Customs Legislation Amendment (Drugs) Regulations 2025

(F2025L00182)

24 February 2025

Customs Act 1901

1   Name

This instrument is the Customs Legislation Amendment (Drugs) Regulations 2025.

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.

Commencement information

   

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1. The whole of this instrument

1 March 2025.

1 March 2025

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 the Customs Act 1901.

4   Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1   Amendments

Part 1   Amendments

Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations 1958

1   Part 1 of Schedule 8 (after table item 23)

Insert:

23AAA

Butonitazene

2   Part 2 of Schedule 8 (after table item 5)

Insert:

5A

3-chloromethcathinone (otherwise known as 3-CMC)

3   Part 2 of Schedule 8 (after table item 10)

Insert:

10AA

Dipentylone

4   Part 2 of Schedule 8 (after table item 13AAA)

Insert:

13AAAA

2-fluorodeschloroketamine

5   Part 3 of Schedule 8 (after table item 3AA)

Insert:

3AB

1-boc-4-piperidone

6   Part 3 of Schedule 8 (after table item 17A)

Insert:

17AA

P-2-P methyl glycidic acid (otherwise known as BMK glycidic acid) and its methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, butyl, isobutyl, sec-butyl and tert-butyl esters

7   Part 3 of Schedule 8 (table item 17B)

Repeal the item, substitute:

17B

3,4-MDP-2-P methyl glycidic acid (otherwise known as PMK glycidic acid) and its ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, butyl, isobutyl, sec-butyl and tert-butyl esters

8   Part 3 of Schedule 8 (after table item 22)

Insert:

22A

4-piperidone

9   Part 4 of Schedule 8 (after table item 3)

Insert:

3A

Bromazolam

Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956

10   Schedule 4 (after table item 19A)

Insert:

19B

Benzoylbenzylfentanyl

19C

Benzoylfentanyl

11   Schedule 4 (after table item 20)

Insert:

20A

Benzylfentanyl

20B

Benzylfuranylfentanyl

12   Schedule 4 (after table item 28A)

Insert:

28B

1-boc-4-piperidone

13   Schedule 4 (after table item 29)

Insert:

29AA

Bromazolam

14   Schedule 4 (after table item 32)

Insert:

32AA

Butonitazene

15   Schedule 4 (after table item 39A)

Insert:

39AA

3-chloromethcathinone (otherwise known as 3-CMC)

16   Schedule 4 (after table item 50A)

Insert:

50B

N-Desethyl etonitazene

50C

N-Desethyl isotonitazene

50D

N-Desethyl protonitazene

17   Schedule 4 (after table item 56C)

Insert:

56D

Diethyl 2-(2-phenylacetyl) propanedioate

18   Schedule 4 (after table item 71)

Insert:

71AA

Dipentylone

19   Schedule 4 (after table item 82)

Insert:

82A

Ethyl alpha-phenylacetoacetate (otherwise known as EAPA)

20   Schedule 4 (after table item 83)

Insert:

83AA

Ethylene etonitazene

83AB

Ethyleneoxynitazene

83AC

P-2-P ethyl glycidate

21   Schedule 4 (after table item 87C)

Insert:

87D

Etodesnitazene

22   Schedule 4 (after table item 88)

Insert:

88AA

Etonitazepipne

23   Schedule 4 (after table item 95)

Insert:

95A

Flunitazene

24   Schedule 4 (after table item 97)

Insert:

97AAA

2-fluorodeschloroketamine

25   Schedule 4 (after table item 111)

Insert:

111A

Ibotenic Acid

26   Schedule 4 (after table item 112A)

Insert:

112AAA

Isotodesnitazene

27   Schedule 4 (table item 127B)

Repeal the item, substitute:

127B

3,4-MDP-2-P methyl glycidic acid (otherwise known as PMK glycidic acid) and its ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, butyl, isobutyl, sec-butyl and tert-butyl esters

28   Schedule 4 (after table item 146)

Insert:

146AAA

Methylenedioxynitazene (2-(2-(benzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-ylmethyl)-5-nitro
1H-benzo[d]imidazol-1-yl)-N,N-diethylethan-1-amine)

29   Schedule 4 (after table item 147AAA)

Insert:

147AAB

P-2-P methyl glycidic acid (otherwise known as BMK glycidic acid)

30   Schedule 4 (after table item 151)

Insert:

151AA

Metodesnitazene (otherwise known as metazene)

31   Schedule 4 (after table item 197A)

Insert:

197B

3-Phenylpropanoylfentanyl

197C

1-phenyl-2-propyl-2-yl 4-methylbenzenesulfonate

32   Schedule 4 (after table item 201)

Insert:

201AA

4-piperidone

33   Schedule 4 (after table item 211A)

Insert:

211B

Protonitazepyne (otherwise known as N-pyrrolidino protonitazene)

34   Schedule 4 (after table item 218B)

Insert:

218C

Secofentanyl

35   Schedule 4 (after table item 227)

Insert:

227A

Thiofuranylfentanyl

Customs Regulation 2015

36   Subclause 1(1) of Schedule 7 (before table item 1A)

Insert:

1AAA

1-boc-4-piperidone

1AAB

1-phenyl-2-propyl-2-yl 4-methylbenzenesulfonate

1AAC

3,4-MDP-2-P methyl glycidic acid (otherwise known as PMK glycidic acid) and its ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, butyl, isobutyl, sec-butyl and tert-butyl esters

37   Subclause 1(1) of Schedule 7 (after table item 3)

Insert:

3A

Diethyl 2-(2-phenylacetyl) propanedioate

38   Subclause 1(1) of Schedule 7 (after table item 7)

Insert:

7A

Ethyl alpha-phenylacetoacetate (otherwise known as EAPA)

39   Subclause 1(1) of Schedule 7 (after table item 13A)

Insert:

13B

P-2-P ethyl glycidate

13C

P-2-P methyl glycidic acid (otherwise known as BMK glycidic acid) and its methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, butyl, isobutyl, sec-butyl and tert-butyl esters

40   Subclause 1(1) of Schedule 7 (after table item 16A)

Insert:

16B

4-piperidone

Part 2   Application and transitional provisions

Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations 1958

41   In the appropriate position in Part 5

Insert:

26 Transitional matters - amendments made by the Customs Legislation Amendment (Drugs) Regulations 2025

The amendments of these Regulations made by Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Customs Legislation Amendment (Drugs) Regulations 2025 apply in relation to drugs exported from Australia on or after the commencement of that Part.

Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956

42   In the appropriate position before Schedule 1

Insert:

21 Transitional matters - amendments made by the Customs Legislation Amendment (Drugs) Regulations 2025

The amendments of these Regulations made by Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Customs Legislation Amendment (Drugs) Regulations 2025 apply in relation to drugs imported into Australia on or after the commencement of that Part.

Customs Regulation 2015

43   In the appropriate position in Part 18

Insert:

166 Amendments made by the Customs Legislation Amendment (Drugs) Regulations 2025

The amendments of these Regulations made by Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Customs Legislation Amendment (Drugs) Regulations 2025 apply in relation to:

(a) goods imported into Australia on or after the commencement of that Part; or

(b) goods exported from Australia on or after the commencement of that Part.