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Fit and Proper Person requirements

Establishing the integrity of a person who is granted a licence, or who has the ability to substantially influence the conduct of activities under a licence, is fundamental to the medicinal cannabis scheme.

The fit and proper person requirements take into account convictions, imposition of civil penalties, revocations of drug regulation licences and the financial situation of individuals, among other things. The requirements are designed to enable the exclusion of criminal elements, including organised crime, who may otherwise be tempted to use a cannabis licence as cover for illicit activities.

Within the Act, the fit and proper person requirements are applied both to natural persons (i.e. individuals), and/or to bodies corporate depending on differences in business structures and the effect these structures have on the ability of ODC to determine whether the applicant is a fit and proper person to hold a cannabis licence.

Note that the fit and proper persons test also extends to looking at your non-business related connections and your relatives.