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Public Health Act 1997
66JApproval—no liability for ancillary offences
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66J Approval—no liability for ancillary offences
(1) An approved person who supplies a syringe to another person is not,
only because of that supply, taken to commit any offence under or
because of the Criminal Code, part 2.4 (Extensions of criminal
responsibility) if—
(a) the supply is in the course of the professional practice or
occupational duties of the approved person; and
(b) the approved person has reasonable grounds for believing that—
(i) the syringe might be used for the purpose of the
administration to the other person of a controlled drug
under the Criminal Code, section 600; and
(ii) the supply of the syringe might assist in preventing the
spread of disease.
(2) A person who prints or publishes a notice, announcement or
advertisement in any form about the supply by an approved person of
syringes in the circumstances referred to in subsection (1) is not, only
because of that printing or publishing, taken to have committed any
offence under or because of the Criminal Code, part 2.4 (Extensions
of criminal responsibility).