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Drink and Food Spiking Act commences tomorrow

Thu Mar 27 2008

The�Crimes Amendment (Drink and Food Spiking)�Act 2008 will commence�tomorrow, 28 March 2008. The�object of this Act is to amend the Crimes Act 1900�to create a new summary offence of spiking a person’s drink or food with an intoxicating substance with intent to harm the person (maximum penalty�two years imprisonment or $11,000 fine, or both), and�to ensure that other more serious related offences apply to the use of intoxicating substances (namely, using intoxicating substances to commit indictable offences, to endanger life, to inflict grievous bodily harm or to injure or cause distress or pain).

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6 March�2008

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