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DRUGS MISUSE REGULATION 1987 - SCHEDULE 8

DRUGS MISUSE REGULATION 1987 - SCHEDULE 8

SCHEDULE 8 – Licence conditions

Part 1 - General conditions

1 A licensee must keep cannabis seed in the licensee’s possession in a securely locked place, other than when the licensee uses the seed for a purpose that is authorised under the licensee’s licence.
2 As soon as reasonably practicable after a licensee receives a package containing cannabis plants or seed that appears to have been tampered with, the licensee must inform an inspector or a police officer that the package appears to have been tampered with.
3 A licensee who proposes to supply industrial cannabis seed for sale by wholesale or retail must ensure—
(a) if the seed is cannabis seed harvested from an industrial cannabis plant—the seed is labelled so as to describe the seed as cannabis seed harvested from an industrial cannabis plant; or
(b) if the seed is to be supplied as planting seed—the seed is labelled with the required particulars.
Note—
See section 27C for additional labelling requirements.

Part 2 - Particular conditions for researcher licences

4 A researcher, whose licence is subject to a condition prohibiting the researcher from dealing with class A research cannabis plants and seed, must allow an inspector to destroy, or supervise the destruction of, cannabis plants in the possession of the researcher that have been found, by an analyst conducting a laboratory analysis of a random sample of the leaves and flowering heads of the plants, to have a concentration of THC in their leaves and flowering heads of 3% or more.
5 A researcher, whose licence is subject to a condition prohibiting the researcher from dealing with class A research cannabis plants and seed, must ensure, as far as practicable, that cannabis seed supplied to the researcher by a person in another State or a foreign country is certified as seed that, if grown, will produce cannabis plants with a THC concentration in their leaves and flowering heads of less than 3%.
6 A researcher must carry out activities under the researcher’s licence in accordance with the approved research plan for the licence.

Part 3 - Particular conditions for grower licences

7 A grower must allow an inspector to destroy, or supervise the destruction of, cannabis plants in the possession of the grower that have been found, by an analyst conducting a laboratory analysis of a random sample of the leaves and flowering heads of the plants, to have a THC concentration in their leaves and flowering heads of more than 1%.

Part 4 - Particular conditions for seed handler licences

8 A seed handler must—
(a) ensure all industrial cannabis seed in the possession of the seed handler is labelled to state—
(i) if the seed is cannabis seed harvested from an industrial cannabis plant—that fact; or
(ii) if the seed is intended to be used or supplied as planting seed—the required particulars; and
Note—
See section 27C for additional labelling requirements.
(b) pack all industrial cannabis seed to be delivered to someone else by a carrier in a way that ensures, as far as reasonably practicable, seed can not escape from the packaging or be accidentally released or tampered with.