What Convictions Qualify for Expungement?

Under the Schedule to the Expungement Act the following convictions qualify for an expungement:

• Gross indecency (or attempt to commit gross indecency);
• Buggery (or attempt to commit buggery);
• Anal intercourse (or attempt to commit anal intercourse);
• Bawdy-house (i.e., keeping, being found in, or permitting a place to be used as);
• Transporting individuals to a bawdy-house;
• Indecent show, which took place in a bawdy house (including exhibiting a disgusting object);
• Indecent acts, which took place in a bawdy house;
• Indecent exhibition, which took place in a bawdy house (i.e., openly exposing or exhibiting);
• Immoral, indecent or obscene performance, which took place in a bawdy house (in a theatre);
• Nudity, which took place in a bawdy house; and
• Procuring the miscarriage (abortion) of a woman or female person (or attempt to procuring the miscarriage (abortion) of a woman or female person);
• Procuring one’s own miscarriage (abortion) (or attempt to procuring one’s own miscarriage (abortion));
• Means or method for causing a miscarriage (abortion);
• Supplying or procuring a substance or an instrument to procure a miscarriage (abortion); and,
• Any offence under the National Defence Act or any previous version of that Act for an act or omission that constitutes an offence listed in the Schedule to the Expungement Act.

The complete, detailed list of offences can also be found in the updated Schedule to the Expungement Act.