Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00536:section:22
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00536
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 22
Character Range: 156376–157677

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.