AI-assisted research summary: These regulations define key terms for warrant compliance, list prescribed police services, set what a stop payment notice must include, allow a benefit administrator to keep a government benefit going during review in some cases, and state when the regulations come into force.
1 WARRANT COMPLIANCE SR 103/2023 The Warrant Compliance Regulations being Saskatchewan Regulations 103/2023 (effective November 1, 2023). NOTE: This consolidation is not official. Amendments have been incorporated for convenience of reference and the original statutes and regulations should be consulted for all purposes of interpretation and application of the law. In order to preserve the integrity of the original statutes and regulations, errors that may have appeared are reproduced in this consolidation. 2 SR 103/2023 WARRANT COMPLIANCE Table of Contents 1 Title 2 Definitions and interpretation 3 Police services authorized to receive location information 4 Requirements for stop payment notice 5 Circumstances in which benefits may continue 6 Coming into force 3 WARRANT COMPLIANCE SR 103/2023 SASKATCHEWAN REGULATIONS 103/2023 The Warrant Compliance Act Title 1 These regulations may be cited as The Warrant Compliance Regulations. Definitions and interpretation 2(1) In these regulations, “Act” means The Warrant Compliance Act. (2) For the purposes of the Act and these regulations: “government benefit” includes: (a) a benefit or assistance pursuant to all or any of the following: (i) The Saskatchewan Assured Income for Disability Regulations, 2012; (ii) The Saskatchewan Income Support Regulations; and (b) the Saskatchewan Housing Benefit pursuant to an agreement made between Saskatchewan and Canada in accordance with the National Housing Strategy; “warrant for arrest” means: (a) an order issued in accordance with the Criminal Code authorizing a warrant for arrest; (b) an order issued in accordance with the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Canada) authorizing a warrant for arrest and detention; or (c) a warrant authorizing apprehension in accordance with the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (Canada). (3) For the purposes of sections 3 and 8 of the Act and these regulations, a benefit administrator is any person authorized by the Minister of Social Services to administer a government benefit. (4) Subject to subsection (5), an offender who is the subject of an outstanding warrant for arrest meets the definition of “prolific violent offender” in section 2 of the Act if that offender has: (a) been convicted as an adult for 3 or more violent offences; (b) has been convicted as an adult for 2 violent offences, and has been found responsible for committing violence while incarcerated; (c) served a term of imprisonment in a federal penitentiary and been convicted as an adult for at least 1 violent offence; or (d) been convicted for a violent offence and sentenced to a term of 5 or more years of imprisonment. (5) An individual who has not been subject to a court order for a violent offence within the 5 years before the warrant for arrest was issued is not a prolific violent offender. 10 Nov 2023 SR 103/2023 s2. 4 SR 103/2023 WARRANT COMPLIANCE Police services authorized to receive location information 3 The following agencies and organizations are prescribed as police services for the purposes of clause (c) of the definition of “police service” in section 2 of the Act: (a) the Correctional Service of Canada continued pursuant to the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (Canada); (b) the Canada Border Services Agency established pursuant to the Canada Border Services Agency Act. 10 Nov 2023 SR 103/2023 s3. Requirements for stop payment notice 4 For the purposes of section 3 of the Act, a stop payment notice must contain the following information: (a) date of issuance; (b) legal name of the prolific violent offender with respect to whom the stop payment notice is issued; (c) any known aliases of the prolific violent offender mentioned in clause (b); (d) date of birth of the prolific violent offender mentioned in clause (b). 10 Nov 2023 SR 103/2023 s4. Circumstances in which benefits may continue 5 For the purposes of subsection 3(4) of the Act, the benefit administrator may permit the government benefit to continue while conducting a review of the recipient’s household composition, including the potential impacts on the children and other dependents of a denial, discontinuance, suspension or reduction of a government benefit otherwise payable to a recipient with respect to whom a stop payment notice has been issued. 10 Nov 2023 SR 103/2023 s5. Coming into force 6(1) Subject to subsection (2), these regulations come into force on the day on which section 1 of The Warrant Compliance Act comes into force. (2) If these regulations are filed with the Registrar of Regulations after the day on which section 1 of The Warrant Compliance Act comes into force, these regulations come into force on the day on which they are filed with the Registrar of Regulations. 10 Nov 2023 SR 103/2023 s6. REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN Printed by the authority of THE KING’S PRINTER Copyright©2023