NARCOTIC DRUGS ACT 1967 - SECT 22 Drugs passing through Australia
NARCOTIC DRUGS ACT 1967 - SECT 22
Drugs passing through Australia(1) Where a drug consigned to a person, or to a place, outside Australia enters Australia, a Collector may, whether or not the drug is unloaded from the vessel or aircraft in which it entered Australia, require a person having possession or control of the drug to produce to the Collector an export authorization, or a copy of an export authorization, relating to the drug.
(2) If the export authorization is not produced to the Collector, the Collector may cause the drug to be seized.
(3) A drug seized under the last preceding subsection shall be disposed of in accordance with the directions of the Comptroller - General of Customs .
(4) For the purposes of this section, a drug on board a vessel or aircraft , whether or not it is the vessel or aircraft on which the drug entered Australia , shall be deemed to be in the possession of the master of the vessel or captain of the aircraft, as the case requires .
(5) In this section, export authorization , in relation to a
drug, means any export authorization issued by or on behalf of the government
of a country in pursuance of the Convention or the Second Opium Conference
Convention signed at Geneva on 19 February 1925, or in pursuance of a
law of that country giving effect to either of those Conventions.