Cannabis Regulations

Marginal note:Ineligibility

• 151 (1) An individual is not eligible to be a senior person in charge, a qualified person in charge or an alternate qualified person in charge if, in the past 10 years,

  • (a) in respect of a designated offence, a controlled substance offence, or any other offence referred to in subsection (2), the individual

    • (i) was convicted as an adult, or

    • (ii) was a young person who received an adult sentence, as those terms are defined in subsection 2(1) of the Youth Criminal Justice Act; or

  • (b) in respect of an offence committed outside Canada that, if committed in Canada, would have constituted a designated offence, a controlled substance offence or any other offence referred to in subsection (2),

    • (i) the individual was convicted as an adult, or

    • (ii) if they committed the offence when they were at least 14 years old but less than 18 years old, the individual received a sentence that was longer than the maximum youth sentence that could have been imposed under the Youth Criminal Justice Act for such an offence.

• Marginal note:Other offences

  (2) The other offences for the purpose of subsection (1) are the following:

  • (a) an offence involving the financing of terrorism referred to in any of sections 83.02 to 83.04 of the Criminal Code;

  • (b) an offence involving fraud referred to in any of sections 380 to 382 of the Criminal Code;

  • (c) the offence of laundering proceeds of crime referred to in section 462.31 of the Criminal Code;

  • (d) an offence involving a criminal organization referred to in any of sections 467.11 to 467.13 of the Criminal Code; and

  • (e) a conspiracy or an attempt to commit, being an accessory after the fact in relation to, or any counselling in relation to, an offence referred to in any of paragraphs (a) to (d).