Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

DRUGS OF DEPENDENCE (AMENDMENT) ACT (NO. 31 OF 1995) - SECT 5

5. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in subsection (1) the following definition:“ ‘treatment', in relation to the treatment of a person for drug dependence, means treatment, therapy or a program which is aimed at assisting the person in relation to that dependence, and includes—

        (a)     medical treatment or therapy or an education or rehabilitation program; and

        (b)     in relation to the treatment of a person with methadone at a methadone program treatment centre—

              (i)     the administration of methadone to the person at the centre; or

              (ii)     the supply of methadone to the person at the centre for self-administration at the centre or elsewhere;”.