011 Flashcards
Imports/exports
Sec 6(1)(a) MODA 1975 Life imprisonment -imports into OR -exports from nz -any controlled drugs (other than a controlled drug specified or describes in part 6 of schedule 3 to this act)
Produce or Manufacture any controlled drug
Sec 6(1)(b) MODA 1975 Life/14years/8 years imprisonment
- produce or manufacture
- Any controlled drug
Supply/Administer/offer to supply or administer class a or B
Sec 6 (1)(c) MODA 1975 Life/14 years imprisonment
- Supplies or
- Administers or
- Offers to supply or
- Offers to administer
- Any class A or B controlled drug
- To any other person OR
- Otherwise deals in such a drug
Supply/administer/offer class c controlled drug to person under 18
Sec6(1)(d) MODA 1975 8 years imprisonment
- Supplies OR
- Administers OR
- Offers to supply OR
- Offers to administer OR
- Class C controlled drug
- To any person under 18 years of age
Sells/offers to sell class C controlled drug to person of or over 18
Sec 6(1)(e) MODA 1975 8 years imprisonment
- Sells OR
- Offers to sell
- Class C controlled drug
- To any person of or over 18 years of age
Possession of a controlled Drug for supply/administer/sell/offer
Sec 6(1)(f) MODA 1975 Life/14 years/ 8 years
- Has in his possession
- Any controlled drug
- For any purposes set out in para. (c), (d) or (e):
(c) supply administer etc any class A or B
(d) supply, administer, offer to supply or administer class C (under 18)
(e) sell, offer to sell, class C or or over 18
Sec 6(2)(a) Conspiracy
- Anyone who
- Conspires with any other person to commit an offence against subsection (1) of this section is liable :
(a) 14 years (Class a)
(b) 10 years (class B)
(c) 7 years any other case
An agreed intention
Define import
Sec 2 Customs and Exercise Act 1996
a) In relation to any goods, means the arrival of the goods in NZ in any manner, whether lawfully or unlawfully from a point outside NZ
Saxton v Police
To import includes “to introduce from abroad or to cause to be brought in from a foreign country
Importing Process
- Offence complete even if drugs are intercepted by customs and never reach the addressee (intended recipient)
- However offence doesn’t end at border continues while goods are in transit and only concludes when they have reaches their final destination and are available to the consignee.
***R V Hancox
- The bringing of goods into the country or causing them to be brought into the country does not cease as the aircraft or vessel enters NZ territorial limits
- Importing in to NZ for the purposes of 6(1)(a) is a process- the element of importing.
The element of importing exist from the time the goods enter nz until they reach the immediate destination… (ie) when they have ceased to be under the control of the appropriate authorities and have become available to the consignee or addresses
Must prove guilty knowledge (mens Rea)
Import/export/supply/administer/offer/sell/produce/manufacture
This will include proof that the Defendant..
- Knew about the Import/export/supply/administer/offer/sell/produce/manufacture
- AND
- Knew the Imported/exported/supplied/administered/offered/sold/produced/manufactured substance was a controlled drug
- AND
- Intended to cause the Import/export/supply/administer/offer/sell/produce/manufacture
*includes wilful blindness
Export
For the purpose of this act, the time of exportation is the time when the exporting craft leave the last customs place at which the craft calls immediately before proceeding to a point outside of nz
Sec 53 customs and Excise Act 1996
Controlled Drug
Sec 2 MODA 1795
- Means any substance, preparation, mixture or article specified or describes in schedule 1,2,3 of this act and includes any controlled drug analogue
Controlled drug analogue
- Any substance eg as specified in part 7, schedule 3
- With a structure substantially similar to a controlled drug but does not include:
- Any substance specified/described in schedule 1 or 2 or Part 1-6 of Schedule 3 OR
- Pharmacy only medicine
- Approved psychoactive substance
Class A Controlled drug
As specified /described in schedule 1 to this act
- Heroin
- Cocaine
- LSD
- Meth
- Psilocybive (magic mushrooms)
Class B controlled drug
As specified/ described schedule 2 to this act
- Amphetamine
- Cannabis preparations
- GHB (fantasy)
- MDMA (ecstasy)
- Morhphine/opium/pseudoephedrine
Class C controlled drug
As specified /described in schedule 3 to this act AND
- Includes any drug analogue
- Cannabis plant/seeds
- BZP
R V Strawbridge
It is not necessary for the crown to establish knowledge on the part of the accused. In the absence of evidence to the contrary knowledge on her part will be presumed, but if there is some evidence that the accused honestly believed on reasonable grounds that her act was innocent, then she is entitled to be acquitted unless the jury is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that this was not so
Police V Emerali
In any drug offence the quantity of drug involved must be measureable and useable
Police v Emerali
…the serious offence of..possessing a narcotic does not extend to some minute and useless residue of the substance
Produce
To ‘produce’ means to bring something into being or to bring something into existence from its raw materials or elements
*Includes compound
***Manufacture
Manufacturing is the process of synthesis, combining components or processing raw materials to create a new substance
Ie manufacturing meth from pseudo
***R v RUA
The words “Produce or Manufacture” in sec 6(1)(b) broadly cover the creation of controlled drugs by some form of process which changes the orgincal substance into a particular controlled drug
Produce/Manufacture
Offence complete when..
The offence is complete once the prohibited substance is created, whether or not it is in a useable form
***Cannabis prep
Sec29B
- For the purpose of proceeding for offence against sec 6 or 7 following provisions apply..
a) Prosecution to prove preparation contains tetrahydro cannabinols
b) Subject to a) the prep. Is deemed to have been produced by subjecting plant material to some kind of processing unless it is clearly recognisable as plant material
c) Plant material means leaf, flower, stalk
d) Question of whether the prep is recognisable as plant material be determined by jury or judge by visual inspection
Supply
Includes to distribute give or sell
Sec 2 MODa 1975
Definitions –
Distribute
Give
Sell
Distribute- supply drugs to multiple people
- Includes distributing to co-owners
Give - Handing over, transferring to another
-can occur without active transfer ie permitting another to help themselves
Sell - A sale occurs when a quantity or share in a drug is exchanged to some V/C??
- Normally money but anything of value will suffice
***Maginnis (supply)
(supply involves) “more than the mere transfer of physical control .. (it includes) enabling the recipient to apply the thing.. for purposes for which he desires..
**Drugs- offer to supply class A and B Adminitser
In the context of drug dealing the appropriate meaning of ‘administer’ is to direct and cause a ..drug to be taken into the system of another person
Black law dictionary
Drug dealing- offer to supply
Offers
Express readiness to do something for or on behalf of someone
Oxford dictionary
R v During
(An offers is) an intimation by the person charged to another that he is ready on a request to supply to that other, drug of a kind prohibited by the statute
Offers to supply/administer
Sec 6 (1)(c)
Must prove..
- The communicating of an offer to supply or administer a controlled drug (actus reus)
- AND
- An intention that the other person believes the offer to be genuine (mens rea)
R v BROWN
The defendant is guilty in the following instances:
- Offers to supply a drug that he has on hand
- Offers to supply a drug that will be procured at some future date
- Offers to supply a drug that he mistakenly believes he can supply
- Offers to supply a drug deceitfully, knowing he will not supply the drug
The making of such an intimation, with the intention that is should be understood as a genuine offer, is an offence
“Otherwise deals” Sec 6(1)(c)
Dealing by some means other than distributing, giving or selling, administering, offering to supply or administer eg to barter or exchange
Sell
A sale occurs when a quantity or share in a drug is exchanged for some valuable consideration- will commonly be money but anything of value will suffice
Sell 18+
Proving age
R v Forrest and Forrest
The best evidence possible in the circumstances should be adduced by the prosecution in proof of the victims age
In practice this generally involves the victim birth cert, in conjunction with independent evidence that identifies the victim as the person named in the cert.
Sell 18+
Dealing with controlled drugs Sec 6(5)
Presumption of Sale
Dealing with controlled drugs for the purpose of paragraph (e) of subsection (1) of this section, if it is proved that a person has supplied a controlled drug to another person he shall until the contrary is proved be deemed to have sold that controlled drug to that other person
“ideal possession”
R v Cox
- Possession involves two elements
- The first, the physical element, is actual or potential physical custody or control
- The second, the mental element is a combo of knowledge and intention. Knowledge in the sense of an awareness by the accused that the substance is in his possession and an intention to exercise possession.
Possession (4)
Crown must prove
- Knowledge that the drug exists
- Knowledge that it is a controlled drug
- Some degree of control over it
- An intention to possess it
Potential possession
Define
Include anything subject to his control which is in the custody of another. Sec 2 (2) MODA 1975
Circumstantial evidence form which an offender’s intent may be inferred can include (3) Sec 6(1)(f)
- The offenders actions and words before, during and after the event
- The surrounding circumstances
- The nature of the act itself
Proving intent in drug cases (intent to supply)
Additional evidence of intent to supply may be inferred from
- Admissions
- Circumstances (packaging, scales, cash, tick list)
- Statutory presumption Sec 6(6)
***R V Cox
“Control”
To control something means to exercise authoritative or dominating influence over it.
Statutory presumption
Sec 6(6)
For the purposes of Sec 6(1)(f)
- a person is presumed until the contrary is proved to be in possession of a controlled drug for any of the purposes in subsection (1)(c)(d)(e)
- If s/he is in possession of the controlled drug in any amount, level or quantity at or over which the controlled drug is presumed to be for supply (see sec 2(1)(a))
Schedule 5 MODA Presumptive amounts (7)
- Heroin .5grams
- Cocaine .5grams
- LSD 2.5 mg or 25 tablets/flakes
- MDMA (ecstasy 5g or 100 tablets
- Meth 5grams
- Cannabis resin/oil 5gram
- Cannabis plants 28grams/100 cigarettes
- *where not specified 56grams
Components that provide knowledge of existence for possession
- The defendant must be aware that they possess the substance
- The defendant identifies the substance as a controlled drug
- Physical custody presumes knowledge, unless otherwise proven
Supply/Posses Equipment, precusors etc
Sec 12A
1. Everyone who
Supplies, produces, manufactures (7 years)
2. Everyone who
Has in his/her possession (5 years)
a) Any equipment or material that is capable of being used in or for the commission of an offence against sec 6(1)(b) or section 9 OR
b) Any precursor substances- knowing that the equipment, material or substance is to be used in or for the commission of an offence against those provisions
**Sec 12A(1)
Crown must prove (3)
- The defendant supplied, produced or manufactured equipment, material or precursors
- Those items are capable of being used in the production or manufacturing of controlled drug or cultivation of prohibited plants
- The Defendant knows those items are to be used for such an offence by another person
**Sec 12A(2)
Crown must prove
- The Defendant has equipment, material or precursor in his possession
- Those items are capable of being used in the production manufacture of controlled drug or cultivation
- The Defendant has the intention that those items are to be used for such an offence, either by himself or another person
Sec 12A(1) “Equipment”
Includes implements, apparatus and other hardware eg - Glassware - Condensers - Heating mantels - Pots - Lights - Timers - Water pumps
Sec 12A(1) “Material”
Anything used in the process of producing, manufacturing or cultivating that is not equipment Eg - Chemicals (other than precursors_ - Documents (instructions) - Fertilisers/nutrients etc
Examples of Precursors
- Acetic anhydride (heroin)
- Lysergic acid (LSD)
- Ephedrine/pseudoephedrine (meth)(are also controlled drugs)
**Cultivation
Sec 9
1) Except pursuant to licence or otherwise permitted by regs under this act
- No person shall cultivate any prohibited plant
2) 7 years
**Permits permises
Sec 12
1) Everyone who
- Knowingly permits any premises, vessel, aircraft, hovercraft, M/V or other conveyance
- To be used for the purpose of the commission of an offence against this act
10 years-class A
7 years class B
3 years any other
**Obstruction
Sec 16
- Everyone who
- Wilfully obstructs, hinders, resists, deceives any person in the ex. Of any powers conferred on that person by or pursuant to this act
• Obstructing anyone who is ex. Powers under MODA
• Is different than SOA obstruction
**Medicines Act
Sec 43 Medicines Act 1981
1) No Person shall, without reasonable excuse, import, procure, receive, store, use or otherwise have in his possession, any prescription medicine.
4) Every person commits an offence against this act who contravenes subsection (1)