Queensland Numbered Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH (MEDICINAL CANNABIS) ACT 2016 - SECT 172

172 Membership

(1) The chief executive may—

(a) appoint members of the expert advisory panel; and

(b) revise the membership of the panel by adding, or removing, panel members.

(2) The chief executive may appoint members under subsection (1)(a) on a permanent or temporary basis.

(3) In appointing a person as a member of the expert advisory panel, the chief executive must have regard to the person’s experience and expertise related to the manufacture and use of cannabis products for therapeutic purposes, including, for example, experience and expertise in the following areas—

(a) science or medicine;

(b) justice and law;

(c) ethics, culture or sociology;

(d) agriculture.