South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts40—Officer or constable obtaining a sample of a drug in course of
transit or during delivery to submit for analysis
(1) Any health
surveyor may procure, without payment, at the place of delivery, or at any
railway station or other place during transit, or upon the premises of or
elsewhere in the possession of any person for the purpose of carriage, any
reasonable quantity as a sample of any drug in course of delivery to the
purchaser or consignee in pursuance of any contract or agreement for the sale
to such purchaser or consignee of such drug; and such health surveyor may send
or deliver the same to an analyst to be analysed; and after analysis
proceedings shall be taken in like manner in all respects as if such health
surveyor had purchased the same from the seller or consignor and as if the
seller or consignor had sold the same to such health surveyor.
(2) If the seller or
consignor, or any person entrusted by him, or either of them for the time
being, with the charge of such drug, shall refuse to allow any such officer to
take the quantity which such officer shall require for the purpose of
analysis, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars.