New Classes of Practitioners Regulations

Marginal note:Permitted activities

• 3 (1) Subject to section 4, a midwife, nurse practitioner or podiatrist, as a practitioner, may prescribe or possess a listed substance, or conduct an activity with a listed substance, in accordance with the Benzodiazepines and Other Targeted Substances Regulations, Part G of the Food and Drug Regulations or the Narcotic Control Regulations if they are permitted to prescribe, in their practice under the laws of the province in which they are registered and entitled to practise, that substance.

• Marginal note:Dried marihuana

  (2) As provided by the Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations, a nurse practitioner, as a practitioner, may conduct an activity in respect of dried marihuana in accordance with section 3 or 128 of those Regulations if

  • (a) they are permitted to prescribe dried marihuana in their practice under the laws of the province in which they are registered and entitled to practise; and

  • (b) they are not named in a notice issued under section 59 of the Narcotic Control Regulations that has not been retracted under section 60 of those Regulations.

• Definition of dried marihuana

  (3) For the purpose of subsection (2), dried marihuana has the same meaning as in subsection 1(1) of the Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations.