Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (S.C. 1996, c. 19)
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Controlled Drugs and Substances Act
S.C. 1996, c. 19
Assented to 1996-06-20
An Act respecting the control of certain drugs, their precursors and other substances and to amend certain other Acts and repeal the Narcotic Control Act in consequence thereof
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
Short Title
Marginal note:Short title
1 This Act may be cited as the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.
Interpretation
Marginal note:Definitions
- adjudicator
adjudicator means a person appointed or employed under the Public Service Employment Act who performs the duties and functions of an adjudicator under this Act and the regulations; (arbitre)
- analogue
analogue means a substance that, in relation to a controlled substance, has a substantially similar chemical structure; (analogue)
- analyst
analyst means a person who is designated as an analyst under section 44; (analyste)
- Attorney General
Attorney General means
(a) the Attorney General of Canada, and includes their lawful deputy, or
(b) with respect to proceedings commenced at the instance of the government of a province and conducted by or on behalf of that government, the Attorney General of that province, and includes their lawful deputy; (procureur général)
- chemical offence-related property
chemical offence-related property means offence-related property that is a chemical or precursor and includes anything that contains such property or has such property on it; (bien infractionnel chimique)
- controlled substance
controlled substance means a substance included in Schedule I, II, III, IV or V; (substance désignée)
- customs office
customs office has the same meaning as in subsection 2(1) of the Customs Act; (bureau de douane)
- designated device
designated device means a device included in Schedule IX; (instrument désigné)
- designated substance offence
designated substance offence means
- inspector
inspector means a person who is designated as an inspector under section 30; (inspecteur)
- judge
judge means a judge as defined in section 552 of the Criminal Code or a judge of a superior court of criminal jurisdiction; (juge)
- justice
justice has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Criminal Code; (juge de paix)
- Minister
Minister means the Minister of Health; (ministre)
- non-chemical offence-related property
non-chemical offence-related property means offence-related property that is not chemical offence-related property; (bien infractionnel non-chimique)
- offence-related property
offence-related property means, with the exception of a controlled substance, any property, within or outside Canada,
- organization
organization has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Criminal Code. (organisation)
- person
person means an individual or an organization. (personne)
- possession
possession means possession within the meaning of subsection 4(3) of the Criminal Code; (possession)
- practitioner
practitioner means a person who is registered and entitled under the laws of a province to practise in that province the profession of medicine, dentistry or veterinary medicine, and includes any other person or class of persons prescribed as a practitioner; (praticien)
- precursor
precursor means a substance included in Schedule VI; (précurseur)
- prescribed
prescribed means prescribed by the regulations; (Version anglaise seulement)
- produce
produce means, in respect of a substance included in any of Schedules I to V, to obtain the substance by any method or process including
(a) manufacturing, synthesizing or using any means of altering the chemical or physical properties of the substance, or
(b) cultivating, propagating or harvesting the substance or any living thing from which the substance may be extracted or otherwise obtained,
and includes offer to produce; (production)
- provide
provide means to give, transfer or otherwise make available in any manner, whether directly or indirectly and whether or not for consideration; (fournir)
- sell
sell includes offer for sale, expose for sale, have in possession for sale and distribute, whether or not the distribution is made for consideration; (vente)
- traffic
traffic means, in respect of a substance included in any of Schedules I to V,
(a) to sell, administer, give, transfer, transport, send or deliver the substance,
(b) to sell an authorization to obtain the substance, or
(c) to offer to do anything mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b),
otherwise than under the authority of the regulations. (trafic)
Marginal note:Interpretation
(2) For the purposes of this Act,
Marginal note:Interpretation
(3) For the purposes of this Act, where a substance is expressly named in any of Schedules I to VI, it shall be deemed not to be included in any other of those Schedules.
- 1996, c. 8, s. 35, c. 19, s. 2
- 2001, c. 32, s. 47
- 2017, c. 7, s. 1
- 2018, c. 16, s. 194
Marginal note:Interpretation
3 (1) Every power or duty imposed under this Act that may be exercised or performed in respect of an offence under this Act may be exercised or performed in respect of a conspiracy, or an attempt to commit, being an accessory after the fact in relation to, or any counselling in relation to, an offence under this Act.
(2) [Repealed, 2017, c. 7, s. 2]
- 1995, c. 22, s. 18
- 1996, c. 19, s. 3
- 2017, c. 7, s. 2
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