Criminal Code Act 1995

Schedule - The Criminal Code  

Section 3

CHAPTER 9 - DANGERS TO THE COMMUNITY  

Part 9.1 - Serious drug offences  

Division 308 - Possession offences  

SECTION 308.4   Possessing substance, equipment or instructions for commercial manufacture of controlled drugs  

(1)    
A person commits an offence if:

(a) the person possesses any substance (other than a controlled precursor), any equipment or any document containing instructions for manufacturing a controlled drug; and

(b) the person intends to use the substance, equipment or document to manufacture a controlled drug; and

(c) the person intends to sell, or believes that another person intends to sell, any of the drug so manufactured.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 7 years or 1,400 penalty units, or both.

(2)    
For the purposes of proving an offence against subsection (1), if:

(a) a person possessed a tablet press; and

(b) a law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory required the possession to be authorised (however described); and

(c) the possession was not so authorised;

the person is taken to have possessed the tablet press with the intention of using it to manufacture a controlled drug.

(3)    
Subsection (2) does not apply if the person proves that he or she did not have that intention.

Note:

A defendant bears a legal burden in relation to the matter in subsection (3) (see section 13.4 ).