Bill C-425
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This enactment amends the Criminal Code to provide a mechanism
for the public disclosure of the name of certain criminals when they
have served their sentence of imprisonment.
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Under this enactment, a person who believes on reasonable grounds
that another person who has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment
for an offence of a sexual nature will commit the same offence or
another offence of a sexual nature, may, before the date fixed for the
expiration of that person's sentence, with the consent of the Attorney
General, lay an information before a provincial court judge.
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The provincial court judge who receives the information shall cause
the parties to appear before him. The provincial court judge before
whom the parties appear, if satisfied by the evidence adduced that the
informant has reasonable grounds for the fear and that the interests of
society, in particular the protection of the public, prevail over the right
to privacy of the defendant, may order that the defendant enter into a
recognizance and comply with the conditions fixed by the provincial
court judge respecting the public disclosure of the defendant's name
and the offence of which the defendant was convicted.
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