Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current ActsS. 71E(1) amended by No. 34/2019 s. 29.
(1) A person who, without being authorised by or licensed under this Act or the regulations to do so or otherwise without a reasonable excuse, possesses a document containing instructions for the trafficking or cultivation of a drug of dependence is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to a penalty of not more than 600 penalty units or level 6 imprisonment (5 years maximum) or both.
Note
See the definition of document in section 38 of the
Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984 . See the definition of
"traffick" in this Part which includes manufacturing a drug of dependence and
also
section 71(2).
(2) Section 104 does not apply to an offence against this section.
S. 71F inserted by No. 2/2016 s. 10, amended by No. 20/2016 s. 128.