Western Australian Current Acts

INDUSTRIAL HEMP ACT 2004

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 -- Preliminary  

   1.      Short title
            
   2.      Commencement
            
   3.      Terms used in this Act

   PART 2 -- Licensing

           Division 1 -- Licence required to cultivate, harvest or process industrial hemp  

   4.      Licensing requirement

           Division 2 -- Application for and grant of a licence or a renewal or transfer of a licence  

   5.      Applications
            
   6.      Investigations and inquiries relating to applications
            
   7.      Application for licence by individual
            
   8.      Grant of licence to an individual
            
   9.      Application for a licence by partnership
            
   10.     Grant of licence to a partnership
            
   11.     Application for licence by a body corporate
            
   12.     Grant of licence to a body corporate
            
   13.     Notice of refusal of application
            
   14.     Issue of licence
            
   15.     Duration of licence
            
   16.     Application for renewal of licence
            
   17.     Grounds for refusing to renew a licence
            
   18.     Conditions
            
   19.     Amendment of licence
            
   20.     Return of licence no longer in force
            
   21.     Transfer of licence

           Division 3 -- Changes in partnership or body corporate  

   22.     Loss of member etc., notice to be given to Registrar
            
   23.     New member in licensed partnership
            
   24.     New person in management of corporate member of licensed partnership
            
   25.     New person in management of licensed body corporate
            
   26.     Licence ceases if changes not approved
            
   27.     Offence to make management changes without applying for approval

   PART 3 -- Provisions applicable to licences  

   28.     False or misleading information
            
   29.     Contravention of conditions of a licence
            
   30.     Registers
            
   31.     Inspection of register
            
   32.     Registrar may certify as to matters in the register
            
   33.     Surrender of licence
            
   34.     Certified copy of licence
            
   35.     Production of licence

   PART 4 -- Appeals  

   36.     Appeals

   PART 5 -- Enforcement  

   37.     Suspension or cancellation of licence
            
   38.     Inspectors
            
   39.     General powers
            
   40.     Powers of approved analyst or botanist
            
   41.     Requirement to notify Commissioner
            
   42.     Inspector may possess cannabis for purposes of this Act
            
   43.     Inspector’s powers additional to other powers

   PART 6 -- Miscellaneous  

   44.     Term used in this PART
            
   45.     Registrar
            
   46.     Delegation by Registrar
            
   47.     Delegation by the Commissioner
            
   48.     Regulations

   PART 7 -- Consequential amendments to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1981  

   49.     The Act amended
            
   50.     Section 3 amended
            
   51.     Section 4 amended
            
   52.     Section 6 amended
            
   53.     Section 7 amended
            
   54.     Section 8A inserted
            
   8A.     Defences relating to industrial hemp or industrial hemp seed 30

   PART 8 -- Consequential amendment to the Poisons Act 1964  

   55.     The Act amended
            
   7A.     Application: industrial hemp, industrial hemp seed and processed industrial hemp 34
           Defined terms
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