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CRIMES (TRAFFIC IN NARCOTIC DRUGS AND PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES) ACT 1990 - SECT 17

Presumption that traffickable quantity etc. of narcotic drug etc. is for sale or supply

    For the purposes of this Act, where a person:

  (a)   has in his or her possession; or

  (b)   imports into, or exports from, Australia ; or

  (c)   has in his or her possession with the intention of importation into, or exportation from, Australia ;

a traffickable quantity or a commercial quantity of a narcotic drug or of a psychotropic substance specified in Part   1 of Schedule   3, it is presumed that:

  (d)   the possession; or

  (e)   the importation or exportation; or

  (f)   the intended importation or exportation;

as the case may be, is with the intention of sale or supply, but that presumption is rebuttable.



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