S-212An Act to amend the Criminal Records Act, to make consequential amendments to other Acts and to repeal a regulation

What it does

• Replaces record suspension with record expiry under the Criminal Records Act, and updates the Board’s powers, notices, reviews and disclosure rules to match.
• Sets record expiry after the sentence ends, plus a 5 year wait for most indictable and some service offences, a 2 year wait for summary offences, and no extra wait for offences committed as a child.
• Requires the Board to check the RCMP records system, notify people when an expiry does not happen automatically, and let them apply if expiry would support rehabilitation and would not bring the administration of justice into disrepute.
• Lets people reapply after one year if their application is refused, and lets the Board revoke or end an expiry if the person lied, hid important facts, or later turns out to have been ineligible.
• Repeals Schedule 3, which listed certain cannabis offences, repeals the Pardon Services Fees Order, and updates other federal laws to use record expiry instead of record suspension.