Victorian Current Acts

DRUGS, POISONS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT 1981 - SECT 69PE

    (1)     For the purposes of this Act, an employee of a licensed processor who holds a poppy processing licence for commercial purposes relating to therapeutic use, is authorised to carry out any of the following activities under the licence that is required of the employee in the course of his or her employment—

        (a)     to receive poppy straw from a licensed grower or a person authorised to possess alkaloid poppies in another jurisdiction; and

        (b)     to process and possess poppy straw at specified premises; and

        (c)     to transport, sell or supply poppy straw to a person who possesses a Commonwealth licence to manufacture; and

        (d)     to export poppy straw if the applicant possesses a Commonwealth licence to export.

    (2)     For the purposes of this Act, an employee of a licensed processor who holds a poppy processing licence for research purposes relating to non‑therapeutic use, is authorised to carry out any activity under the licence involving the processing, possession, transportation of poppy straw or the sale or supply of poppy straw to a licensed processor that is required of the employee in the course of his or her employment.

    (3)     An employee must only undertake an activity authorised under subsection (1) or (2) in relation to his or her employment.

S. 69PF inserted by No. 13/2014 s. 4.