Rusiecki v WA

• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Drug offences
  3. › Prohibited drug
  4. › Whether methylamphetamine was a prohibited drug at time of offence
  5. › Construction of definition incorporating Commonwealth Poisons Standard by reference
  6. › Misuse of Drugs Act 1981 (WA), ss 3, 4(1), 6(1)
  7. › Medicines and Poisons Act 2014 (WA), ss 3, 4, 132
  8. › Medicines and Poisons Regulations 2016 (WA), regs 3, 6
• 1. Statutory Interpretation
  2. › Adoption of codes by reference
  3. › Ambulatory incorporation
  4. › Whether reference to 'Schedule 1 of the current Poisons Standard' adopted substantive content as in force from time to time regardless of format changes
  5. › Medicines and Poisons Act 2014 (WA), s 132
  6. › Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 (Cth), ss 52A, 52D
• 1. Statutory Interpretation
  2. › Purposive construction
  3. › Inconvenience and improbability of result
  4. › Whether literal interpretation producing result that no substances classified as prohibited drugs should be rejected in favour of construction conforming to legislative purpose
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Retrospective criminal legislation
  3. › Validation legislation
  4. › Whether validation Act applies to sustain conviction entered prior to enactment
  5. › Whether validation Act deprives accused of right to have wrongful conviction set aside
  6. › Medicines and Poisons (Validation) Act 2022 (WA), s 4

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