South Australian Current Acts

CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT 1984 - SECT 20

20—Prohibition of automatic vending machines

        (1)         A person must not—

            (a)         whether on premises of which the person is the owner or in any other place—

                  (i)         install an automatic vending machine for the sale or supply of a poison, medicine or medical device; or

                  (ii)         sell or supply a poison, medicine or medical device by means of an automatic vending machine; or

            (b)         permit or suffer any such vending machine to be installed or operated on premises of which he or she is the owner.

Maximum penalty: $5 000.

        (2)         This section does not apply to a poison, medicine or medical device prescribed, or of a class prescribed, by regulation or in circumstances prescribed by regulation.