Criminal Code Act 1995

Schedule - The Criminal Code  

Section 3

CHAPTER 9 - DANGERS TO THE COMMUNITY  

Part 9.1 - Serious drug offences  

Division 310 - Harm and danger to children under 14 from serious drug offences  

SECTION 310.2   Danger from exposure to unlawful manufacturing  

(1)    
A person commits an offence if:

(a) the person engages in conduct; and

(b) the conduct gives rise to a danger of serious harm to an individual; and

(c) the individual is under 14 years of age; and

(d) the danger exists because the individual is exposed to the manufacture of a controlled drug or a controlled precursor; and

(e) the manufacture is an offence against this Part, or would be an offence against this Part if the manufacture were for a commercial purpose (see section 305.2 ).

Penalty: Imprisonment for 9 years or 1,800 penalty units, or both.

Note:

A person can commit an offence against subsection (1) without being involved in the unlawful manufacture of controlled drugs or controlled precursors. The person need only expose a child under 14 to the danger of serious harm from such manufacture.

(2)    
Strict liability applies to paragraphs (1)(c) and (e).

(3)    
For the purposes of subsection (1), if a person ' s conduct exposes another person to the risk of catching a disease that may give rise to a danger of serious harm to the other person, the conduct is taken to give rise to a danger of serious harm to the other person.

(4)    
For the purposes of subsection (1), a person ' s conduct gives rise to a danger of serious harm if the conduct is ordinarily capable of creating a real, and not merely a theoretical, danger of serious harm.

(5)    
For the purposes of subsection (1), a person ' s conduct may give rise to a danger of serious harm whatever the statistical or arithmetical calculation of the degree of risk of serious harm involved.

(6)    
In a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1), it is not necessary to prove:

(a) that a person was actually placed in danger of serious harm by the conduct concerned; or

(b) that a particular person committed the offence mentioned in paragraph (1)(e).

(7)    
If, in a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1), the conduct of the defendant for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) is alleged to be an omission, the fault element for that omission is recklessness.