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MISUSE OF DRUGS ACT 1990 - SECT 11G

Record and warning of third finding of dangerous drug 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 on the second or any subsequent separate occasion within 12 months after a record is made under section 11E(1) in relation to the premises (the third or subsequent finding of a dangerous drug).

    (2)     A police officer may serve notice in the prescribed form on each owner, landlord or 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 on the second or any subsequent separate occasion within 12 months after a record is made under section 11E(3) in relation to the premises (the third or subsequent finding of a dangerous drug).

    (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 commercial premises, or liquor licence 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.

    (5)     The form prescribed for the purposes of subsections (2) and (4) is to contain a warning of the third or subsequent finding of a dangerous drug on the premises to which the form relates and that a drug premises order may be made under this Division in relation to the premises.



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