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Bill C-328

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1st Session, 37th Parliament,
49-50 Elizabeth II, 2001

House of Commons of Canada

BILL C-328

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (theft over $100,000)

      Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. Paragraph 334(a) of the Criminal Code is replaced by the following:

    (a) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment

      (i) for a term not exceeding fourteen years, where the value of what is stolen exceeds one hundred thousand dollars, or

      (ii) for a term not exceeding ten years, where the property stolen is a testamentary instrument or the value of what is stolen exceeds five thousand dollars but does not exceed one hundred thousand dollars ; or

2. Section 357 of the Act is replaced by the following:

Bringing into Canada property obtained by crime

357. Every one who brings into or has in Canada anything that he has obtained outside Canada by an act that, if it had been committed in Canada, would have been the offence of theft or an offence under section 342 or 354, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable

    (a) in the case of the offence of theft, to a term of imprisonment not exceeding fourteen years; or

    (b) in the case of an offence under section 342 or 354, to a term of imprisonment not exceeding ten years.