Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) Subject to subsection (2), a person who attends a drug ‑ checking place as a client is authorised, at that place, to do the following things—
(a) to possess a poison, controlled substance or drug of dependence;
(b) to supply a poison, controlled substance or drug of dependence to—
(i) the holder of the drug ‑ checking permit for that drug ‑ checking place; or
(ii) a special drug ‑ checking worker engaged by the holder of the permit;
(c) to receive and possess a poison, controlled substance or drug of dependence supplied to the person as authorised by section 20AA(1)(b).
(2) Subsection (1) does not authorise a person to possess or supply a drug of dependence in a quantity that is, or is greater than, the traffickable quantity (within the meaning of Part V) applicable to that drug of dependence.
(3) A person who is authorised to do a particular thing by subsection (1) is exempt from liability for an offence against Part V or the regulations which is constituted by the doing of that thing.
(4) Nothing in this section exempts any person from, or otherwise affects, any condition or obligation imposed—
(a) by or under any order of, or undertaking given to, a court or tribunal; or
(b) by or under any Act or law other than this Act.
(5) Without limiting subsection (4), the conditions and obligations referred to in that subsection include conditions and obligations under—
(a) a sentencing order under the Sentencing Act 1991 ; or
(b) a correctional order within the meaning of the Corrections Act 1986 ; or
(c) a bail undertaking within the meaning of the Bail Act 1977 ; or
(d) an order under the Crimes (Mental Impairment and Unfitness to be Tried) Act 1997 ; or
(e) an order under the Serious Offenders Act 2018 ; or
(f) a prescribed law, or an instrument of a prescribed class.
S. 22CE inserted by No. 41/2024 s. 10.