(1) A registered medical practitioner specified in a practitioner medicinal cannabis authorisation may issue a patient medicinal cannabis access authorisation to the patient or participant specified in that practitioner medicinal cannabis authorisation.
(2) The registered medical practitioner must specify the following matters in a patient medicinal cannabis access authorisation—
(a) the identity of the patient or participant to whom the authorisation is issued; and
(b) the medicinal cannabis product for that patient or participant; and
(c) the prescribed information (if any).
Note
Sections 77 and 78 of the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981 provide offences that relate to patient medicinal cannabis access authorisations.