Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) An undercover
officer who is not a police officer commits a simple offence if, after having
been warned under subsection (2), the officer acquires a prohibited drug or
prohibited plant while acting in the course of an undercover operation and
does not deliver the prohibited drug or prohibited plant to a police officer
as soon as is reasonably practicable after that acquisition.
(2) The Commissioner
must warn in writing an undercover officer who is not a police officer that
if, having acquired a prohibited drug or prohibited plant whilst acting in the
course of an undercover operation, that undercover officer does not deliver
the prohibited drug or prohibited plant to a police officer as soon as is
reasonably practicable after that acquisition, that undercover officer commits
a simple offence under subsection (1).
[Section 31 inserted: No. 55 of 2012 s. 120.]