscation Act 1997 to psychoactive substances; and

        (c)     to add further drugs of dependence to Schedule Eleven to that Act; and

        (d)     to reduce the quantities of methylamphetamine that are treated as commercial quantities or large commercial quantities by that Act; and

        (e)     to authorise medical practitioners and nurse practitioners to administer, supply or prescribe a Schedule 8 poison to or for a person detained in a police gaol without a Schedule 8 permit.