Victorian Numbered Acts

HEALTH LEGISLATION AMENDMENT AND REPEAL ACT 2019 (NO. 34 OF 2019)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purposes  
   2.      Commencement  

   PART 2--REPEAL OF ACCESS TO MEDICINAL CANNABIS ACT 2016 AND RELATED AMENDMENTS

           Division 1--Repeal

   3.      Repeal of Access to Medicinal Cannabis Act 2016  

           Division 2--Amendment of Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981

   4.      Definitions  
   5.      Act not to derogate from provisions of certain other Acts  
   6.      Persons authorized to have possession etc. of poisons or controlled substances  
   7.      What a licence, permit or warrant can authorise  
   8.      Manufacture, sale and supply of poisons or controlled substances by wholesale  
   9.      Wholesaling of certain poisons  
   10.     Retailing of poisons or controlled substances  
   11.     Sale of poisons or controlled substances by persons other than manufacturers etc.  
   12.     Offences concerning labelling and other matters  
   13.     Sale of substances in unauthorised containers  
   14.     Section 31A repealed  
   15.     Effect of Division 10A of Part II  
   16.     Administration of drugs of dependence, Schedule 9 poisons, Schedule 8 poisons and Schedule 4 poisons in aged care services  
   17.     Inspections  
   18.     Duties of officers in relation to seized substances  
   19.     Persons who are liable for contravention of Act  
   20.     Section 61A repealed  
   21.     Trafficking in a drug or drugs of dependence—large commercial quantity  
   22.     Trafficking in a drug or drugs of dependence—commercial quantity  
   23.     Trafficking in a drug of dependence to a child  
   24.     Trafficking in a drug of dependence  
   25.     Possession of substance, material, documents or equipment for trafficking in a drug of dependence  
   26.     Supply of drug of dependence to a child  
   27.     Possession of tablet press  
   28.     Possession of precursor chemicals  
   29.     Possession of document containing information about trafficking or cultivating a drug of dependence  
   30.     Publication of document containing instructions  
   31.     Cultivation of narcotic plants—large commercial quantity  
   32.     Cultivation of narcotic plants—commercial quantity  
   33.     Cultivation of narcotic plants  
   34.     Permitting use of premises for trafficking or cultivation of drug of dependence  
   35.     Possession of a drug of dependence  
   36.     Introduction of a drug of dependence into the body of another person  
   37.     Use of drug of dependence  
   38.     Forging prescriptions and orders for drugs of dependence  
   39.     Obtaining a drug of dependence etc. by false representation  
   40.     Definitions—Part VC  
   41.     Section 80TA substituted  
   42.     List of licences and permits  
   43.     Proof that a substance is poison etc.  
   44.     Section 129A repealed  

           Division 3--Consequential amendment of Crimes Act 1958

   45.     Definitions  
   46.     Effect of intoxication on reasonable belief  
   47.     Intoxication  

           Division 4--Consequential amendment of other Acts

   48.     Definitions—Guardianship and Administration Act 1986  
   49.     Definitions—Health Records Act 2001  
   50.     Definitions—Medical Treatment Planning and Decisions Act 2016  
   51.     Definitions—Pharmacy Regulation Act 2010  
   52.     Disclosure of information to other agencies—Pharmacy Regulation Act 2010  
   53.     Cruelty—Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1986  

   PART 3--AMENDMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1988--OFFENCES

   54.     Section 111 substituted  

   PART 4--AMENDMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1988

   55.     Definition of multi purpose service  
   56.     Amendment of Schedules  
   57.     Removal and resignation—public hospitals  
   58.     Removal and resignation—multi purpose services  
   59.     Terms and conditions  
   60.     Regulations  
   61.      Schedule 1—Public hospitals  
   62.     Schedule 1A inserted  
   63.     Schedule 4—Privately-operated hospitals  
   64.     Schedule 5—Public health services  

   PART 5--AMENDMENT OF TOBACCO ACT 1987

   65.     Tobacco or e-cigarette advertisements  
   66.     Certain advertising prohibited  
   67.     Exemptions  

   PART 6--AMENDMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2014

   68.     Definitions  
   69.     Confidentiality obligations applying in respect of information from clinical practice audit or clinical review  
   70.     Functions of the Commissioner  
   71.     Referred complaints  
   72.     Complaint to which National Law may also apply  
   73.     Commissioner may accept complaints and undertakings  
   74.     Conciliation process  
   75.     Discontinuation of conciliation  
   76.     Section 247 repealed  
   77.     Conciliation agreements  
   78.     Section 249 substituted  
   79.     Secrecy  
   80.     Mental health service providers to report on complaints  
   81.     New Division 3 of Part 16A inserted  

   PART 7--AMENDMENT OF HEALTH COMPLAINTS ACT 2016

   82.     Non-disclosure of information—investigations, complaint data reviews  
   83.     Non-disclosure of information—complaint resolution processes  
   84.     Non-disclosure of information given in conciliation  

   PART 8--AMENDMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1988--AMENDMENTS RELATING TO INFORMATION SHARING

           Division 1--Amendment of Health Services Act 1988

   85.     New Part 6B inserted  

           Division 2--Consequential amendments

   86.     Amendment of Health Records Act 2001  
   87.     Amendment of Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014  

   PART 9--REPEAL OF THIS ACT

   88.     Repeal of this Act  
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