Cannabis Regulations (SOR/2018-144)

Marginal note:Quarterly reports

• 300 (1) A provincial professional licensing authority may submit a written request to a holder of a licence for sale to obtain information, on a quarterly basis, in respect of each client who is registered with the holder on the basis of a medical document that was signed by a health care practitioner who

  • (a) was, at the time that they signed the medical document, entitled to practise the profession regulated by the licensing authority in the province in question; and

  • (b) was consulted in that province.

• Marginal note:Report

  (2) A holder that has received a request referred to in subsection (1) must, after the end of each quarter and in accordance with subsection (3), provide the provincial professional licensing authority with a report containing the following information in respect of each client referred to in subsection (1) who was validly registered at any time during the relevant quarter, together with details of any changes to the information that occurred during the quarter:

  • (a) the client’s given name, surname and date of birth;

  • (b) the postal code for the address that was provided under paragraph 279(2)(b), together with the province specified in the address;

  • (c) the given name, surname and business address of the health care practitioner who signed the medical document, together with the number assigned by the province to the health care practitioner’s authorization to practise;

  • (d) the daily quantity of dried cannabis specified in the medical document;

  • (e) the period of use specified in the medical document;

  • (f) the date on which the medical document was signed by the health care practitioner; and

  • (g) for each shipment of cannabis products that was sent or delivered during the quarter,

    • (i) the date it was sent or delivered,

    • (ii) the quantity of cannabis that was sent or delivered, expressed in grams, and

    • (iii) the class of cannabis set out in Schedule 4 to the Act to which the cannabis products belong.

• Marginal note:Quarterly deadlines

  (3) The report must be provided to the provincial professional licensing authority no later than

  • (a) April 30 of a given year for the quarter beginning on January 1 and ending on March 31 of that year;

  • (b) July 31 of a given year for the quarter beginning on April 1 and ending on June 30 of that year;

  • (c) October 31 of a given year for the quarter beginning on July 1 and ending on September 30 of that year; and

  • (d) January 31 of a given year for the quarter beginning on October 1 and ending on December 31 of the previous year.

• Marginal note:First report

  (4) For greater certainty, the first quarter in respect of which a report must be provided is the quarter in which the request is received from the provincial professional licensing authority.

• Marginal note:Notice

  (5) If the holder has no information to include in a report for a quarter, they must send a notice to that effect to the provincial professional licensing authority by the relevant deadline referred to in subsection (3).

• Marginal note:Cessation of activities

  (6) If the holder ceases to conduct activities, they must, despite subsection (3), provide the provincial professional licensing authority with the report for the quarter in which the activities cease within 30 days after ceasing them.

• Marginal note:Cancellation

  (7) The provincial professional licensing authority may, at any time, send the holder a notice cancelling the request referred to in subsection (1), in which case the final quarter in respect of which a report must be provided is the one that precedes the quarter in which the notice is received.

• Marginal note:Transmission and format

  (8) A holder, or former holder, that provides a report to a provincial professional licensing authority under this section must transmit it securely in an electronic format that is accessible to the licensing authority.