CANNABIS FOR PRIVATE PURPOSES ACT: INPUT SOUGHT ON DRAFT REGULATIONS

CANNABIS FOR PRIVATE PURPOSES ACT: INPUT SOUGHT ON DRAFT REGULATIONS

• 02 February 2026
• Justice & Constitutional Development
• SA Legal Academy

The Department of Justice & Constitutional Development has called for input by 5 March 2026 on draft regulations under the 2024 Cannabis for Private Purposes Act.

In anticipation of the Act’s commencement, once finalised and in force the proposed new regulations will prescribe:

• the maximum:
  • amount of cannabis one person may possess in a ‘private or public place’
  • number of cannabis plants one person may possess ‘for cultivation in private’, and
  • amount of cannabis one person may transport
• transport-related conditions, restrictions, prohibitions, obligations, requirements and standards (including those associated with passengers in any vehicle transporting cannabis)
• procedures to be followed when applying for the expungement of a cannabis-related criminal record
• the contents of a criminal record expungement certificate, and
• related procedures to be followed by the South African Police Service.

Please click the links below for more information:

• draft regulations
• Government Gazette notice
• Act

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