6Meaning of *corresponding law*

6 Meaning of *corresponding law* (1) In this Act the expression ***corresponding law*** means any law stated in a certificate purporting to be issued by or on behalf of the Government of— S. 6(1)(a) amended by No. 25/2023 s. 7(Sch. 1 item 10.1). (a) any British possession (including any territory which is under His Majesty's protection or which is governed under a trusteeship agreement by the Government of any part of His Majesty's dominions) outside Victoria; or (b) any foreign country (including any protectorate thereof or any territory which 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 drugs in accordance with the provisions of— (i) the International Opium Convention signed at The Hague on the twenty-third day of January One thousand nine hundred and twelve; or (ii) the Convention which is referred to as the Geneva Convention in the preamble to the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom known as the Dangerous Drugs Act 1925 and as having been signed on behalf of His Majesty on the nineteenth day of February One thousand nine hundred and twenty-five; or (iii) the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 signed at New York on the thirtieth day of March One thousand nine hundred and sixty-one. (2) Any statement in a certificate mentioned in subsection (1) as to the effect of the law mentioned in the certificate or any statement in a certificate mentioned in subsection (1) that any facts constitute an offence against that law shall be conclusive. S. 7 amended by Nos 12/1987 s. 36(5)(a), 97/1987 s. 181(2), 23/1994 s. 118(Sch. 1 item 17.2), 46/1992 s. 78(1) (a)(b) (as amended by Nos 73/1994 s. 56(1)(a)), 74/2000 s. 3(Sch. 1 item 38.1 (a)(b)), 80/2004 s. 150(Sch. 2 item 2.3), 97/2005 s. 182(Sch. 4 item 16.2), 46/2008 s. 275(2), 13/2010 s. 36, 43/2010 s. 45, 27/2012 s. 10, 20/2016 s. 102, 61/2017 s. 123, 34/2019 s. 5.