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Health Miscellaneous Amendments Bill 2019
The purpose of this Bill is to make a number of minor and technical amendments
to the Ambulance Service Act 1982, Food Act 2003, Mental Health Act 2013,
Pharmacy Control Act 2001, Poisons Act 1971 and the Public Health Act 1997.
Changes to the Ambulance Act update the definition of non-emergency patient
transport to better reflect the current and expected scope of these services and
to proportionately amend penalty provisions in the Act
The Bill makes amendments to the Food Act 2003 to primarily reduce red-tape.
These amendments focus on unnecessary duplication and improved
administrative processes.
The Bill will permit a single state-wide notification of a mobile food business,
rather than separate notifications in each relevant council. This supports the
change to the Food Act in 2015 that extended single state-wide registration to all
mobile food businesses.
The Bill varies the fees provisions in the Pharmacy Control Act to provide a head
of power to charge fees for pharmacy depots.
The Bill includes a minor amendment in respect of poppy grower’s licence
renewals under the Poisons Act 1971. With the move from annual licences to
licenses of up to five years duration, more late applications are likely to be
received from poppy growers. Currently any late application after the expiry of a
licence must be treated as a new application under the Act. The Bill will allow for
a period of three months following the expiry of a license where a late application
can be processed as a renewal of licence rather than a new application.
Other changes correct erroneous cross references in Acts, update definitions and
otherwise clarify wording in Acts to remove ambiguity from current provisions.
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