With respect to a person for whom the validity period of a license has expired (excluding a person who continues to hold a license), a person whose license has been revoked pursuant to Article 12-6, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, and a person who is required to give notification pursuant to paragraph (3) of that Article (hereinafter in this Article referred to as a "person whose license has expired, etc."), only in the case where the person whose license has expired, etc. transfers Cannabis that the person owns or manages to a type 1 Cannabis plant harvesting cultivator, a Cannabis plant research cultivator, or the founder of a narcotics research facility (meaning a narcotics research facility prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xxiii) of the Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Act) within 50 days from the date on which any of these grounds arose, Article 24, paragraph (1) and Article 26, paragraph (3) of that Act do not apply to that transfer and receipt, and Article 28, paragraph (1) of that Act does not apply to the possession of that Cannabis and narcotics by the person whose license has expired, etc. during that period.
免許の有効期間が満了した者（引き続き免許を受けている者を除く。）、第十二条の六第一項又は前条第二項の規定による免許の取消しを受けた者及び同条第三項の規定により届け出なければならない者（以下この条において「免許期間満了者等」という。）については、免許期間満了者等がこれらの事由の生じた日から五十日以内に、その所有し、又は管理する大麻を第一種大麻草採取栽培者、大麻草研究栽培者又は麻薬研究施設（麻薬及び向精神薬取締法第二条第一項第二十三号に規定する麻薬研究施設をいう。）の設置者に譲り渡す場合に限り、その譲渡し及び譲受けについては、同法第二十四条第一項及び第二十六条第三項の規定を適用せず、また、免許期間満了者等の当該大麻及び麻薬の所持については、同期間に限り、同法第二十八条第一項の規定を適用しない。
A person whose license has expired, etc. must, within 50 days from the date on which a ground prescribed in the preceding paragraph arose, transfer to a Cannabis plant cultivator, or dispose of, seeds not treated against germination that the person owns or manages.
When a person whose license has expired, etc. has transferred the Cannabis referred to in paragraph (1) pursuant to that paragraph, or has transferred the seeds not treated against germination referred to in the preceding paragraph pursuant to that paragraph, the person must, within 15 days, notify the prefectural governor of the name and quantity of that Cannabis or those seeds not treated against germination, the date of the transfer, and the name or title and address of the transferee.
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Cannabismachine translation
「大麻」
The cannabis plant (大麻草) other than its seeds and mature stalks, and products made from it other than products that no longer have the form of the cannabis plant.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (2)· applies throughout the law
cannabis plant cultivatormachine translation
「大麻草栽培者」
A person licensed to grow cannabis plants under this Act: a type 1 cannabis plant harvesting cultivator, a type 2 cannabis plant harvesting cultivator or a cannabis plant research cultivator.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (3)· applies throughout the law
type 1 cannabis plant harvesting cultivatormachine translation
「第一種大麻草採取栽培者」
A person who, under a license (免許) from the prefectural governor (都道府県知事) under Article 5, paragraph (1), grows cannabis plants to harvest raw materials for products made from them, limited to products of the seeds or mature stalks and others a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) specifies, including products that no longer have the plant's form.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (4)· applies throughout the law
cannabis plant research cultivatormachine translation
「大麻草研究栽培者」
A person who grows cannabis plants in order to research them, under a license (免許) from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働大臣) under Article 13, paragraph (1).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (6)· applies throughout the law
licensemachine translation
「免許」
In Chapter II, the license from the governor of the prefecture where the cultivation site lies that a person needs to become a type 1 cannabis plant harvesting cultivator.
Short name set inArticle 5, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
prefectural governormachine translation
「都道府県知事」
The governor (知事) of the prefecture in which the cultivation site lies.
Short name set inArticle 5, paragraph (1)
seeds not treated against germinationmachine translation
「発芽不能未処理種子」
Seeds of the cannabis plant that have not been treated, by the method Article 18 requires and a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets, so that they cannot germinate.
Short name set inArticle 9, paragraph (1), item (iii)
person whose license has expired, etc.machine translation
「免許期間満了者等」
In Article 12-8, a person whose license (免許) has expired without a new one, a person whose license was revoked under Article 12-6, paragraph (1) or Article 12-7, paragraph (2), and a person, such as an heir, liquidator or bankruptcy trustee, who must notify the authorities under Article 12-7, paragraph (3) that a cultivator has died or been dissolved.
Short name set inArticle 12-8, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article