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Quebec Sex Offender Information Registration Regulations (SOR/2005-6)

Regulations are current to 2024-10-30

Quebec Sex Offender Information Registration Regulations

SOR/2005-6

SEX OFFENDER INFORMATION REGISTRATION ACT

Registration 2004-12-24

Quebec Sex Offender Information Registration Regulations

WHEREAS the Sex Offender Information Registration Act, (S.C. 2004, c. 10) provides for the creation of a national sex offender database;

WHEREAS the Act provides that persons who are convicted of offenses of a sexual nature will be required to report to a designated place to have the information concerning them registered in a database available to police services investigating crimes of a sexual nature;

WHEREAS section 18 of the Act provides that the Lieutenant Governor in Council of a province may, for the purposes of the Act, make regulations respecting the means by which sex offenders are required to report and to provide notification, authorizing persons or classes of persons to collect and to register information, and designating places as registration centres and the area of the province served by each registration centre;

WHEREAS it is expedient to make such regulations;

IT IS ORDERED, therefore, on the recommendation of the Minister of Public Security:

THAT the annexed Quebec Sex Offender Information Registration Regulations be made.

December 21, 2004

Lise Thibault
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec

Interpretation

1 In these Regulations, Act means the Sex Offender Information Registration Act.

Report and Notification

  • 2 (1) A sex offender whose main residence is located in Quebec may make any report required under section 4.3 of the Act by telephone, facsimile or electronic mail to the Centre québécois d’enregistrement des délinquants sexuels de la Sûreté du Québec in Montreal.

  • (2) A sex offender whose main residence is located in Quebec may provide any notification required under section 6 of the Act by telephone, facsimile or electronic mail to the Centre québécois d’enregistrement des délinquants sexuels de la Sûreté du Québec or in person.

Persons Authorized to Collect Information

3 The following persons are authorized in Quebec to collect information for the purposes of the Act:

  • (a) a member of the Sûreté du Québec;

  • (b) a member of a municipal police force; and

  • (c) a member of a native police force.

Persons Authorized to Register Information

4 Any member, or other employee, of the Sûreté du Québec who is assigned to the Centre québécois d’enregistrement des délinquants sexuels de la Sûreté du Québec is authorized in Quebec to register information for the purposes of the Act.

Registration Centres

  • 5 (1) A place set out in column 1 of the schedule is designated as a registration centre in Quebec, and its designated area of service is set out in column 2.

  • (2) The Centre québécois d’enregistrement des délinquants sexuels de la Sûreté du Québec in Montreal is designated as a registration centre in Quebec, and its designated area of service is Quebec.

Coming into Force

6 These Regulations come into force on the day on which they are registered.

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