DRUGS, POISONS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT 1981 - SECT 69OE Employee of licensed grower authorised to undertake activities under licence
DRUGS, POISONS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT 1981 - SECT 69OE
Employee of licensed grower authorised to undertake activities under licence(1) For the purposes of this Act, an employee of a licensed grower who holds a poppy cultivation licence for commercial purposes relating to therapeutic use, is authorised to carry out any activity under the licence involving the cultivation or possession of alkaloid poppies or the sale or supply of poppy straw to a licensed processor required of the employee in the course of his or her employment.
(2) For the purposes of this Act, an employee of a licensed grower who holds a poppy cultivation licence for research purposes relating to non‑therapeutic use, is authorised to carry out any activity under the licence, including the following, that is required of the employee in the course of his or her employment—
(a) to cultivate or possess alkaloid poppies; and
(b) to conduct measurements, analyses and extractions including extraction of alkaloids from alkaloid poppies for chemical analyses at specified premises; and
(c) to supply alkaloid poppies or poppy straw to a licensed processor.
(3) An employee must only undertake an activity authorised under subsection (1) or (2) in relation to his or her employment.
S. 69OF inserted by No. 13/2014 s. 4.