Order Amending Schedules 3 and 4 to the Cannabis Act: SOR/2019-207

Canada Gazette, Part II, Volume 153, Number 13

Registration

SOR/2019-207 June 13, 2019

CANNABIS ACT

P.C. 2019-781 June 13, 2019

Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction, pursuant to subsections 151(2) and (3) of the Cannabis Act footnote a, makes the annexed Order Amending Schedules 3 and 4 to the Cannabis Act.

Order Amending Schedules 3 and 4 to the Cannabis Act

Amendments

1 Items 5 and 6 of Schedule 3 to the Cannabis Act footnote 1 are deleted.

2 Schedule 3 to the Act is amended by adding the following after item 4:

Item

Column 1

Class of Cannabis

Column 2

Quantity that is equivalent to 1 g of dried cannabis

5

cannabis concentrates

0.25 g

3 Item 2 of Schedule 4 to the Act is deleted.

4 Items 6 and 7 of Schedule 4 to the Act are deleted.

5 Schedule 4 to the Act is amended by adding the following after item 5:

Item

Class of Cannabis

6

edible cannabis

7

cannabis extracts

8

cannabis topicals

Coming into Force

6 (1) Subject to subsection (2), this Order comes into force on the day on which section 2 of the Regulations Amending the Cannabis Regulations (New Classes of Cannabis) comes into force, but if it is registered after that day, this Order comes into force on the day on which it is registered.

(2) Section 3 comes into force on the first anniversary of the day on which section 1 comes into force.

N.B. The Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement for this Order appears following SOR/2019-206, Regulations Amending the Cannabis Regulations (New Classes of Cannabis).