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Bill C-38

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SUMMARY
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (exploitation and trafficking in persons)
EXPLANATORY NOTES

First Session, Forty-second Parliament,

64-65-66 Elizabeth II, 2015-2016-2017

HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA

BILL C-38
An Act to amend An Act to amend the Criminal Code (exploitation and trafficking in persons)

FIRST READING, February 9, 2017

MINISTER OF JUSTICE

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SUMMARY

This enactment amends An Act to amend the Criminal Code (exploitation and trafficking in persons) so that certain sections of that Act can come into force on different days.

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1st Session, 42nd Parliament,

64-65-66 Elizabeth II, 2015-2016-2017

HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA

BILL C-38

An Act to amend An Act to amend the Criminal Code (exploitation and trafficking in persons)

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

2015, c. 16

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (exploitation and trafficking in persons)

1 Section 5 of An Act to amend the Criminal Code (exploitation and trafficking in persons) is replaced by the following:

Sections 1, 2 and 4

5 (1) Sections 1, 2 and 4 come into force on the day on which a Bill entitled An Act to amend An Act to amend the Criminal Code (exploitation and trafficking in persons), introduced in the 1st session of the 42nd Parliament, receives royal assent.

Order in council

(2) Section 3 comes into force on a day to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.

Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons

EXPLANATORY NOTES

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (exploitation and trafficking in persons)

Clause 1: Existing text of section 5:

5 This Act comes into force on a day to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.