Victorian Numbered Acts

ACCESS TO MEDICINAL CANNABIS ACT 2016 (NO. 20 OF 2016) - SECT 45

    (1)     The Health Secretary is authorised—

        (a)     to sell or supply to an authorised research practitioner any specified medicinal cannabis product that the Health Secretary—

              (i)     obtained or purchased in accordance with section 39(a); or

              (ii)     manufactured in accordance with a manufacturing authorisation; and

        (b)     to package and transport the medicinal cannabis product for the purposes of paragraph (a).

    (2)     In this section—

"authorised research practitioner" means a registered medical practitioner who is specified in a practitioner medicinal cannabis authorisation—research purposes as authorised to issue a patient medicinal cannabis access authorisation to a participant in research or a trial;

"specified medicinal cannabis" product means a medicinal cannabis product that is specified, or that belongs to a class that is specified, in a practitioner medicinal cannabis authorisation—research purposes.

Note

Section 47 authorises the authorised research practitioner to obtain and purchase the medicinal cannabis product and supply it to the participant.

Part 7—Practitioner medicinal cannabis authorisations