Queensland Numbered Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH (MEDICINAL CANNABIS) ACT 2016 - SECT 68

68 Regulation may prescribe authority

(1) An eligible person is authorised to deal with medicinal cannabis—

(a) in a way (an
"authorised way" ) prescribed by regulation for the class of persons of which the person is a member; and

(b) subject to any conditions prescribed by regulation for the authorised way or the class of persons.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1)(b), a condition may do either or both of the following—

(a) require an eligible person to comply with a stated code, guideline, protocol or standard;

(b) require an eligible person to notify the chief executive if a particular thing happens.

(3) In this section—

"eligible person" means a person who is a member of any of the following classes of persons—

(a) health practitioners;

(b) trainee health practitioners;

(c) a class of persons prescribed by regulation—

(i) who are persons required to deal with medicinal cannabis in the course of their occupation or engagement in an institution or a Hospital and Health Service; or

(ii) who otherwise deal with medicinal cannabis.

"Hospital and Health Service" means a Hospital and Health Service established under the Hospital and Health Boards Act 2011 .