Cannabis Regulations

Marginal note:Return of cannabis products

• 292 (1) An individual to whom cannabis products are sold under section 289 — or a designated person to whom cannabis plants or cannabis plant seeds are sent or delivered under section 291 — may return the cannabis products if the holder of the licence for sale accepts the return.

• Marginal note:Manner of return

  (2) The individual who is returning the cannabis products must, subject to subsection (3), send them or have them delivered to the holder of the licence for sale or the holder of a licence for processing or cultivation, as indicated by the holder of the licence for sale.

• Marginal note:Health care practitioner

  (3) In the case of cannabis products that were transferred to the individual by a health care practitioner who had consented under subsection 280(1) to receive them, the individual who is returning the cannabis products may, with the consent of the health care practitioner, give them, send them or have them delivered to the health care practitioner.

• Marginal note:Parcel — requirements

  (4) The individual who is returning the cannabis products must, if they are sending or having delivered cannabis plants — or other cannabis products in respect of which the total quantity of cannabis exceeds the equivalent of 30 g of dried cannabis,

  • (a) prepare the parcel in a manner that ensures the security of its contents, such that

    • (i) it will not open or permit the escape of its contents during handling and transportation,

    • (ii) it is sealed so that it cannot be opened without the seal being broken,

    • (iii) except in the case of cannabis plants, it prevents the escape of odours associated with cannabis plant material, and

    • (iv) it prevents its contents from being identified without it being opened; and

  • (b) use a method that ensures the tracking and safekeeping of the parcel during transportation.

• Marginal note:Return by health care practitioner

  (5) A health care practitioner must ensure that the requirements set out in paragraphs (4)(a) and (b) are met if they are sending or having delivered cannabis products referred to in subsection (4) that have been returned to them under subsection (3).