Criminal Code Act 1995

Schedule - The Criminal Code  

Section 3

CHAPTER 9 - DANGERS TO THE COMMUNITY  

Part 9.1 - Serious drug offences  

Division 307 - Import-export offences  

Subdivision B - Possessing unlawfully imported border controlled drugs or border controlled plants  

SECTION 307.5   Possessing commercial quantities of unlawfully imported border controlled drugs or border controlled plants  

(1)    
A person commits an offence if:

(a) the person possesses a substance; and

(b) the substance was unlawfully imported; and

(c) the substance is a border controlled drug or border controlled plant; and

(d) the quantity possessed is a commercial quantity.

Penalty: Imprisonment for life or 7,500 penalty units, or both.

(2)    
Absolute liability applies to paragraphs (1)(b) and (d).

(3)    
The fault element for paragraph (1)(c) is recklessness.

(4)    
Subsection (1) does not apply if the person proves that he or she did not know that the border controlled drug or border controlled plant was unlawfully imported.

Note:

A defendant bears a legal burden in relation to the matter in subsection (4) (see section 13.4 ).