Cannabis Regulations

Marginal note:Eligibility — designated person

• 311 (1) An individual is eligible to be a designated person only if they are an adult who ordinarily resides in Canada.

• Marginal note:Prior offences

  (2) An individual is not eligible to be a designated person if, within the preceding 10 years, they

  • (a) have been convicted, as an adult, of a designated offence or a controlled substance offence;

  • (b) have been convicted, as an adult, of an offence committed outside Canada that, if committed in Canada, would have constituted an offence referred to in paragraph (a);

  • (c) were a young person who received an adult sentence, as those terms are defined in subsection 2(1) of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, in respect of an offence referred to in paragraph (a); or

  • (d) received a sentence — for an offence they committed outside Canada when they were at least 14 years old but less than 18 years old that, if committed in Canada, would have constituted an offence referred to in paragraph (a) — that was longer than the maximum youth sentence that could have been imposed under the Youth Criminal Justice Act for such an offence.