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Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981
55MPolice discretions not affected
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55M Police discretions not affected
Nothing in section 55K affects any discretion a police officer may exercise in relation to not charging a person with an offence against Part V for possession of a drug of dependence which is an injecting centre drug in a permitted quantity of injecting centre drug when a person—
(a) is travelling to or from the licensed medically supervised injecting centre for the purposes of attending the centre; or
(b) is in the vicinity of the licensed medically supervised injecting centre for the purposes of attending the centre.
S. 55N inserted by No. 66/2017 s. 7.