Manage your cannabis cultivation, processing or sale for medical purposes licence: Cease activities and revoke your licence
Ceasing all activities and revoking your cannabis licence in the Cannabis Tracking and Licensing System (CTLS).
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Cease activities
Type of change: Cessation of activities
Notify 30 days before, ceasing activities after acknowledgement
You must tell Health Canada if you plan to cease all authorized activities on your licence, including possession of cannabis at your site. Notify us at least 30 calendar days before stopping activities. We'll review and acknowledge your notice.
Important: You must continue to meet all regulatory requirements even after ceasing cannabis activities and even when there's no longer any cannabis at the site. This includes:
- paying any applicable fees
- submitting monthly inventory reports
- maintaining the physical security of the site
- keeping security cleared personnel in key positions
- keeping any document or information until the end of the retention period
If you no longer wish to meet these requirements, you must have your licence revoked.
Required information
Cessation of activities page
Complete all required fields.
- Date on which activities are expected to cease
- Reason for cessation
- Quantity of cannabis remaining on site and how it will be disposed of
- If remaining cannabis will be sold, specify:
- name and address of who it will be sold to
- quantity to be sold
- If remaining cannabis will be destroyed, specify:
- date and location of the destruction
- quantity to be destroyed
- If remaining cannabis will be sold, specify:
- Record keeping location for the licence following revocation
- Contact information for the licence following revocation
Supporting documents page
You don't need to submit any information in this section.
Important: If there are further changes after activities have stopped, you must contact Health Canada. Email licensing-cannabis-licences@hc-sc.gc.ca. Use the subject line "Licence revocation/cessation for LIC-#". Examples of such changes include:
- a change to the contact person
- a change to the address where records, reports and documents are stored
Restarting activities
If you want to restart activities, you can revert your licence back to active in the CTLS. To activate your licence follow these steps:
- Click on "Licences" (under Licensing) in the left-side menu.
- Click the "Resume activities" button (white triangle on green background) in the "Actions" column next to the licence.
Revoke all your licences
Type of change: Revocation
Submit 30 days before, requires approval from Health Canada
This type of change is used to request revocation of all cultivation, processing and sale for medical purposes licences at a single site.
Important: If you wish to remove a licence from your site, but wish to keep others, you need to submit a request to remove a licence class. For example, you want to remove your micro-processing licence, but still continue with activities under your micro-cultivation licence
Required information
Revocation page
Complete all required fields.
- Date on which activities are expected to cease
- Reason for revocation
- Quantity of cannabis remaining on site and how it will be disposed of
- If remaining cannabis will be sold, specify:
- name and address of who it will be sold to
- quantity to be sold
- If remaining cannabis will be destroyed, specify:
- date and location of the destruction
- quantity to be destroyed
- If remaining cannabis will be sold, specify:
- Record keeping location for the licence following revocation
- Contact information for the licence following revocation
Supporting documents page
You don't need to submit any information in this section.
After you submit
After you submit the request, Health Canada will send you a notice. You will then have a representation period during which you can contact us to stop the licence revocation process if necessary.
Once the representation period has passed, or if you respond asking us to proceed, we'll send you a statement that your licence or licence class has been revoked.
Your licence will remain valid until Health Canada confirms that it's been revoked. Until then, you must continue to meet all requirements under the Regulations.
Important: After your licence is revoked, you'll need to submit a Statement of cannabis revenue for that fiscal year (April 1st to March 31st). You'll also need to pay the annual regulatory fee. If your licence has been active for even 1 day during the fiscal year, you still need to submit a statement and pay your annual regulatory fee.
Notices to local authorities
Send notices to local authorities within 30 days of receiving Health Canada's confirmation that your licence was revoked.
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