Sex Offender Information Registration Act

Marginal note:Registration of information

• 8.1 (1) When the Attorney General of a province or the minister of justice of a territory receives a copy of an affidavit of service and a notice sent in accordance with subsection 490.021(6) of the Criminal Code, a person who registers information for the Attorney General or the minister of justice shall register without delay in the database only the following information relating to the person who was served with the notice:

  • (a) their given name and surname;

  • (b) the number that identifies a record of fingerprints collected from them under the Identification of Criminals Act, if such a record exists;

  • (c) the date on which the notice was served;

  • (d) every offence listed in the notice;

  • (e) when and where the offence or offences were committed;

  • (f) when and where the person was convicted of, or found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder for, the offence or offences;

  • (g) the age and gender of every victim of the offence or offences, and the victim’s relationship to the person;

  • (h) the expected duration of the person’s obligation under section 490.019 of the Criminal Code; and

  • (i) in the case of a person referred to in paragraph 490.02(1)(b) of the Criminal Code, the date, if any, on which the person last reported under the Ontario Act and the duration of their obligation to comply with section 3 of that Act.

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  (2) When the Attorney General of a province or the minister of justice of a territory receives a notice referred to in subsection 490.016(3), 490.017(2), 490.027(3) or 490.029(2) of the Criminal Code, a person who registers information for the Attorney General or the minister of justice shall register without delay in the database the fact that a termination order was made.

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  (3) A person who registers information for the Attorney General of a province or the minister of justice of a territory may register in the database the fact that a person has applied in that jurisdiction for an exemption order under section 490.023 of the Criminal Code.

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  (4) When the Attorney General of a province or the minister of justice of a territory receives a notice referred to in section 490.025 of the Criminal Code, a person who registers information for the Attorney General or the minister of justice shall register without delay in the database the fact that the court refused to make an exemption order under subsection 490.023(2) of that Act or that the appeal court dismissed an appeal from such a decision or quashed an exemption order.

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  (5) A person who registers information for the Attorney General of a province or the minister of justice of a territory may register in the database the date on which the custodial portion of a sex offender’s sentence or detention in custody begins and the date of their release or discharge if

  • (a) the sex offender was prosecuted in that jurisdiction for the offence to which the sentence or detention relates; and

  • (b) the offence was not prosecuted under the National Defence Act.

• Marginal note:Confidentiality and copy of information

  (6) A person who registers information under this section shall

  • (a) ensure that the registration of the information is done in a manner and in circumstances that ensure its confidentiality; and

  • (b) once the information is registered, on request, send the sex offender or the person served with a notice under section 490.021 of the Criminal Code a copy of all of the information relating to them that is registered in the database, by registered mail, free of charge and without delay.