3Interpretation

#### 3 Interpretation In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears: > Australia, when used in a geographical sense, includes the external Territories. > Collector has the same meaning as in the Customs Act 1901. > Commission means the Commission on Narcotic Drugs of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. > Comptroller‑General of Customs means the person who is the Comptroller‑General of Customs in accordance with subsection 11(3) or 14(2) of the Australian Border Force Act 2015. > Convention means the Convention on Psychotropic Substances that was adopted and opened for signature at Vienna on 21 February 1971 the text of which is set forth in the Schedule and includes that Convention as amended from time to time in relation to Australia. > export authorization means an export authorization issued by or on behalf of the Government of a country in pursuance of the Convention or in pursuance of a law of that country giving effect to the Convention in so far as it relates to the exportation of goods. > preparation means: (a) a solution or mixture, in whatever physical state, containing a psychotropic substance or 2 or more psychotropic substances; or (b) a psychotropic substance, or 2 or more psychotropic substances, in dosage form. > psychotropic substance means a Schedule I substance or a Schedule II substance. > psychotropic preparation means a preparation other than a preparation declared by the regulations to be an exempt preparation. > Schedule I substance means: (a) a substance or natural material that is specified in the list of substances and natural materials contained in Schedule I to the Convention in the form in which that Schedule appears in the Schedule to this Act other than a substance or material that is declared by the regulations to be deemed to have been deleted from that list; or (b) a substance or natural material that is declared by the regulations to be deemed to have been added to that list; and > Schedule II substance means: (i) a substance or natural material that is specified in the list of substances and natural materials contained in Schedule II to the Convention in the form in which that Schedule appears in the Schedule to this Act other than a substance or material that is declared by the regulations to be deemed to have been deleted from that list; or (ii) a substance or material that is declared by the regulations to be deemed to have been added to that list.