SUMMARY

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.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Clause 1: Subsections 259(1.2) to (1.4) are new. Subsection 259(1.1) reads as follows:

(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.