Bill C-235
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- Controlled Drugs and Substances Act Controlled Drugs and Substances Act
- Consequential Amendments Consequential Amendments
- Criminal Code Criminal Code
- Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act
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First Session, Forty-third Parliament, 68-69 Elizabeth II, 2019-2020 |
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HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA |
An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts
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FIRST READING, February 26, 2020
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Mr. Erskine-Smith |
SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to repeal a provision that makes it an offence to possess certain substances.
It also makes consequential amendments to other Acts.
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Available on the House of Commons website at the following address:
www.ourcommons.ca
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1st Session, 43rd Parliament, 68-69 Elizabeth II, 2019-2020 |
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HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA |
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BILL C-235 |
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An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts |
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
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1 This Act may be cited as the Ending the Stigma of Substance Use Act.
1996, c. 19
Controlled Drugs and Substances Act
2 Paragraph (a) of the definition designated substance offence in subsection 2(1) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act is replaced by the following:
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(a) an offence under Part I, or
3 Sections 4 and 4.1 of the Act are repealed.
4 Subsection 47(1) of the Act is replaced by the following:
Time limit
47 (1) No summary conviction proceedings in respect of an offence under subsection 32(2) or the regulations or in respect of a contravention of an order made under section 45.1 or 45.2 shall be commenced after the expiry of one year after the time when the subject matter of the proceedings arose.
5 Schedule I to the Act is amended by replacing the references after the heading “SCHEDULE I” with the following:
6 Schedule II to the Act is amended by replacing the references after the heading “SCHEDULE II” with the following:
7 Schedule III to the Act is amended by replacing the references after the heading “SCHEDULE III” with the following:
8 Schedule IV to the Act is amended by replacing the references after the heading “SCHEDULE IV” with the following:
Consequential Amendments
R.S., c. C-46
Criminal Code
9 Paragraph 462.48(1)(a) of the Criminal Code is replaced by the following:
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(a) an offence under Part I of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act;
10 Paragraph 553(c) of the Act is amended by striking out “or” at the end of subparagraph (ix) and by repealing subparagraph (x).
2000, c. 17; 2001, c. 41, s. 48
Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act
11 Subparagraph 11.11(1)(d)(ii) of the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act is replaced by the following:
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(ii) the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act,
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Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons
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