Bill C-470
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1st Session, 37th Parliament, 49-50-51 Elizabeth II, 2001-2002
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House of Commons of Canada
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BILL C-470 |
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An Act to amend the Corrections and
Conditional Release Act
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20
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1. Subsection 139(1) of the Corrections
and Conditional Release Act is replaced by
the following:
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| Additional
sentences
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139. (1) For the purposes of the Criminal
Code, the Prisons and Reformatories Act and
this Act, where a person who is subject to a
sentence that has not expired receives an
additional sentence as a result of being
convicted of an indictable offence , the person
shall serve the remainder of the original
sentence and at least two-thirds of the
additional sentence before becoming eligible
for conditional release.
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nt of
additional
sentence
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(1.1) For the purposes of subsection (1), the
additional sentence shall commence on the
day that that sentence is imposed.
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2. The Act is amended by adding the
following after section 139:
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| More than one
conviction
while on
conditional
release
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139.1 (1) If a person has been convicted on
more than one occasion of an indictable
offence that was committed while the person
was on conditional release, the person, if
sentenced as a result of a conviction for a
subsequent offence, shall not be eligible for
conditional release in respect of that sentence.
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| Sentence in
community
facility
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(2) The person referred to in subsection (1)
shall serve an additional ninety day sentence
in a community correctional facility following
the expiration of the sentence referred to in
that subsection.
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