Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current ActsA person who, without being authorized by or licensed under this Act or the regulations to do so, cultivates or attempts to cultivate a narcotic plant in a quantity of a drug of dependence, being a narcotic plant, that is not less than the commercial quantity applicable to that narcotic plant is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to level 2 imprisonment (25 years maximum).
Note to s. 72A inserted by No. 65/2016 s. 21(4).
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An offence against this section is a category 2 offence under the Sentencing Act 1991 . See subsection (2H) of section 5 of that Act for the requirement to impose a custodial order for this offence unless the circumstances set out in paragraphs (a) to (e) of that subsection exist.
S. 72B inserted by No. 61/2001 s. 6, amended by Nos 20/2016 s. 131, 34/2019 s. 33.