Senate debates

Monday, 9 February 2015

Bills

Crimes Legislation Amendment (Psychoactive Substances and Other Measures) Bill 2014; In Committee

7:34 pm

Photo of Richard ColbeckRichard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

well, that is the implication that comes to me from your question—and it is captured, and I have said that it may be, then it is open to the importer to demonstrate, to establish, that it is there for a legitimate use. It goes back to a strategy which I said is deliberate, and I will keep repeating the strategy. It is deliberately a broad definition and it is designed so that the government can stay ahead of a rapidly changing drug market. It is a deliberate strategy.

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