142Transitional provisions—Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Amendment Act 2008

142 Transitional provisions—Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Amendment Act 2008 (1) A notice given under section 33 as in force immediately before the commencement of Part 3 of the **Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Amendment Act 2008** is to be taken, on and from that commencement, to be a notification of drug-dependent person for the purposes of section 33 as substituted by that Act. (2) A permit issued by the Secretary under section 34 as in force immediately before the commencement of Part 3 of the **Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Amendment Act 2008** is to be taken, on and from that commencement, to be a Schedule 8 permit issued under section 34A or a Schedule 9 permit issued under section 33B, as the case requires, and— (a) may be amended, suspended or revoked as if it had been issued under section 34A or section 33B, as the case requires; and (b) authorises the medical practitioner or nurse practitioner to whom it was issued before that commencement to continue the administration, supply or prescription of the Schedule 8 poison or Schedule 9 poison to which the permit relates in accordance with that permit after that commencement as if the permit had been issued under this Act as amended by Part 3 of the **Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Amendment Act 2008**. (3) A notice published by the Secretary under section 35A for the purposes of section 35(2A) as in force immediately before the commencement of Part 3 of the **Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Amendment Act 2008** is to be taken, on and from that commencement, to be a notice published for the purposes of section 34D. S. 143 inserted by No. 48/2012 s. 42.