Monitoring and compliance
We monitor the legal cultivation, production and manufacture of controlled drugs. We have compliance activities like inspections, fines (infringement notices) and court action.
Our Authorised Inspectors monitor licence and permit holders who cultivate, produce and manufacture narcotic drugs. Inspections seek to increase the knowledge of licence and permit holders to meet their regulatory obligations and to prevent any diversion of narcotic drugs away from the regulated supply chain and into the illegal market.
We also issue fines through infringement notices when we believe there has been an offence against the Narcotic Drugs Act 1967 (the Act). We save our strongest actions, such as criminal prosecution, for serious or high-risk non-compliance.
News
Consultation on the Narcotic Drugs Regulation 2016 and the Narcotic Drugs (Licence Charges) Regulation 2016
We are consulting on the proposed remaking of the Narcotic Drugs Regulation 2016 and the Narcotic Drugs (Licence Charges) Regulation 2016 (legislative instruments), which are scheduled to sunset on 1 April 2027.Medicinal Cannabis Expert Working Group, Meeting 7
MCEWG Meeting 7 highlights medicinal cannabis policy developments, TGA consultation findings, research updates and the group's renewed tenure.Hale Farm Pty Ltd fined $19,800 for alleged breach of the Narcotic Drugs Act
Infringement notice issued to Hale Farm Pty Ltd totalling $19,800 for an alleged breach of its medicinal cannabis licence.