The Law Handbook 2024

1212 Index serious offenders 145 inciting 139 indictable hearing 142 introduction to body of another 139, 143 jurisdiction of courts 142 laws concerning 131 legal advice 131 major offences 131 market value 140 narcotic plants, traffickable quantity 136 offering to sell 134 penalties, summary of 142–4 penalty units 131 personal search 141, 178 possession 133–4 burden of proof 133 deemed possession 133 definition 133 equipment for trafficking 139 evidence of trafficking 134, 135 first offence 144 instructions for trafficking or cultivating 138 intention to sell 134 narcotic plants, traffickable quantity 136 penalties 134, 143, 144 precursor chemical 139 small quantity 134, 136, 144 statutory possession 133 tablet press 139 traffickable quantity 134, 135, 136 preparatory act 139 prima facie evidence conclusive proof 140 defence to 140 possession of traffickable quantity as 134, 135 prison, in 233–4 prison sentences 143, 144 psychoactive substances 138 quantities 135–6 aggregated quantities 137 commercial quantity 136–7 large commercial quantity 137 small quantity 136 traffickable quantity 136 relevant laws 131 school, supply or trafficking at, 138 search and forfeiture 141–2 common law search 141 personal search 141, 178 record keeping 142 return of property 142 volatile substances 141 warrant 141 without warrant 141 section 76 bond 144 sentencing 142–4 serious offenders 145 significant offences 145 summary hearing 142 synthetic substances 131 tablet press, possession of 139 traffickable quantity 136 aggregated quantities 137 definition 136 mixed weight 136, 137 narcotic plants 136 possession of 134, 135 pure weight 136, 137 trafficking 134–7 allowing property to be used for 138 burden of proof 135 child, to 138, 143 commercial quantity 136–7, 143, 145 common law meaning 134 definition 134 DNA sample offence 187 entrapment defence 140 evidence of 135 indictable offence 134 inference 134 large commercial quantity 137, 143 manufacturing drug for 134 penalties 135, 143 possession of equipment for 139, 143 possession of instructions for 138 possession of traffickable quantity 134, 135 preparing drug for 134 prima facie evidence 134, 135 publication of instructions for 138 quantities 136 school or public place, at, 138 serious offences 145 small quantity 136 standard of proof 135 traffickable quantity 136 violence or threats, causing by 138 use 132–3 cautioning scheme 132 court-based support services 132 definition 132 first offence 144 penalties 132, 143, 144 volatile substances apprehension and detention of minors 142 inhaling (chroming) 141 search and seizure 141 drug treatment order see drug and alcohol treatment order (DATO) drugs and alcohol administration for sexual purpose 156 alcohol exclusion order 32, 35 bicycle riding 667 Court Integrated Services Program (CISP) 132, 152 DirectLine 238 driving offences see driving offences drug, definition 131 drunk/drinking in public place bail 198 infringement notice 96 infringement system and addiction special circumstance 105, 107 work and development permit (WDP) 113 injecting centre 131 offences see drug offences prison 226 offences 233–4 Opioid Substitution Therapy Program 226 testing prisoners 234 testing visitors 230 sexual purpose, administering for 156 treatment orders 32, 144, 145, 808 duress consent to treatment without 869 contract influenced by 677, 680 guarantee obtained by 433 marriage void where consent obtained by 258 duty lawyer services 64–5, 94 Children’s Court 40, 47, 64 how to use 65 infringements matters not having 122 Magistrates’ Court 64, 82 duty of care see negligence E EACH Financial Counselling Services Boronia 389 Box Hill 390 Clayton 390 Doncaster 390 Healesville 393 Ringwood 391 easements implied, on common property 599 investigating title 558 vendor’s statement 555 Eastern Access Community Health (EACH) Financial Counselling Services 389–93 New Horizons Self Advocacy Group 793 Eastern Community Legal Centre (ECLC) 89, 895 Boronia 89 Box Hill 89 Healesville 89 e-commerce 744–8 business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions 745 consumer guarantees 706, 744 consumer protection 744–8 consumer protection agencies 748 consumer-to-consumer (C2C) transactions 745 details of transaction 745 eBay 745 ePayments Code 458–9, 744 escrow agent 746 GST 747 industry body, contacting 748 internet auctions 745–7 internet scams 747, 751 laws applicable 744 legal action 748 online shopping 744–8 overseas purchases 747 PayPal 746 privacy policy 745 problems, dealing with 746–8 Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology 745 security 745 trader, who is 744 unauthorised transactions 458–62 Economic Justice Australia 342 education age discrimination 1005 children’s rights at school see school copyright issues 764 disability access 783, 1005 disability discrimination 782–3, 986, 1004