Criminal Code

Marginal note:When obligation begins

• 490.02904 (1) The obligation under section 490.02901 begins on the day on which the person is served with the notice.

• Marginal note:When obligation ends

  (2) The obligation ends on the day on which an exemption order is made.

• Marginal note:Duration of obligation

  (3) If subsection (2) does not apply, the obligation

  • (a) ends 10 years after the person was sentenced or found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder if the maximum term of imprisonment provided for in Canadian law for the equivalent offence is two or five years;

  • (b) ends 20 years after the person was sentenced or found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder if the maximum term of imprisonment provided for in Canadian law for the equivalent offence is 10 or 14 years;

  • (c) applies for life if the maximum term of imprisonment provided for in Canadian law for the equivalent offence is life; or

  • (d) applies for life if, on April 15, 2011 or before or after that day, the person was convicted of, or found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder for, more than one offence outside Canada that is, in the opinion of the Attorney General of the province or minister of justice of the territory, equivalent to an offence referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition primary offence in subsection 490.011(1) and if more than one of those offences is listed in the notice.