Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953 - SECT 99ZI

  (1)   A person must not leave Australia carrying drug like substances unless they:

  (a)   are not prescription drugs; or

  (b)   are prescription drugs but no Commonwealth benefit has been paid or is payable in respect of those drugs; or

  (c)   are prescription drugs but for the personal use of the person, of another person travelling in the company of the person or of a person covered by paragraph   86A(2)(a), (b) or (c).

  (2)   A person must not consign for export an article that contains drug like substances unless the substances:

  (a)   are not prescription drugs; or

  (b)   are prescription drugs but no Commonwealth benefit has been paid or is payable in respect of those drugs; or

  (c)   are prescription drugs but for the personal use of the person, of another person accompanying the person or of a person covered by paragraph   86A(2)(a), (b) or (c).

  (3)   For the purposes of subsection   (1), a person who attempts to leave Australia is taken to be carrying drug like substances if the substances are in baggage to which the person's documents for travel relate, whether or not that baggage is under the person's immediate physical control.

  (4)   The restriction imposed by subsections   (1) and (2) on the carriage or consignment of drug like substances are in addition to, and not in derogation from, any other prohibition or restriction imposed on such activities, in relation to those substances, under any other law of the Commonwealth or any law of a State or Territory.

  (5)   The reference in subsection   (3) to a person's documents for travel that relate to the person's baggage includes a reference to any document relating to the person's travel that contains information for use by the person in reclaiming that baggage.