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DRUGS, POISONS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT 1981 - SECT 118

List of licences and permits

S. 118(1) amended by Nos 12/1994 s. 17(2)(a), 46/1998 s. 7(Sch. 1), 54/1997 s. 6(b), 13/2014 s. 5, 61/2017 s. 137(1).

    (1)     The Secretary must keep a list of the persons holding current licences, permits or warrants under this Act or the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 except licences, permits or warrants under section 34, 56 or Part IVB or authorities under Part IVA.

    (2)     The list must contain—

S. 118(2)(a) amended by No. 12/1994 s. 17(2)(b).

        (a)     the full name and the residential or business address of each holder of a licence, permit or warrant; and

        (b)     any other prescribed particulars.

S. 118(3) amended by Nos 46/1998 s. 7(Sch. 1), 12/1999 s. 4(Sch. 2 item 4.1), 61/2017 s. 137(2).

    (3)     Subject to subsection (3A), the Secretary must ensure that a copy of the list is kept available for inspection by members of the public during normal office hours without charge, at the Secretary's principal office.

S. 118(3A) inserted by No. 61/2017 s. 137(3).

    (3A)     The Secretary must not make a copy of the list available for inspection by members of the public unless any information about a voluntary assisted dying permit or any other authorisation under the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 has been omitted from the list.

S. 118(4) amended by No. 46/1998 s. 7(Sch. 1)

    (4)     The Secretary may take any steps that he or she considers appropriate to bring the existence of the list to the notice of members of the public.

S. 118(5) amended by Nos 12/1994 s. 17(2)(c)(i), 46/1998 s. 7(Sch. 1).

    (5)     In any proceedings the production of a document certified in writing purporting to be signed by the Secretary and purporting to be a copy of or an extract from the list as at a particular date is evidence and, in the absence of evidence to the contrary is proof—

        (a)     of the matters stated; and

S. 118(5)(b) amended by No. 12/1994 s. 17(2)(c)(ii).

        (b)     that at that date the persons whose names appear in the document held current licences, permits or warrants under this Act.

S. 118(6) amended by No. 12/1994 s. 17(2)(d).

    (6)     In any proceedings, the absence of a person's name from a document that complies with subsection (5) is evidence and in the absence of evidence to the contrary is proof that on the relevant date the person was not the holder of a licence, permit or warrant under this Act and that is required to be listed under this section.

S. 118(7) inserted by No. 20/2016 s. 140, repealed by No. 34/2019 s. 42.

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S. 118(8) inserted by No. 66/2017 s. 8.

    (8)     This section does not apply to a medically supervised injecting centre licence under Part IIA.



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