Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) Subject to subsection (3), for the purposes specified in subsection (2), the Chief Commissioner of Police may authorise the supply to a declared testing facility of a thing that is, or is suspected of being—
(a) a drug of dependence or a substance that contains a drug of dependence; or
(b) a poison or controlled substance; or
(c) an instrument, device or substance that is or has been used or is capable of being used for or in the cultivation, manufacture, sale or use or in the preparation for cultivation, manufacture, sale or use of a drug of dependence.
(2) The purposes for which the Chief Commissioner of Police may authorise the supply of a thing to a declared testing facility are—
(a) substance profiling; and
(b) analytical testing; and
(c) research.
(3) The Chief Commissioner of Police must not authorise the supply to a declared testing facility outside Victoria of a thing referred to in subsection (1) unless satisfied that the possession of the thing by a person employed or engaged by the declared testing facility is permitted under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the facility is located.
(4) If a thing has been supplied to a declared testing facility under this section, the person in charge of the facility must arrange for the thing to be returned to, or collected by, the Victoria Police as soon as practicable after the purpose for which it was supplied has been carried out.
(5) Subsection (4) does not apply to a thing, or
part of a thing, that has been destroyed in the process of carrying out the
purpose for which it has been supplied.
Part VII—Proceedings
S. 102 amended by No. 10002 s. 9(a)(b).