Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 1998 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

MISUSE OF DRUGS AMENDMENT

ACT 1998

No. 3 of 1998

AN ACT to amend the Misuse of Drugs Act 1981.

[Assented to 26 March 1998.]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

Short title

1.   This Act may be cited as the Misuse of Drugs Amendment

Act 1998.

No. 3] Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 1998

s. 2

Commencement

2. This Act comes into operation on the day on which it

receives the Royal Assent.

Section 3 amended

3. Section 3 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1981* is amended by

inserting after the definition of ‘‘to possess’’ the following

definition —

‘‘

‘‘to supply’’ includes to deliver, dispense, distribute, forward, furnish, make available, provide, return or send, and it does not matter that something is supplied on behalf of another or on whose behalf it is supplied;

’’.

[* Reprinted as at 11 November 1996.]

By Authority: JOHN A. STRIJK, Government Printer