Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NARCOTIC DRUGS ACT 1967 - SECT 4

             (1)  In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

"cannabis and cannabis resin" have the same respective meanings as in the Convention.

"CEO" means the Chief Executive Officer of Customs.

"coca leaves" has the same meaning as in the Convention.

"Collector" has the same meaning as in the Customs Act 1901 .

"drug" means any substance that is a drug for the purposes of the Convention, and includes any substance that regulations made in pursuance of section 8 provide is a drug for the purposes of this Act.

"handling" includes stacking, stowing, storing, transporting, loading, unloading and any operation incidental to, or arising out of, any of those operations.

"licensed manufacturer" means the holder of a manufacturer's licence.

"manufacturer's licence" means a licence under section 9.

"narcotic preparation" means any mixture, whether solid or liquid, that contains a drug.

"opium" has the same meaning as in the Convention.

"permit" means a permit under section 11.

"Secretary" means the Secretary to the Department of Health.

"the Convention" means the Convention entitled the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 that was adopted and opened for signature at New York on 30 March 1961, being the Convention a copy of the English text of which is set out in the First Schedule, and includes that Convention as amended from time to time.

"vessel" includes aircraft.

             (2)  For the purposes of this Act, the manufacturing of a drug consists of the carrying out of any process by which the drug may be obtained, and includes the refining of a drug and the transformation of one drug into another drug, but does not include the separation of opium, coca leaves, cannabis or cannabis resin from the plants from which it is or they are obtained.