Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00536:section:4:p2
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Provision Reference: s 4 (pt 2/5)
Character Range: 14963–17759

Force Act 2015.
Convention means the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, done at New York on 30 March 1961, as amended by the Protocol and as in force from time to time.
Note: A copy of the English text of the Convention, as amended and in force at the commencement of section 1 of the Narcotic Drugs Amendment Act 2016, is set out in Schedule 1.
cultivate a cannabis plant includes the following:
 (a) sow a seed of a cannabis plant;
 (b) plant, grow, tend, nurture or harvest a cannabis plant;
 (c) graft, divide or transplant a cannabis plant;
but does not include the separation of cannabis or cannabis resin from a cannabis plant.
decision on review: see subsection 15H(5).
drug means any substance that is a drug for the purposes of the Convention, and includes the following:
 (a) any substance prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph;
 (b) any substance prescribed by the regulations under section 8 of this Act.
fit and proper person: see sections 8A and 8B.
guidelines means guidelines issued by the Minister under section 26C.
handling includes stacking, stowing, storing, transporting, loading, unloading and any operation incidental to, or arising out of, any of those operations.
head of an agency means:
 (a) if the agency is a court—the registrar (however described) of the court; or
 (b) otherwise—the principal officer (however described) of the agency.
internal reviewer: see subsection 15H(1).
issuing officer means:
 (a) a Judge of a court created by the Parliament; or
 (b) a Deputy President of the Administrative Review Tribunal; or
 (c) a senior member or general member of the Administrative Review Tribunal who:
 (i) is enrolled as a legal practitioner of the High Court, or the Supreme Court of a State or Territory; and
 (ii) has been so enrolled for at least 5 years.
law enforcement agency means the following:
 (a) a body, agency or organisation that is responsible for, or deals with, law enforcement, criminal intelligence, criminal investigation, fraud or security intelligence in, or in a part of, Australia;
 (b) a body, agency or organisation prescribed by the regulations.
licence means:
 (a) a manufacture licence; or
 (b) a medicinal cannabis licence.
licensed premises means premises at which activities authorised under a licence take place.
manufacture licence: see subsection 11G(1).
manufacture permit: see subsection 12(1).
medicinal cannabis licence: see subsection 8E(1).
medicinal cannabis permit: see subsection 8P(1).
narcotic drug means a drug other than a cannabis drug.
narcotic preparation means any mixture, whether solid or liquid, that contains a drug.
offence against this Act includes an offence against the Crimes Act 1914 or the Criminal Code that relates to this Act.
opium has the same meaning as in