Bill C-219
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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 Criminal Code (sexual exploitation)
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FIRST READING, February 25, 2020
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Mr. Nater |
SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Criminal Code to increase sentences for offences of sexual exploitation and to add as an aggravating circumstance the fact that the victim is a person with a disability for the purpose of sentencing.
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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-219 |
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An Act to amend the Criminal Code (sexual exploitation) |
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
R.S., c. C-46
Criminal Code
1 Paragraph 153(1.1)(b) of the Criminal Code is replaced by the following:
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(b) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and is liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years less a day and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of Insertion start one year Insertion end .
2 Paragraphs 153.1(1)(a) and (b) of the Act are replaced by the following:
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(a) an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term Insertion start of not more than 14 years and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of one year Insertion end ; or
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(b) an offence punishable on summary conviction Insertion start and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years less a day and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of one year Insertion end .
3 The Act is amended by adding the following after section 286.1:
Aggravating circumstance — person with a disability
Start of inserted block286.11 When a court imposes a sentence for an offence referred to in subsection 286.1(1) or (2), it shall consider as an aggravating circumstance the fact that the victim of the offence is a person with a mental or physical disability.
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Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons
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