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Drugs Misuse Act 1986
sec.45Ways of achieving part’s objects
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### sec.45 Ways of achieving part’s objects
The ways of achieving this part’s objects include enabling the following activities to be carried out under controlled conditions—
commercial production of industrial cannabis fibre and seed;
research into the use of industrial cannabis as a commercial fibre and seed crop;
field trials using fertilisers or irrigation and different planting rates
plant breeding programs using class A or class B research cannabis plants and seed, but only for developing new or improved strains of cannabis for use by growers for the commercial production of industrial cannabis fibre and seed.
Another way of achieving this part’s objects is to enable research to be carried out into—
how cannabis seed may be denatured; and
how processed cannabis may be used.
s 45 ins 2002 No. 35 s 7
(sec.45-ssec.1) The ways of achieving this part’s objects include enabling the following activities to be carried out under controlled conditions— commercial production of industrial cannabis fibre and seed; research into the use of industrial cannabis as a commercial fibre and seed crop; field trials using fertilisers or irrigation and different planting rates plant breeding programs using class A or class B research cannabis plants and seed, but only for developing new or improved strains of cannabis for use by growers for the commercial production of industrial cannabis fibre and seed.
(sec.45-ssec.2) Another way of achieving this part’s objects is to enable research to be carried out into— how cannabis seed may be denatured; and how processed cannabis may be used.
- (a) commercial production of industrial cannabis fibre and seed;
- (b) research into the use of industrial cannabis as a commercial fibre and seed crop; Example of research for paragraph (b) — field trials using fertilisers or irrigation and different planting rates
- (c) plant breeding programs using class A or class B research cannabis plants and seed, but only for developing new or improved strains of cannabis for use by growers for the commercial production of industrial cannabis fibre and seed.
- (a) how cannabis seed may be denatured; and
- (b) how processed cannabis may be used.