DRUGS, POISONS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT 1981 - SECT 139 Transitional provisions relating to licences—Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances and Therapeutic Goods (Victoria) Acts (Amendment) Act 2004

DRUGS, POISONS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT 1981 - SECT 139

    (1)     An application for a new licence of a kind referred to in section 20(1)(b) or (e) of this Act as in force immediately before the commencement of the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances and Therapeutic Goods (Victoria) Acts (Amendment) Act 2004 or for the renewal of such a licence must be taken to be an application for a licence or for its renewal (as the case requires) of a kind of licence referred to in the relevant section as amended by the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances and Therapeutic Goods (Victoria) Acts (Amendment) Act 2004 .

    (2)     A licence—

        (a)     of a kind referred to in section 20(1)(b) or (e) of this Act as in force immediately before the commencement of the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances and Therapeutic Goods (Victoria) Acts (Amendment) Act 2004 (including a suspended licence); and

        (b)     in existence at the date of that commencement—

must be taken to have been issued under this Act as amended by the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances and Therapeutic Goods (Victoria) Acts (Amendment) Act 2004 and may be renewed, amended, suspended or cancelled accordingly.

    (3)     The amendments to section 20(1)(b) and (e) made by the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances and Therapeutic Goods (Victoria) Acts (Amendment) Act 2004 do not affect the continuity or suspension of a licence of a kind referred to in section 20(1)(b) or (e) of this Act as in force immediately before the commencement of that Act.

S. 140 inserted by No. 52/2006 s. 16.