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NARCOTIC DRUGS ACT 1967 - SECT 10F Condition that medicinal cannabis licence holder employ or engage suitable staff

NARCOTIC DRUGS ACT 1967 - SECT 10F

Condition that medicinal cannabis licence holder employ or engage suitable staff

  (1)   It is a condition of a medicinal cannabis licence that the licence holder take all reasonable steps not to employ or engage a person to carry out activities authorised by the licence if:

  (a)   the person is aged under 18 years; or

  (b)   the person has been convicted of a serious offence during the period of 5 years before the employment or engagement; or

  (c)   the person is taken not to be suitable to carry out activities authorised by a medicinal cannabis licence under regulations made for the purposes of subsection   ( 2); or

  (d)   the person is included in a class of persons prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.

  (2)   The regulations may prescribe circumstances in which a person is taken not to be suitable to carry out activities authorised by a medicinal cannabis licence, including but not limited to circumstances relating to the following:

  (a)   a person's criminal record;

  (b)   a person's employment history.