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PUBLIC HEALTH (MEDICINAL CANNABIS) ACT 2016 - SECT 52

Prescription of medicinal cannabis other than under medicinal cannabis approval

52 Prescription of medicinal cannabis other than under medicinal cannabis approval

(1) A regulation may prescribe—
(a) a class of specialist medical practitioners who may prescribe medicinal cannabis under this Act; and
(b) conditions applying to the way in which the class of specialist medical practitioners may exercise the authority given to them under this chapter.
(2) The regulation may also prescribe—
(a) the class of patients to whom a member of the class of specialist medical practitioners mentioned in subsection (1)(a) may prescribe medicinal cannabis; and
(b) the type of medicinal cannabis with which a member of the class of specialist medical practitioners, mentioned in subsection (1)(a), may treat a member of the class of patients, mentioned in paragraph (a).
(3) Without limiting subsection (1)(b), a condition may do either or both of the following—
(a) require members of the class of specialist medical practitioners to comply with a stated code, guideline, protocol or standard;
(b) require members of the class of specialist medical practitioners to notify the chief executive if a particular thing happens.



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