Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CUSTOMS AMENDMENT ACT 1979 No. 92 of 1979 - SECT 3

3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended-

(a) by inserting after the definition of ''Collector'' in sub-section (1) the
following definition:

'' 'Commercial quantity' means-

   (a)  in relation to a narcotic substance the name of which is specified in
        Column 1 of Schedule VIII-the quantity that is specified in column 2
        of that Schedule opposite to the name of the substance; and

   (b)  in relation to a narcotic substance that is for the time being
        declared by the regulations to be a prescribed narcotic substance-the
        quantity that is prescribed by the regulations to be the commercial
        quantity in relation to that narcotic substance.'';

   (b)  by inserting after the definition of ''Port'' in sub-section (1) the
        following definition:

'' 'prescribed narcotic substance' means a narcotic substance the name of
which is specified in Column 1 of Schedule VIII or any other narcotic
substance for the time being declared by the regulations to be a prescribed
narcotic substance.''; and

(c) by inserting ''to be the traffickable quantity'' after ''regulations''
(second occurring) in paragraph (b) of the definition of ''Traffickable
quantity'' in sub-section (1).