Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2021A00056:clause:2_7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2021A00056
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 7
Character Range: 50971–52208

7  Pending applications for variation of existing licences
(1) This item applies if:
 (a) before the transition time, a person made an application under the Narcotic Drugs Act for a variation of:
 (i) a medicinal cannabis licence; or
 (ii) a cannabis research licence; or
 (iii) a cannabis manufacture licence; and
 (b) immediately before the transition time, the Secretary has not made a decision on the application; and
 (c) at the transition time, the person holds a preserved licence or a converted licence; and
 (d) the licence to which the application relates is either:
 (i) a licence that became a preserved licence; or
 (ii) a licence that has been converted into a converted licence.
(2) Both of the following apply in relation to the application:
 (a) the application is taken, immediately after the transition time, to be an application (the deemed application) made under subsection 10M(1) of the Narcotic Drugs Act, as amended by Schedule 1 to this Act, for a variation of the preserved licence or the converted licence (as the case may be);
 (b) after that time, the deemed application may be dealt with, or may continue to be dealt with, under Division 4 of Part 2 of Chapter 2 of the Narcotics Drugs Act, as so amended.