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PUBLIC HEALTH (MEDICINAL CANNABIS) ACT 2016 - SECT 169

Statement of warning

169 Statement of warning

(1) The Minister or chief executive may make or issue a public statement identifying and giving warnings or information about any of the following—
(a) notification action being taken and persons who have committed contraventions of this Act;
(b) practices regulated under a relevant law that, in the reasonable opinion of the Minister or chief executive, are unlawful;
(c) offences committed against a relevant law and the person or persons who committed the offences.
(2) The statement may identify particular contraventions, practices, offences and persons.
(3) The Minister or chief executive must not make or issue a statement under this section unless satisfied—
(a) it is in the public interest to do so; and
(b) a public statement or warning has not been released, or is not about to be released, under another process that is more appropriate to the circumstances.
(4) Without limiting subsection (3)(a), it is in the public interest if the Minister or chief executive considers that the statement is necessary to prevent or minimise a substance risk for medicinal cannabis.
(5) In this section—

"notification action" means a recall order, compliance notice or show cause notice.

"relevant law" includes the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 (Cwlth) .



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