(1) A person who supplies or offer to supply any article which may be used or adapted to be used (whether by itself or in combination with another article) in the administration by any person of a controlled drug to himself or herself or another, believing that the article (or the article as adapted) is to be so used in circumstances where the administration is unlawful, is guilty of an offence.
(2) It is not an offence under subsection (1) to supply or offer to supply a hypodermic syringe, or any part of one.
(3) A person who supplies or offers to supply any article which may be used to prepare a controlled drug for administration by any person to himself or herself or another believing that the article is to be so used in circumstances where the administration is unlawful is guilty of an offence.
(4) For the purposes of this section, any administration of a controlled drug is unlawful except—
(a) the administration by any person of a controlled drug to another in circumstances where the administration of the drug is not unlawful under section 6(1); or
(b) the administration by any person of a controlled drug to himself or herself in circumstances where having the controlled drug in his or her possession is not unlawful under section 8(1).
(5) In this section, references to administration by any person of a controlled drug to himself or herself include a reference to his or her administering it to himself or herself with the assistance of another.
(Inserted by Act 8 of 1993)