Queensland Numbered Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH (MEDICINAL CANNABIS) ACT 2016 - SECT 214

214 Requests by chief executive for information

(1) Subsection (2) applies if the chief executive considers a public entity has information, including confidential information, that is necessary for the chief executive to—

(a) perform the chief executive’s functions under this Act; and

(b) prevent an imminent diversion risk or substance risk for medicinal cannabis.

(2) The chief executive may, by notice, ask the public entity to give the information to the chief executive within a stated reasonable time.

(3) The public entity must comply with the notice unless the entity reasonably considers the disclosure of the information—

(a) would prejudice the investigation of a contravention, or possible contravention, of a law; or

(b) would prejudice the effectiveness of a lawful method or procedure for preventing, detecting, investigating or dealing with a contravention or possible contravention of a law; or

(c) would endanger a person’s life or physical safety.

(4) However, in complying with the notice, the public entity and the chief executive must ensure—

(a) the information given to the chief executive relates only to the chief executive’s functions under this Act; and

(b) to the extent possible, the privacy of a person to whom the information relates is protected from unjustified intrusion.

(5) In this section—

"public entity" means a public sector unit and includes the chief executive, however described, of a public sector unit.