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This is information, not advice
Everything on this site is general information about the law. It is not legal advice, and it cannot be, for one specific reason: advice requires knowing your circumstances, and we do not know them.
The law differs across all eight Australian states and territories. The same question can have different answers depending on which jurisdiction you were in, what you were prescribed, what your lease says, what your employment contract says and the specific facts of your situation. A general page cannot resolve any of that for you.
If you are making a decision with legal consequences — about a lease, a disclosure, a border crossing or anything else — that decision belongs with a lawyer who has your file, not with a website.
We are not a law firm, and nothing on this site creates a solicitor-client relationship.
What a page being "checked" means
Every page on this site starts unchecked and says so. An unchecked page carries a notice at the top and a status line at the foot stating that nobody has yet opened the instruments and confirmed it. That is a deliberate disclosure, not a disclaimer buried in a terms page.
A page becomes checked only when someone has read every legal statement on it against the primary sources it claims to rely on. There are two kinds of check — publisher-checked and practitioner-checked — and every page tells you which one it got. The date shown is when the page was last checked against those sources.
The law changes, sometimes quickly, and sometimes between the day a page is checked and the day you read it. A date tells you when we checked. It is not a promise the position has not moved since.
So: check the date on the page, and verify anything that matters against the primary source we link to. Where a page says a rule exists but has not been tested in a court, take that qualification seriously.
What we do not do
We do not tell you when it is safe to drive after taking a medicine. No general resource can responsibly do that for a specific person.
We do not tell you what to say to a police officer, a customs official, a landlord or an employer. That is legal advice, and we do not give it.
We do not help anyone avoid, mask or time around a drug test, and we do not publish material about it.
We do not advertise, promote or recommend cannabis products, brands, clinics or prescription services. Australian law prohibits advertising prescription-only medicines to the public.
Referrals and paid placements
Some pages carry referral links to professionals — lawyers, insurance brokers and similar. Those firms pay a flat monthly fee to appear. We are paid for the introduction, not per outcome, and we take no share of what you pay any firm we refer you to.
A referral is not a recommendation. It means the firm pays to appear, and nothing more. It is not a statement that the firm is suitable for your matter, and it is not an assessment of competence, registration or quality. We do not verify the work of any firm listed here. You should make your own enquiries before engaging anyone.
We are not a party to any engagement between you and a referred professional, and we are not liable for the outcome.
Accuracy, and its limits
We take accuracy seriously. Pages covering the law are drafted from primary sources — legislation, bills, tribunal decisions and official government publications — and our process is set out in our editorial policy.
But the law changes. Bills pass, provisions are amended, regulations are reissued and courts interpret statutes in ways that shift how they apply in practice. A page can be correct on the day it is checked and out of date the next.
We do not warrant that this site is complete, current or error-free, and we may change or remove content at any time.
Third-party content and links
We link to legislation, government sites, tribunal decisions, regulator pages and other external sources. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content or availability. We also link to other websites owned by the same publisher where a page is relevant; those links are disclosed on the page where they appear.
Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss, damage, cost or consequence arising from your use of this site or from anything you did or did not do based on it.
Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee or right under the Australian Consumer Law that cannot lawfully be excluded. Where we may limit rather than exclude a liability, our liability is limited to supplying the relevant information again.
You use this site on the basis that you accept this allocation of risk. If you are not willing to, please do not rely on it.
Your use of the site
You may read, quote with attribution and link to us. You may not scrape or bulk copy the content to build a competing resource, or republish substantial portions as your own work.
User-submitted content
We do not host user comments, reviews or public submissions, so there is nothing of that kind to moderate.
Corrections
If you think something here is wrong, please tell us. Our process is described in the about page. We would rather publish a correction than defend an error.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the law of Queensland, Australia, and by the law of the Commonwealth of Australia where it applies. This site is intended for an Australian audience. If you use it elsewhere, the information will very likely not describe the law where you are.
Changes
We may update these terms. The current version is always the one on this page.
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