The answers to these questions are in the YAPA fact sheet Alcohol and illegal drugs: Law & policy for NSW youth services (PDF 292KB).
Test your knowledge by answering the questions yourself before you read the fact sheet.
1. Is it illegal for a parent to obtain or buy alcohol for their son or daughter?
2. Is it illegal for another person to buy or obtain alcohol for an underage person, if they do not have the parents permission?
3. Under what circumstances can an underage person legally drink alcohol in public?
4. Is it an offence for an underage person to possess alcohol in their home?
5. Is it illegal to posses a syringe?
6. Do the police charge someone with self administration of a drug after an overdose?
7. You agree to mind a backpack at your service, not knowing that it contains drugs. Are you guilty of possession?
8. Can you conduct a bag search at an event?
9. Can you turn someone away from your event if they refuse a bag search?
10. You find alcohol during a bag search. The under age young person immediately tells you that they want it back and that they will leave. Can you confiscate it?
11. Under what conditions can police search a youth centre?
12. Under what circumstances might you tell a parent about their son or daughter's drug use?
13. A parent tells you that their son or daughter must not leave the service during the program. After the parent has left the young person says they are going to their friend's house to get "smashed". Can you force them to stay?
The answers to these questions are in the YAPA fact sheet Alcohol and illegal drugs: Law & policy for NSW youth services (PDF 292KB).
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Working with Young People with Alcohol or Other Drug Issues: A self-paced learning package Published: 2006 Funded by NSW Drug & Alcohol Workforce Development Council. Written & compiled by Kristy Delaney, YAPA, and Matt Stubbs & John Howard, Ted Noffs Institute. Additional material by Nick Manning, YAPA, & by Shopfront Youth Legal Centre. Opinions are the author's.
