C-5.3 - Cannabis Regulation Act

Section 23 Disposition versions

2018-08-07

23. Only the Société québécoise du cannabis, a person it authorizes in accordance with subparagraph 4 of the first paragraph of section 23.2 of the Act respecting the Société des alcools du Québec (chapter S-13), a cannabis producer or any other person determined by government regulation may transport, including deliver, and store cannabis for commercial purposes.

The Government may, by regulation, prescribe the standards and conditions applicable to the transportation and storage of cannabis. It may also determine the provisions of such a regulation whose violation constitutes an offence and prescribe, for each offence, the fines to which an offender is liable, which may not exceed $100,000.

Anyone who contravenes the first paragraph commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000 to $500,000.

The amounts of the fines set out in the second and third paragraphs are doubled for a subsequent offence.

2018, c. 19, s. 19.

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In force: 2018-08-07

23. Only the Société québécoise du cannabis, a person it authorizes in accordance with subparagraph 4 of the first paragraph of section 23.2 of the Act respecting the Société des alcools du Québec (chapter S-13), a cannabis producer or any other person determined by government regulation may transport, including deliver, and store cannabis for commercial purposes.

The Government may, by regulation, prescribe the standards and conditions applicable to the transportation and storage of cannabis. It may also determine the provisions of such a regulation whose violation constitutes an offence and prescribe, for each offence, the fines to which an offender is liable, which may not exceed $100,000.

Anyone who contravenes the first paragraph commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000 to $500,000.

The amounts of the fines set out in the second and third paragraphs are doubled for a subsequent offence.

2018, c. 19, s. 19.