Drug Misuse and Trafficking Amendment (Methylamphetamine) Regulation 2015 (NSW)

New South Wales

Drug Misuse and Trafficking Amendment

(Methylamphetamine) Regulation 2015

under the

Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following

Regulation under the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985.

GABRIELLE UPTON, MP

Attorney General

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to decrease, from one kilogram to half a kilogram, the threshold at which a quantity of the prohibited drug methylamphetamine (also known as “ice”) is considered a large commercial quantity for the purposes of the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985.
The maximum penalty for certain offences under that Act involving the manufacture, production or supply of a large commercial quantity of a prohibited drug is:

(a)	5,000 penalty units or imprisonment for life (or both), or
(b)	if the offence involves exposure of a child to the manufacture or production of the drug, or the procurement by an adult of a person under the age of 16 to supply the drug—6,000 penalty units or imprisonment for life (or both).

This Regulation is made under the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985, including sections 44 and 45 (the general regulation-making power).

Drug Misuse and Trafficking Amendment (Methylamphetamine) Regulation 2015 [NSW]

Drug Misuse and Trafficking Amendment (Methylamphetamine)

Regulation 2015

under the

Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Amendment
(Methylamphetamine) Regulation 2015.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

3 Amendment of Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985 No 226

Schedule 1

Omit “1.0kg” from Column 5 of the matter relating to Methylamphetamine.
Insert instead “0.5kg”.