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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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