Section 490.021 — Criminal Code: Period for and method of service

The notice shall be personally served within one year after the day on which the Sex Offender Information Registration Act comes into force. If a person referred to in paragraph 490.02(1)(a) is unlawfully at large or is in breach of any terms of their sentence or discharge, or of any conditions set under this Act or under Part III of the National Defence Act , that relate to residence, the notice may be served by registered mail at their last known address. If a person referred to in paragraph 490.02(1)(b) is not in compliance with section 3 of the Ontario Act on the day on which the Sex Offender Information Registration Act comes into force, the notice may be served by registered mail at their last known address. If a person referred to in paragraph 490.02(1)(b) is in compliance with section 3 and subsection 7(2) of the Ontario Act on the day on which the Sex Offender Information Registration Act comes into force but fails to comply with subsection 3(1) or 7(2) of the Ontario Act within one year after that day, the notice shall be served within one year after the day on which they failed to comply and may be served by registered mail at their last known address. An affidavit of the person who served the notice, sworn before a commissioner or other person authorized to take affidavits, is evidence of the service and the notice if it sets out that the person who served the notice has charge of the appropriate records and has knowledge of the facts in the particular case; the notice was personally served on, or mailed to, the person to whom it was directed on a named day; and the person who served the notice identifies a true copy of the notice as an exhibit attached to the affidavit. The person who served the notice shall, without delay, send a copy of the affidavit and the notice to the Attorney General of the province, or the minister of justice of the territory, in which the person was served.