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, before or after the coming into force of this paragraph, the person was 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) or referred to in paragraph (a) or (c) of the definition designated offence in section 227 of the National Defence Act and if more than one of those offences is listed in the notice.