30I—Employee of licensed grower authorised to undertake activities under
licence
(1) For the purposes
of this Act, an employee of a licensed grower who holds a poppy cultivation
licence for commercial purposes relating to therapeutic use, is authorised to
carry out any activity under the licence involving the cultivation or
possession of alkaloid poppies or the sale or supply of poppy straw to a
licensed processor required of the employee in the course of his or her
employment.
(2) For the purposes
of this Act, an employee of a licensed grower who holds a poppy cultivation
licence for research purposes relating to non-therapeutic use, is authorised
to carry out any activity under the licence, including the following, that is
required of the employee in the course of his or her employment:
(a) to
cultivate or possess alkaloid poppies;
(b) to
conduct measurements, analyses and extractions including extraction of
alkaloids from alkaloid poppies for chemical analyses at specified premises;
(c) to
supply alkaloid poppies or poppy straw to a licensed processor.
(3) An employee must
only undertake an activity authorised under subsection (1) or (2) in
relation to his or her employment.