An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Sex Offender Information Registration Act

Bill S-266 was a Senate Private Member's Bill amending the Criminal Code (R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46) and the Sex Offender Information Registration Act (S.C. 2004, c. 10, SOIRA) following the Supreme Court of Canada's ruling in R. v. Ndhlovu (2022 SCC 38) which struck down mandatory lifetime sex-offender registration as unconstitutional under Charter section 7. The bill provides a judicial-discretion framework for sex-offender registration with binding criteria (offence type, repeat-offender status, public-safety risk assessment), preserves mandatory registration only for high-risk offenders, and creates new judicial-oversight steps. Did not pass third reading; federal government's response bill addressed the Ndhlovu ruling separately.