Cannabis Regulations

Marginal note:Disclosure to licensing authority

• 299 (1) A holder of a licence for sale must disclose, in writing and as soon as feasible, factual information about a health care practitioner — in relation to cannabis — that they have obtained under the Act or the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to

  • (a) the provincial professional licensing authority for a province in which the health care practitioner is, or was, entitled to practise if the licensing authority submits to the holder a written request that sets out the health care practitioner’s name and address, a description of the information being requested and a statement that the information is required for the purpose of assisting an investigation by the authority; or

  • (b) the provincial professional licensing authority for a province in which the health care practitioner is not entitled to practise if the licensing authority submits to the holder

    • (i) a written request that sets out the health care practitioner’s name and address and a description of the information being requested, and

    • (ii) a document that shows that

      • (A) the health care practitioner has applied to the licensing authority to practise in that province, or

      • (B) the licensing authority has reasonable grounds to believe that the health care practitioner is practising in that province without being authorized to do so.

• Marginal note:Factual information

  (2) The factual information that may be requested includes information — including patient information — contained in, or in respect of, any medical document that was signed by the health care practitioner.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (3) Despite subsection (2), the factual information that may be requested does not include information relating to an individual who

  • (a) is or was registered as a client of the holder on the basis of a registration with the Minister under Division 2 of this Part; or

  • (b) in the case where the holder was a licensed producer under the former Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations, was registered as a client of the licensed producer under section 133 of those Regulations on the basis of a registration with the Minister under Part 2 of those Regulations.

• Marginal note:Secure transmission

  (4) The holder must ensure that the information that they disclose under this section is securely transmitted in an electronic format that is accessible to the provincial professional licensing authority.

• Marginal note:Definition of health care practitioner

  (5) In this section, health care practitioner means an individual who is, or was, a medical practitioner or nurse practitioner.