Cannabis Regulations

Marginal note:Refusal to issue, renew or amend — other grounds

29 For the purpose of paragraph 62(7)(h) of the Act, other grounds for refusing to issue, renew or amend a licence are the following:

• (a) an individual who is required to hold a security clearance under section 50 in respect of an application does not hold such a security clearance;

• (b) in respect of the renewal or amendment of a licence, the holder of the licence does not hold a cannabis licence issued under subsection 14(1.1) of the Excise Act, 2001, if it is required;

• (c) in respect of the issuance or amendment of a licence for cultivation, the site proposed in the application would be authorized by another licence for cultivation;

• (d) in respect of the issuance or amendment of a licence for micro-cultivation, the site proposed in the application would be authorized by a licence for standard processing and a licence for micro-cultivation;

• (e) in respect of the issuance or amendment of a licence for standard cultivation, the site proposed in the application would be authorized by a licence for micro-processing and a licence for standard cultivation;

• (f) in respect of the issuance or amendment of a licence for a nursery, the site proposed in the application would be authorized by a licence for processing and a licence for a nursery;

• (g) in respect of the issuance or amendment of a licence for processing, the site proposed in the application would be authorized by another licence for processing;

• (h) in respect of the issuance or amendment of a licence for processing, the site proposed in the application would be authorized by a licence for processing and a licence for a nursery;

• (i) in respect of the issuance or amendment of a licence for micro-processing, the site proposed in the application would be authorized by a licence for standard cultivation and a licence for micro-processing;

• (j) in respect of the issuance or amendment of a licence for standard processing, the site proposed in the application would be authorized by a licence for micro-cultivation and a licence for standard processing;

• (k) in respect of a licence for processing, the applicant has, in the past 10 years, been convicted of an offence under the Safe Food for Canadians Act or an Act referred to in subsection 374(2) of the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations; and

• (l) in respect of a licence for research that would authorize activities in relation to non-therapeutic research on cannabis, the Minister has reasonable grounds to believe that

  • (i) the use of the cannabis proposed in the application presents a risk of injury to the health of a human participant or other person that cannot reasonably be mitigated, or

  • (ii) the objectives of the non-therapeutic research on cannabis that are set out in the application will not be achieved.