Supplementary Provisions, Article 4Transitional Measures for Cannabis Plant Harvesting Cultivators, etc.
第四条(大麻草採取栽培者等に関する経過措置)
With regard to a Cannabis plant harvesting cultivator prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation as Amended by Article 1 and a Cannabis plant research cultivator prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (5) of that Act, who hold a license on the day preceding the day of enforcement of the provisions listed in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions (hereinafter referred to as the "item (ii) Effective Date"), notwithstanding the provisions of the Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation as amended by the provisions of Article 2 (referred to as the "Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation as Amended by Article 2" in paragraph (2) of the following Article and Article 7 of the Supplementary Provisions) and the Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Act as amended by the provisions of Article 4, the provisions then in force continue to govern during the validity period of that license.
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」
The license from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働大臣) under Article 13, paragraph (1) that a person needs to become a type 2 cannabis plant harvesting cultivator or a cannabis plant research cultivator.
Defined inArticle 17, paragraph (2)
Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation as Amended by Article 1machine translation
「第一条改正後大麻法」
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 84 of 2023.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (2)
item (ii) Effective Datemachine translation
「第二号施行日」
1 March 2025, the date the provisions listed in Article 1, item (ii) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 84 of 2023, among them its Article 2, which amended this Act a second time, came into effect.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)
Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation as Amended by Article 2machine translation
「第二条改正後大麻法」
This Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 84 of 2023, the second stage of that Act's amendments, which came into effect on 1 March 2025.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Supplementary Provisions, Article 5, paragraph (2); and Supplementary Provisions, Article 7