Customs (Prohibited Imports) (Kava) Approval 2019

I, Jason Wood, Assistant Minister for Customs, Community Safety and Multicultural Affairs and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Home Affairs, make the following approval.

Dated 13 December 2019

Jason Wood

Assistant Minister for Customs, Community Safety and Multicultural Affairs
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Home Affairs

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Approval of importation of kava

1  Name

  This instrument is the Customs (Prohibited Imports) (Kava) Approval 2019.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under subregulation 5(3) of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956.

4  Approval of importation of kava

  The importation into Australia of kava is approved if the drug:

 (a) is imported in any of the following forms:

 (i) kava root;

 (ii) dried kava;

 (iii) a beverage that is made from the aqueous suspension of kava root in cold water only; and

 (b) is imported by a person who is 18 years old or older; and

 (c) does not exceed an amount of 4 kilograms; and

 (d) is imported as accompanied personal effects of the person as a passenger on board a ship or aircraft.