Section 30: Drug dealing offences

30. Drug dealing offences (1) Any person who unlawfully— (a) organises, manages, or finances any of the offences specified in this section; (b) imports, exports, causes to be imported or exported, aids, abets, counsels or procures the importation or exportation of any dangerous drug; D2 – 17 [Issue 2] Dangerous Drugs Act (c) produces, manufactures, extracts, prepares or transforms any dangerous drug; (d) offers, offers for sale, distributes, sells, brokers, delivers or transports on any terms whatsoever, dispatches, or dispatches in transit any dangerous drug; (e) cultivates opium poppy, coca bush or cannabis plant; (f) possesses, purchases or offers to purchase any dangerous drug for the purpose of any activity in this section, shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable— (i) where the offence is in respect of a dangerous drug specified in Part I of the First Schedule, Second Schedule or Third Schedule, to a fine not exceeding one million rupees and to penal servitude for a term not exceeding 25 years; (ii) where the offence is in respect of a dangerous drug specified in Part II of the First Schedule, to a fine not exceeding one million rupees together with penal servitude for a term which shall not be less than 5 years and not more than 25 years. (2) Nothing in this section shall render unlawful the act of a police officer, in the execution of his duty for the detection of offences, in offering to buy any dangerous drug. (3) Where on the trial of a person charged with an offence under subsection (1) (f), it is proved that the possession, purchase or offer to purchase, as the case may be, was not for the purpose of any activity specified in subsection (1), he shall not by reason thereof be acquitted but the Court may find such person guilty of an offence of possession, purchase or offer to purchase, as the case may be, under section 34 (1) (b). [S. 30 amended by s. 4 of Act 29 of 2003 w.e.f. 1 September 2003; s. 4 of Act 30 of 2008 w.e.f. 20 February 2009.]