Sale or supply of volatile solvents
19 Sale or supply of volatile solvents
A person must not sell or supply a volatile solvent to another person if he or she suspects, or there are reasonable grounds for suspecting, that the other person—
intends to inhale the solvent; or
intends to sell or supply the solvent to a further person for inhalation by that further person. Maximum penalty: Maximum penalty: $10 000 or imprisonment for 2 years.
If a person, acting at the request of another person, purchases a volatile solvent on behalf of the other person for the purpose of inhalation, the person is guilty of an offence. Maximum penalty: Maximum penalty: $10 000 or imprisonment for 2 years.
A person must not sell or supply a volatile solvent to which this subsection applies to a person under the age prescribed for the volatile solvent. Maximum penalty: Maximum penalty: $10 000.
Subsection (3) applies to such volatile solvents as may be prescribed, individually or by class, by the regulations.
An authorised officer may confiscate a volatile solvent (together with its container) found in the possession of a person if the authorised officer has reason to suspect that the person has the solvent for the purpose of inhalation.
Anything confiscated under subsection (5) is forfeited to the Crown and may be sold, destroyed or otherwise disposed of as the Minister or the Commissioner of
Police directs.
This provision refers to the regulations (the regulations
). Made under this Act:
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