Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Act 2010
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Prohibition of advertising of psychoactive substances, etc. |
5.— (1) A person who publishes or displays or causes to be published or displayed any advertisement knowing or being reckless as to whether the advertisement— | |
(a) indicates an intention— | ||
(i) to sell or import or export a psychoactive substance for human consumption, or | ||
(ii) to sell any object for use in cultivating by hydroponic means any plant in contravention of section 17 of the Act of 1977, | ||
(b) promotes the consumption of a substance or a combination of substances for its or their, as the case may be, psychoactive effects and provides information on how or where a psychoactive substance may be obtained, or | ||
(c) provides information on how an object may be used to cultivate by hydroponic means any plant in contravention of section 17 of the Act of 1977, | ||
shall be guilty of an offence. | ||
(2) Without prejudice to any other defence that may be available, it shall be a defence for a person against whom proceedings for an offence under subsection (1) are brought to prove that he or she was, at the time of the alleged offence, a person referred to in section 6 (2). |