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DRUGS, POISONS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT 1981 - SECT 55Q Regulations for this Part

DRUGS, POISONS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT 1981 - SECT 55Q

Regulations for this Part

    (1)     The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to—

        (a)     prescribing standards for the operation of the licensed medically supervised injecting centre;

        (b)     prescribing the content and use of internal management protocols;

        (c)     prescribing a drug of dependence, or a class of drug of dependence, as an injecting centre drug;

        (d)     prescribing permitted quantities of injecting centre drugs;

        (e)     prescribing matters relating to the use, supply, possession or administration of injecting centre drugs and permitted quantities of injecting centre drugs;

        (f)     qualifications or experience of persons engaged in the operation of the licensed medically supervised injecting centre, including, but not limited to, staff of the centre;

        (g)     functions of persons engaged in the operation of the licensed medically supervised injecting centre, including, but not limited to, staff of the centre;

        (h)     prescribing any other matter or thing required to be prescribed by this Part or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to this Part.

    (2)     Regulations made under this section—

        (a)     may be of general or limited application; and

        (b)     may differ according to differences in time, place or circumstance; and

        (c)     may confer powers or discretions or impose duties on any person or other entity or on a specified person or other entity or class of persons or other entities; and

        (d)     may provide in a specified case or class of cases for the exemption of persons, other entities or things or a class of persons, other entities or things from any of the provisions of the regulations—

              (i)     whether unconditionally or on specified conditions; and

              (ii)     either wholly or to the extent specified in the regulations.

S. 55R inserted by No. 66/2017 s. 7, repealed by No. 7/2023 s. 8.

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