Cannabis Control Act 2003 (WA)

Western Australia

This Act was repealed by the Cannabis Control Reform Act 2010 s. 3(a) (No. 45 of 2010) as at 1 Aug 2011 (see s. 2(b) and Gazette 29 Jul 2011 p. 3127).

Western Australia

Cannabis Control Act 2003

An Act —

• •

  to allow infringement notices to be issued for certain minor offences relating to cannabis;

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  to regulate the sale of cannabis smoking paraphernalia; and

• •

  to amend the Misuse of Drugs Act 1981,

and for related purposes.

This Act may be cited as the Cannabis Control Act 2003 1.

This Act comes into operation on a day fixed by proclamation 1.

• (1)

  This Act is to be read as one with the Misuse of Drugs Act 1981.

• (2)

  Without limiting subsection (1), unless the contrary intention appears, a word or an expression defined in section 3(1) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1981 and used in this Act has the same meaning as it has in that Act.

In this Part —

authorised person in section 8(4)(b)(i), 11(1) or 12(1) means a person appointed under section 16 by the Commissioner to be an authorised person for the purposes of the section in which the term is used;

CES means a cannabis education session —

• (a)

  with a content approved under section 17(2)(a); and

• (b)

  provided by a person approved under section 17(2)(b);

CIN means a cannabis infringement notice given under section 5(1), 6(1) or 7(1).

• (1)

  A police officer, other than a police officer who is an authorised person for the purposes of section 8(4)(b)(i), 11(1) or 12(1), who has reason to believe that a person who has reached 18 years of age has committed an offence under section 5(1)(d)(i) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1981 may, subject to subsection (2), within 21 days after the alleged offence is believed to have been committed, give a cannabis infringement notice to the alleged offender.

• (2)

  A CIN may be issued under subsection (1) if, and only if, the alleged offence involves cannabis.

• (1)

  A police officer, other than a police officer who is an authorised person for the purposes of section 8(4)(b)(i), 11(1) or 12(1), who has reason to believe that a person who has reached 18 years of age has committed an offence under section 6(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1981 may, subject to subsection (2), within 21 days after the alleged offence is believed to have been committed, give a cannabis infringement notice to the alleged offender.

• (2)

  A CIN may be issued under subsection (1) if, and only…