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PUBLIC HEALTH (MEDICINAL CANNABIS) ACT 2016 - SECT 24

Criteria for grant of medicinal cannabis approval

24 Criteria for grant of medicinal cannabis approval

(1) When considering an application for a medicinal cannabis approval the chief executive may consider the following—
(a) whether the applicant is a suitable person to hold the approval;
(b) whether the patient is a suitable person to undergo treatment with medicinal cannabis;
(c) the patient’s medical condition and associated symptoms of the medical condition;
(d) the form and dosage of medicinal cannabis for which the applicant intends to give a lawful direction under the approval;
(e) whether treatment with medicinal cannabis can be integrated into the patient’s existing medical treatment;
(f) any opinion of a specialist medical practitioner given to the chief executive under section or ;
(g) alternative treatments suitable for the patient’s medical condition or associated symptoms;
(h) the patient’s history of drug dependence, if any, including current use of cannabis;
(i) whether the medicinal cannabis to which the approval will apply—
(i) has, or will be, manufactured or imported in accordance with the applicable law of the Commonwealth; and
(ii) is, or will be, approved or authorised to be supplied, for the purpose of treating the patient, in accordance with the applicable law of the Commonwealth;
(j) any other information in the application for the approval;
(k) any other matters the chief executive reasonably considers relevant to deciding the application.
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the chief executive may grant a medicinal cannabis approval only if the chief executive is satisfied of the following matters—
(a) the applicant is a suitable person to hold the approval;
(b) the patient is a suitable person to undergo treatment with medicinal cannabis;
(c) the medicinal cannabis to which the approval will apply—
(i) has, or will be, manufactured or imported in accordance with the applicable law of the Commonwealth; and
(ii) is, or will be, able to be supplied, for the purpose of treating the patient, in accordance with the applicable law of the Commonwealth.



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