Amendments related to the National Sex Offender Registry
An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Sex Offender Information Registration Act and the International Transfer of Offenders Act (S.C. 2023, c. 28)

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2024

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• Introduction
• Background
  • 1. National Sex Offender Registry
• Context
  • 1. R. v. Ndhlovu, 2022 SCC 38
• Overview of Reforms
  • 1. National Sex Offender Registry
    • Criminal Code
      • I. Designated offences (section 490.011)
        • New offences
      • II. Registration on the NSOR (section 490.012)
        • Mandatory registration (subsections 490.012(1) and (2))
        • Presumption of registration (subsection 490.012(3))
        • Factors guiding the application of the presumption (subsection 490.012(4))
        • Offences committed abroad and ITOA (subsection 490.02905(2) and section 490.029111)
      • III. Duration of registration obligations (section 490.013)
        • Offences committed abroad and ITOA (sections 490.029051 and 490.029112))
      • IV. Applications for individual relief (April 15, 2011 to coming into force of Bill S-12) (sections 490.04-490.07)
        • Exemption orders (section 490.04)
        • Variation orders
      • V. Termination orders (sections 490.015, 490.016, 490.026, 490.027, 490.02912, 490.02913)
      • VII. Appeals (sections 490.014, 490.02906, 490.029113, 490.06).
      • VIII. Compelling the offender’s appearance
        • Summons (section 490.0132, form 6.3)
        • Warrant to compel compliance (section 490.03121, subsection 703(2), form 6.4)
      • IX. Offences committed abroad – obligations on offenders (section 490.02911)
    • Sex Offender Information Registration Act
      • X. Reporting of travel (paragraphs 6(1)(a) and (b))
      • XI. Operational amendments
        • Notice to provincial police (subparagraph 490.018(1)(d)(iv))
        • Retention of information (subsection 15(1))
        • Disclosure of information (paragraphs 16(2)(b), subsection 16(4))
  • 2. Coming into Force

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