Drugs Misuse (Fees for Commercial Production of Industrial Cannabis) Amendment Regulation 2022


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1Short title

This regulation may be cited as the Drugs Misuse (Fees for Commercial Production of Industrial Cannabis) Amendment Regulation 2022.

2Regulation amended

This regulation amends the Drugs Misuse Regulation 1987.

3Replacement of s 28 (Licence fees—Act, ss 54 and 65)

Section 28—
omit, insert—

28Fees

The fees payable under the Act are stated in section 28A and schedule 8E.

28AMonitoring fees—Act, s 110G

(1)For section 110G(1) of the Act, the monitoring fee for the monitoring of activities performed under a relevant authority is stated in schedule 8E, item 8.
(2)The fee stated in schedule 8E, item 8 may consist of, or include, an amount for part of an hour that is the equivalent of the relevant proportion of the hourly rate, stated in the schedule, worked out using 15-minute periods (wholly or partly completed).
(3)Subsection (4) applies if in the course of monitoring an activity performed under a relevant authority—
(a)an inspector takes a sample of cannabis under section 101(b) of the Act; and
(b)the sample is analysed to determine the THC concentration of the sample.
(4)For section 110G(1) of the Act, the monitoring fee is the actual cost to the department of analysing the sample.
(5)The monitoring fee under subsection (4) is in addition to the monitoring fee stated in schedule 8E, item 8.

4Insertion of new sch 8E

After schedule 8D—
insert—

Schedule 8E Fees

sections 28 and 28A

$

1

Application fee for a researcher licence (Act, s 54(2)(a))

1,942.95

2

Application fee for a grower licence (Act, s 54(2)(a))

1,304.95

3

Application fee for a seed handler licence (Act, s 54(2)(a))

435.65

4

Licence renewal fee for a researcher licence (Act, s 65(2)(d)(i))

1,572.85

5

Licence renewal fee for a grower licence (Act, s 65(2)(d)(i))

1,059.95

6

Licence renewal fee for a seed handler licence (Act, s 65(2)(d)(i))

435.65

7

Application fee for amendment of a licence or a condition of a licence (Act, s 70(2))

294.95

8

Monitoring of an activity performed under a relevant authority, for each hour involved (Act, s 110G(1))

322.05

 

Notes—

1  See section 28A(2) in relation to a fee for part of an hour.
2  See section 28A(4) in relation to the cost of analysing the concentration of THC in a sample.