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Improving Access to Medicinal Cannabis Bill 2023

2022-2023

 

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

 

THE SENATE

 

 

 

 

Presented and read a first time

 

 

 

 

Improving Access to Medicinal Cannabis Bill 2023

 

No.      , 2023

 

(Senator Hanson)

 

 

 

A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to the regulation of products made or that contain cannabis, and for related purposes

   

   



Contents

1............ Short title............................................................................................ 1

2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1

3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                                                 3

Therapeutic Goods (Poisons Standard—February 2023) Instrument 2023       3

 

 



A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to the regulation of products made or that contain cannabis, and for related purposes

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1   Short title

                   This Act is the Improving Access to Medicinal Cannabis Act 2023 .

2   Commencement

             (1)  Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of the Act

The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.

 

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

             (2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3   Schedules

                   Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Note:          The provisions of the Therapeutic Goods (Poisons Standard—February 2023) Instrument 2023 amended or inserted by this Act, and any other provisions of that instrument, may be amended or repealed by instruments made under section 52D of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 (see subsection 13(5) of the Legislation Act 2003 ).