Poisons Act 1971 (TAS)

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Poisons Act 1971

[Long Title Amended by No. 27 of 1984, s. 4 ]An Act to make provision with respect to the regulation, control, and prohibition of the importation, making, refining, preparation, sale, supply, use, possession, and prescription of certain substances and plants and matters incidental thereto, and to repeal certain enactments

[Royal Assent 14 December 1971]

Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:

PART IPreliminary1Short title and commencement (1)  This Act may be cited as the Poisons Act 1971. (2)  Subsection (1) of section 2 shall commence on the day on which Part III commences and subsection (2) of that section shall commence on the day on which Part V commences. (3)  The remaining provisions of this Act (other than this section, Division 1 of Part II, and section 14 ) shall commence on such days respectively as are fixed by proclamation in relation to each of those provisions. 23Interpretation [Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 43 of 1982, s. 66 and Sched. 3 ][Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 99 of 1982, s. 3 and Sched. 2 ][Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 27 of 1984, s. 5 ][Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 51 of 1985, s. 4 and Sched. 2 ][Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 5 of 1990, s. 3 and Sched. 1 ][Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 4 of 1991, s. 39 and Sched. 4 ][Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 68 of 1994, s. 3 and Sched. 1 ][Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 100 of 1995, s. 97 and Sched. 7 ][Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 2 of 1996, s. 87 and Sched. 7 ] (1)  [Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 95 of 1973, s. 2 ] In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears – aircraft includes a helicopter, a hovercraft, and an autogiro; [Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 40 of 2016, s. 4, Applied:17 Oct 2016] alkaloid poppy means a plant of the species Papaver somniferum or Papaver bracteatum; [Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 40 of 2016, s. 4, Applied:17 Oct 2016] alkaloid poppy material means a part or product of an alkaloid poppy; [Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 73 of 2013, Sched. 1, Applied:01 Jul 2014] ambulance officer means an officer of the Ambulance Service as defined in the Ambulance Service Act 1982; [Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 73 of 2013, Sched. 1, Applied:01 Jul 2014] ambulance services has the same meaning as in the Ambulance Service Act 1982; analysis, in relation to a substance, includes any bacteriological, biochemical, electrical, electrochemical, microscopical, pathological, or other examination or test of or applied to the substance; analyst means a person appointed as…

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