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The amendments to the Criminal Code in this enactment
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(a) permit the operation of casinos on international cruise ships that
are Canadian or in Canadian waters;
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(b) permit dice-games conducted and managed by a province;
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(c) widen the scope of the offence of obtaining the services of a
prostitute under eighteen years old;
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(d) repeal the ``year and a day rule'' for offences involving homicide
and criminal negligence causing death;
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(e) modernize the fraud and theft provisions in respect of valuable
minerals;
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(f) modernize the provisions concerning the offence of making
likenesses of bank-notes;
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(g) ensure that only officials with law enforcement duties can
execute search warrants;
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(h) provide for the authority to remove lawfully-installed electronic
surveillance devices;
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(i) provide sentencing measures dealing with the consideration of
outstanding charges, the offender's ability to pay a fine and
addressing technical matters;
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(j) provide rules governing when conditional sentences run
following the breach of a condition;
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(k) bring deceptive telemarketing offences against the Competition
Act under the forfeiture provisions for the proceeds of crime; and
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(l) provide a number of other technical amendments.
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The amendments to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act in this
enactment deal with aggravating factors in sentencing and the criminal
liability of law enforcement officers engaged in their duties.
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The amendments to the Corrections and Conditional Release Act in
this enactment exclude those convicted of organized-crime offences
from eligibility for accelerated parole review.
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