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MISUSE OF DRUGS ACT 1990 - SECT 11E

Record and warning of first finding of dangerous drugs on premises

    (1)     A police officer may make a record in the prescribed form of a dangerous drug being found by the officer at residential premises.

    (2)     A police officer may serve notice in the prescribed form on each owner, landlord and tenant of residential premises in relation to which a record has been made under subsection (1) if the officer has a reasonable belief that a dangerous drug has been supplied at or from the premises.

    (3)     A police officer may make a record in the prescribed form of a dangerous drug being found by the officer at commercial or liquor licence premises:

        (a)     apparently in the possession of an owner, landlord or tenant of the commercial or liquor licence premises or a person employed by or acting for and on behalf of an owner, landlord or tenant of the premises; or

        (b)     in a room in the premises to which only an owner, landlord or tenant of the premises, or a person employed by or acting for and on behalf of an owner, landlord or tenant of the premises, has access.

    (4)     A police officer may serve notice in the prescribed form on:

        (a)     the licensee of liquor licence premises in relation to which a record has been made under subsection (3) or a person who is taken under the Liquor Act 2019 to be a licensee of the premises for the purpose of that Act; and

        (b)     each owner, landlord and tenant of premises in relation to which a record has been made under subsection (3),

if the officer has a reasonable belief that a dangerous drug has been supplied at or from the premises.



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