Queensland Legislation
An Act to regulate distribution and use of medicinal cannabis in Queensland and to amend the Health Act 1937 and the Health (Drugs and Poisons) Regulation 1996 for particular purposes The Parliament of Queensland enacts—
Chapter 1 Preliminary
1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Public Health (Medicinal Cannabis) Act 2016 .
2 Commencement This Act commences on a day to be fixed by proclamation.
3 Act binds all persons (1) This Act binds all persons including the State and, as far as the legislative power of the Parliament permits, the Commonwealth and the other States. (2) Nothing in this Act makes the State, the Commonwealth or another State liable to be prosecuted for an offence against this Act.
4 Object of Act The object of this Act is to provide for regulated access to medicinal cannabis in Queensland through— (a) the prescription of medicinal cannabis, under a system of medicinal cannabis approvals, by single-patient prescribers; and (b) the prescription of medicinal cannabis, without medicinal cannabis approvals, by patient-class prescribers.
Chapter 2 Interpretation
5 Definitions The dictionary in schedule 1 defines particular words used in this Act.
6 Meaning of medicinal cannabis (1) Medicinal cannabis is a cannabis product that is— (a) not an approved good; and (b) used, or is intended by the manufacturer of the product to be used, for human therapeutic purposes. In this section— approved good means a registered good or a listed good under the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 (Cwlth).
7 Meaning of cannabis product A cannabis product is any product— (a) that is or was any part of a plant of the genus Cannabis, whether living or dead; or (b) otherwise derived, wholly or in part, from any part of a plant of the genus Cannabis, whether living or dead; or (c) that has, or is intended by the manufacturer of the product to have, a pharmacological effect that is substantially similar to the pharmacological effect of a product mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b).
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