(1) A person who ¾

(a) being the occupier of any premises, knowingly permits those premises to be used for the purpose of ¾

(i) the manufacture or preparation of a prohibited drug or prohibited plant for use; or

(ii) the manufacture, preparation, sale, supply or use of a prohibited drug or prohibited plant;

(b) being the owner or lessee of any premises, knowingly permits those premises to be used for the purpose of using a prohibited drug or prohibited plant;

(c) is knowingly concerned in the management of any premises used for any of the purposes referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b);

(d) has in his possession ¾

(i) any pipes or other utensils for use in connection with the smoking of a prohibited drug or prohibited plant; or

(ii) any utensils used in connection with the manufacture or preparation of a prohibited drug or prohibited plant for smoking,

in or on which pipes or utensils there are detectable traces of a prohibited drug or prohibited plant; or

(e) is found in any place which is then being used for the purpose of smoking a prohibited drug or prohibited plant other than cannabis,

except when he is authorised by or under this Act or by or under the Poisons Act 1964 to do so, commits a simple offence.

(2) In subsection (1) ¾

}owner~, in relation to any premises, includes the person entitled to receive the rent of those premises and the person to whom the rent of those premises is paid.

[Section 5 amended by No. 52 of 2003 s. 28.]