Victoria bill

Hemp Industry Bill 2024

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Jurisdiction

Victoria

Making Date

2024-01-01

Collection

bill

Parliamentary Progress

IntroducedFirst ReadingSecond ReadingCommitteePassed HousePassed SenatePassed BothRoyal Assent

Plain English Summary

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What this Bill generally does (provisional — based on typical hemp-industry laws; I don’t have the bill text itself)

Creates a regulated legal framework for growing, processing and selling hemp and hemp products in Victoria.
Sets out who must be licensed (for example, growers, processors, seed merchants, and sometimes transporters and retailers) and the steps for applying, renewing and cancelling licences.
Defines what counts as “hemp” or “industrial hemp” (normally including a maximum tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) concentration, e.g. 0.3% or 1% on a dry weight basis) and specifies permitted uses (food, fibre, seed, cosmetics, textiles, animal feed, industrial uses).
Establishes testing, sampling and record-keeping requirements to verify THC levels and product safety; may require approved laboratories and set testing methods and sample-retention rules.
Creates a traceability or “chain-of-custody” system (seed-to-sale or crop-to-product), including requirements to label products and keep transaction records to distinguish legal hemp from prohibited cannabis.
Sets out offences and penalties for non-compliance (e.g. cultivating unauthorised crops, selling products that exceed THC limits, failing to comply with licence conditions, false labelling) and enforcement powers for inspectors (e.g. search, seizure, destruction of non-compliant crops/products).

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Source excerpts

Direct links to excerpts of the current source text in Hemp Industry Bill 2024.

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Document excerpt 1

Hemp Industry Bill 2024

Source: https://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/bills/hemp-industry-bill-2024

Status

Council - second reading

Introduction print – Bill

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601PM48bi1.pdf

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Introduction print – Explanatory Memorandum

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601PM48exi1.pdf

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601PM48exi1.docx

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First House: Legislative Council

First readingCouncil

Introduced by Ms Rachel Payne
First reading passed

20 Mar 2024
Statement of compatibility tabled

1 May 2024

Click Here to View the Statement of Compatibility

Second readingCouncil

Second reading moved

1 May 2024

Click Here to View the Second Reading Speech
Debate resumed

15 May 2024

Source text

Sourced from Victorian Legislation (legislation.vic.gov.au), CC BY 4.0.