AI-assisted research summary: These regulations define key terms, authorize certain police and RCMP-related persons to collect or register information for the Act in Alberta, and state when the regulations start to apply.
Alberta Sex Offender Information Registration Regulations The Lieutenant Governor in Council of Alberta, pursuant to subsection 18(1) of the Sex Offender Information Registration Act, hereby makes the annexed Alberta Sex Offender Information Registration Regulations. October 19, 2004 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Lois Hole The following definitions apply in these Regulations. aboriginal police service means a first nations police service established in accordance with subsection 5(1) of the Alberta Police Act. (service de police autochtone) Act means the Sex Offender Information Registration Act. (Loi) Alberta Police Act means the Police Act, Revised Statutes of Alberta 2000, c. P-17, as amended from time to time. (loi albertaine sur la police) municipal police service means a police service established under section 27 of the Alberta Police Act. (service de police municipal) peace officer means a person appointed as a peace officer under the Peace Officer Act or any other enactment of Alberta and to whom all or part of the Peace Officer Act or any of its regulations apply. (agent de la paix) Peace Officer Act means the Peace Officer Act, S.A. 2006, c. P-3.5, as amended from time to time. (loi albertaine sur les agents de la paix) RCMP means the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. (GRC) regional police service means a police service established under section 24 of the Alberta Police Act. (service de police régional) special constable[Repealed, SOR/2012-52, s. 1] The following persons are authorized in the Province of Alberta to collect information for the purposes of the Act: a member of the RCMP or a peace officer appointed to, or employed by, the RCMP; and a police officer or peace officer appointed to, or employed by, a regional police service, a municipal police service, or an aboriginal police service. [Repealed, SOR/2012-52, s. 2] Persons who are registrars at the Sex Offender Information Registration Centre Alberta, administered by RCMP “K” Division, are authorized in the Province of Alberta to register information for the purposes of the Act. The following places are designated as registration centres in the Province of Alberta: each RCMP detachment; the headquarters of each regional police service or municipal police service, other than that of the municipal police service of the City of Calgary; the administration office of the Calgary police service; and the headquarters of each aboriginal police service. The following are designated as the areas served by the registration centres: for an RCMP detachment, the area served by the detachment; for the headquarters of regional police services or municipal police services, the municipalities served by those police services; for the administration office of the Calgary police service, the City of Calgary; and for the headquarters of an aboriginal police service, the area served by that police service. These Regulations come into force on the day on which the Sex Offender Information Registration Act, chapter 10 of the Statutes of Canada, 2004, comes into force. [Note: Regulations in force December 15, 2004, see SI/2004-157.]