Strengthening Reporting Requirements for Sex Offenders Act (Noah’s Law)
An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Sex Offender Information Registration Act
This bill is from the 44th Parliament, 1st session, which ended in January 2025.
This bill is from the 44th Parliament, 1st session, which ended in January 2025.
Second reading (Senate), as of June 6, 2023
(This bill did not become law.)
This is from the published bill.
This enactment amends the Criminal Code to allow a court to order that a sex offender who is likely to reoffend must complywith the reporting requirements under the Sex Offender InformationRegistration Act for 30 years. It also provides that a sexoffender must complete a sexual behaviour treatment programbefore applying for termination of the order.
The enactment also amends the Sex Offender Information RegistrationAct to increase the frequency with which a sex offendermust report to a registration centre and to require an offender toreport to a registration centre before moving to a new address.Finally, the enactment makes it an offence to fail to report to aregistration centre as required.
All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.