Poisons Act 1971

A person who – contravenes or fails to comply with the conditions of any licence issued or authority granted to him under this Part; within the State aids, abets, counsels, or procures the commission in a place outside the State of an offence punishable under a corresponding law in force in that place, or does any act in furtherance of an act committed outside the State that, if committed in the State, would constitute an offence against this Part; or is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding 20 penalty units or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months, or both.

In this section, corresponding law means a law stated in a certificate purporting to be issued by or on behalf of the Government of – a British possession (including a territory that is under the Sovereign's protection or that is governed under a trusteeship agreement by the Government of any part of the Sovereign's dominions) outside this State; or a foreign country (including a protectorate thereof or any territory that is governed under a trusteeship agreement by the Government thereof) – to be a law providing for the control and regulation in that possession or country of the manufacture, sale, use, export, or import of narcotic substances in accordance with the provisions of – the International Opium Convention signed at The Hague on 23rd January 1912; the convention that is referred to as the Geneva Convention in the preamble to the Imperial Act known as the Dangerous Drugs Act 1925; or the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, signed at New York on 30th March 1961.

A statement in such a certificate as is mentioned in subsection (2) as to the effect of a law mentioned therein, or a statement in such a certificate that any facts constitute an offence punishable under such a law, is conclusive.