Sex Offender Information Registration Act

Marginal note:Retention of information

• 15 (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3) and regulations made under paragraphs 19(3)(b) and (d), information that is registered in the database in accordance with this Act shall be kept in the database indefinitely.

• Marginal note:Permanent removal and destruction of information

  (2) Despite any other Act of Parliament, if a person who is subject to an order is finally acquitted of every offence in connection with which the order was made, or receives a free pardon granted under Her Majesty’s royal prerogative of mercy or section 748 of the Criminal Code for every such offence, all information that is collected under this Act or registered in the database in connection with that order shall be destroyed, or permanently removed from the database, in accordance with regulations made under paragraph 19(3)(d).

• Marginal note:Permanent removal and destruction of information

  (3) Despite any other Act of Parliament, all information that is collected under this Act, or registered in the database, in connection with an obligation under section 490.019 of the Criminal Code shall be destroyed, or permanently removed from the database, in accordance with regulations made under paragraph 19(3)(d) and with any court order made under subsection 490.023(4) or 490.024(2) of that Act, if the person who is subject to the obligation

  • (a) is finally acquitted of every offence to which the obligation relates or receives a free pardon granted under Her Majesty’s royal prerogative of mercy or section 748 of that Act for every such offence; or

  • (b) is granted an exemption order under subsection 490.023(2) of that Act or on an appeal from a decision made under that subsection.