Victorian Numbered Acts

ACCESS TO MEDICINAL CANNABIS ACT 2016 (NO. 20 OF 2016) - NOTES

No. 20 of 2016

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Victoria

Access to Medicinal Cannabis Act 2016^[†]

No. 20 of 2016

[Assented to 26 April 2016]

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^[†]     Minister's second reading speech—

    Legislative Assembly: 10 December 2015

    Legislative Council: 11 February 2016

    The long title for the Bill for this Act was "A Bill for an Act to provide for medicinal use of products derived from cannabis by establishing a scheme for the lawful manufacture of those products and the lawful use of those products by a limited class of Victorians, to consequentially amend the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981 and to make related amendments to certain other Acts and for other purposes."