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SUMMARY |
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This enactment amends the Criminal Code to allow the court to
authorize repeat offenders subject to driving prohibition orders to drive,
if they register in a provincial alcohol ignition interlock device program.
The enactment provides that no authorization has effect until a
minimum period of prohibition has been completed of 3, 6 or 12 months
for a first, second or subsequent offence, respectively.
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EXPLANATORY NOTE |
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Clause 1: Subsections 259(1.2) to (1.4) are new.
Subsection 259(1.1) reads as follows:
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(1.1) Notwithstanding paragraph (1)(a), where the lieutenant gover
nor in council of the province in which the prohibition order under
paragraph (1)(a) is to be made has established a program governing the
use of an alcohol ignition interlock device by an offender convicted of
an offence for which the order is to be made, the minimum period of not
less than one year is reduced to a period of not less than three months,
if the offender participates in the program during the remainder of the
one year period.
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