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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 13 Hansard (9 December) . . Page.. 4218 ..
MR STANHOPE (Leader of the Opposition) (11.41): I move:
That the following new clauses were inserted in the Bill: Page 4, line 13:
"8A Things not permitted by this Act
This Act does not permit-
(a) the members of the staff of the facility to sell or possess or use a substance in the facility; or
(b) a drug dependent person to sell or supply a substance in the facility; or
(c) a drug dependent person to possess in the facility more than 0.5 grams of a substance; or
(d) a drug dependent person to possess a substance outside the facility.
8B Provision of injecting equipment at facility
Despite any other provision of this Act or of another law of the Territory, it is lawful for a member of the staff of the facility to provide, at the facility, sterile equipment to another person for use by the other person, at the facility, to self-administer a substance, if the other person-(a) agrees to return the equipment after use for safe disposal; and
(b) unless the member of the staff knows, or reasonably believes, that the other person has previously administered a substance to himself or herself-the other person has been offered counselling or rehabilitation or medical services at the facility.
8C Provision of information about the facility
Despite any other provision of this Act or of another law of the Territory, it is lawful for a person to give, for the purposes of this Act, information about the operation of the facility to-(a) the Legislative Assembly or a committee of the Assembly; or
(b) the Minister or a public employee acting in the course of his or her duties on behalf of a Minister; or
(c) the advisory committee; or
(d) a person appointed in writing by the Minister to review the effectiveness of the facility in meeting the relevant objectives of this Act.".
Proposed new clause 8A details things that are not permitted to be done by this legislation. It sets out explicitly that the legislation does not permit the members of the staff of the facility to sell or possess or use a substance in the facility. It does not permit a drug dependent person to sell or supply a substance in the facility. It sets out the
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