Criminal Code

Marginal note:Date order begins

• 490.013 (1) An order made under section 490.012 begins on the day on which it is made.

• Marginal note:Duration of order

  (2) An order made under subsection 490.012(1) or (2)

  • (a) ends 10 years after it was made if the offence in connection with which it was made was prosecuted summarily or if the maximum term of imprisonment for the offence is two or five years;

  • (b) ends 20 years after it was made if the maximum term of imprisonment for the offence is 10 or 14 years; and

  • (c) applies for life if the maximum term of imprisonment for the offence is life.

• Marginal note:Duration of order

  (2.1) An order made under subsection 490.012(1) applies for life if the person is convicted of, or found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder for, more than one offence referred to in paragraph (a), (c), (c.1), (d) or (e) of the definition designated offence in subsection 490.011(1).

• Marginal note:Duration of order

  (3) An order made under subsection 490.012(1) or (2) applies for life if the person is, or was at any time, subject to an obligation under section 490.019 or 490.02901, under section 227.06 of the National Defence Act or under section 36.1 of the International Transfer of Offenders Act.

• Marginal note:Duration of order

  (4) An order made under subsection 490.012(1) or (2) applies for life if the person is, or was at any time, subject to an order made previously under section 490.012 of this Act or section 227.01 of the National Defence Act.

• Marginal note:Duration of order

  (5) An order made under subsection 490.012(3) applies for life.