Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981 - SECT 6

Meaning of corresponding law

6. Meaning of corresponding law



(1) In this Act the expression corresponding law means any law stated in a
certificate purporting to be issued by or on behalf of the Government of-

   (a)  any British possession (including any territory which is under Her
        Majesty's protection or which is governed under a trusteeship
        agreement by the Government of any part of Her Majesty's dominions)
        outside Victoria; or

   (b)  any foreign country (including any protectorate thereof or any
        territory which is governed under a trusteeship agreement by the
        Government thereof)-

to be a law providing for the control and regulation in that possession or
country of the manufacture sale use export or import of drugs in accordance
with the provisions of-

        (i)    the International Opium Convention signed at The Hague on the
               twenty-third day of January One thousand nine hundred and
               twelve; or

        (ii)   the Convention which is referred to as the Geneva Convention in
               the preamble to the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
               known as the Dangerous Drugs Act 1925 and as having been signed
               on behalf of His Majesty on the nineteenth day of February One
               thousand nine hundred and twenty-five; or

        (iii)  the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 signed at New
               York on the thirtieth day of March One thousand nine hundred
               and sixty-one.



(2) Any statement in a certificate mentioned in subsection (1) as to the
effect of the law mentioned in the certificate or any statement in a
certificate mentioned in subsection (1) that any facts constitute an offence
against that law shall be conclusive.