Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2021A00056:clause:2_8
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2021A00056
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 8
Character Range: 52208–53419

8  Pending applications for variation of existing permits
(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 permit; or
 (ii) a cannabis research permit; or
 (iii) a cannabis manufacture permit; 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 permit or a converted permit; and
 (d) the permit to which the application relates is the permit that became the preserved permit or the converted permit (as the case may be).
(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 permit or converted permit (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.

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