Narcotic Drugs (Licence Charges) Amendment (Cannabis) Regulations 2018

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 15 March 2018

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Greg Hunt

Minister for Health

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Narcotic Drugs (Licence Charges) Regulation 2016

1  Name

  This instrument is the Narcotic Drugs (Licence Charges) Amendment (Cannabis) Regulations 2018.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument 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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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

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

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Narcotic Drugs (Licence Charges) Act 2016.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Narcotic Drugs (Licence Charges) Regulation 2016

1  Paragraphs 6(a), (b) and (c)

Omit “$27,360”, substitute “$27,380”.

2  At the end of the instrument

Add:

7  Application provision relating to the Narcotic Drugs (Licence Charges) Amendment (Cannabis) Regulations 2018

  The amendment of section 6 made by the Narcotic Drugs (Licence Charges) Amendment (Cannabis) Regulations 2018 applies in relation to licences granted under the Narcotic Drugs Act 1967 on or after the commencement of this section.