Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) A person commits an offence if—
(a) the person possesses a thing; and
(b) the thing is a tablet press; and
(c) the person is reckless about whether the thing is a tablet press.
Maximum penalty: 200 penalty units, imprisonment for 2 years or both.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person has a reasonable excuse for possessing the tablet press.
Examples—reasonable excuse
1 to manufacture a regulated substance in accordance with authorisation under the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2008
2 to supply a regulated therapeutic good in accordance with authorisation under the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2008
3 to give the tablet press to a person authorised under the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2008
to manufacture a regulated substance or to supply a regulated therapeutic good
Note The defendant has an evidential burden in relation to the matters mentioned in s (2) (see s 58).
(3) In this section:
"tablet press "means an instrument or machine that may be used to manufacture
a controlled drug in tablet form.