75DE
CurrentMistaken belief about prescribed illicit drug is not defence
Part 3ASafe navigation of vessels, and alcohol and drug related offences
Division 4Navigation of vessels with particular BAC or prescribed illicit drug present
75DE Mistaken belief about prescribed illicit drug is not defence
It is not a defence to a charge of an offence against section 75DB(1), 75DC(1) or 75DD(1) that the person charged took a prescribed illicit drug mistakenly believing it to be another drug if that other drug is also —
(a)
a drug to which the Misuse of Drugs Act 1981 applies; or
(b)
a Schedule 4 poison as defined in the Medicines and Poisons Act 2014 section 3.
[Section 75DE inserted: No. 31 of 2023 s. 14(2).]
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