Queensland Numbered Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH (MEDICINAL CANNABIS) ACT 2016 - SECT 83

83 Additional power for immediate amendment or cancellation of medicinal cannabis approval

(1) The chief executive may also decide to—

(a) amend a medicinal cannabis approval immediately if—

(i) the chief executive is reasonably satisfied the immediate amendment is reasonably necessary in the circumstances; or

(ii) the expert advisory panel recommends the immediate amendment of the approval; or

(b) cancel a medicinal cannabis approval immediately if the chief executive is reasonably satisfied—

(i) the approval holder (the
"first approval holder" ) has ceased to treat the patient to whom the approval relates; and

(ii) it is reasonably necessary, for the welfare of the patient, for the chief executive to urgently give a medicinal cannabis approval that relates to the patient to a person other than the first approval holder.

(2) The amendment or cancellation takes effect on—

(a) the day an information notice for the chief executive’s decision is given to the approval holder; or

(b) if a later day of effect is stated in the information notice—the later day.

(3) For subsection (1)(b)(i), the chief executive may be reasonably satisfied the first approval holder has ceased to treat a patient, whether or not the chief executive has regard to—

(a) the reason the treatment ceased; or

(b) when the holder last treated the patient.