National Security Act, 2017 (S.C. 2019, c. 13)

Marginal note:Duty to undertake review

• 168 (1) During the fourth year after this section comes into force, a comprehensive review of the provisions and operation of this Act must be undertaken by the committee of the Senate, of the House of Commons or of both Houses of Parliament, that is designated or established for that purpose.

• Marginal note:Subjects of review

  (1.1) The comprehensive review referred to in subsection (1) must include an assessment of the effect of this Act on the operations of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Communications Security Establishment that relate to national security, information sharing, and the interaction of those organizations with the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency, the Intelligence Commissioner and the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians.

• Marginal note:Report

  (2) The committee must, within one year after the review is undertaken — or within any further period that the Senate, the House of Commons or both Houses of Parliament, as the case may be, authorizes — submit a report on the review to the appropriate House or, in the case of a committee of both Houses, to each House, that includes a statement of any changes that the committee recommends.

• Marginal note:Bill C-22

  (3) Subsections (4) and (5) apply if Bill C-22, introduced in the 1st session of the 42nd Parliament and entitled the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians Act (in this section referred to as the “other Act”), receives royal assent.

• Marginal note:Reviews by same committees

  (4) If section 34 of the other Act comes into force during the period that begins on the day on which this section comes into force and ends immediately before the first anniversary of that day, then

  • (a) the review required by subsection (1) is, despite that subsection (1), to be undertaken five years after the day on which section 34 of the other Act comes into force, and

  • (b) the review required by subsection (1) and the review required by section 34 of the other Act are to be undertaken by the same committee or committees, as the case may be.

• Marginal note:Reviews by same committees

  (5) If section 34 of the other Act has come into force during the year immediately preceding the day on which this section comes into force, then

  • (a) the review required by section 34 of the other Act is, despite that section, to be undertaken during the sixth year after the day on which subsection (1) comes into force; and

  • (b) the review required by subsection (1) and the review required by section 34 of the other Act are to be undertaken by the same committee or committees, as the case may be.