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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
House of Assembly—No 63
As laid on the table and read a first time,
Criminal
Law Consolidation (Drink Spiking) Amendment Bill 2006
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Criminal Law Consolidation
Act 1935.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Criminal
Law Consolidation Act 1935
4 Insertion of Part 3 Division 7C
Division 7C—Food and beverage
spiking
32C Spiking of food
or beverages
The Parliament of
This Act may be cited as the Criminal Law Consolidation (Drink
Spiking) Amendment Act 2006.
This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by
proclamation.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the
amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment of Criminal Law Consolidation
Act 1935
4—Insertion of Part 3 Division 7C
After section 32B insert:
Division 7C—Food
and beverage spiking
32C—Spiking
of food or beverages
(1) A person is guilty of an offence if the
person adds a substance, or causes a substance to be added, to any food or
beverage intending to cause, or being recklessly indifferent as to causing,
impairment of the consciousness or bodily function of another who will or might
consume the food or beverage without knowledge of the presence of the substance
(whether at all or in the quantity added).
Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 3 years.
(2) In this section—
food or beverage includes any solid or liquid substance prepared or intended for human consumption.