ENGLISH
• SUMMARY
SUMMARY
• 1 Short Title
1 Short Title
• 2 Interpretation
2 Interpretation
• 3 National Action for the Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence
3 National Action for the Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence
• 4 Report and Publication
4 Report and Publication

SUMMARY

Short Title

Short title

1 This Act may be cited as Georgina’s Law.

Interpretation

Definitions

2 The following definitions apply in this Act.

intimate partner, with respect to a person, includes their current or former spouse, common-law partner and dating partner. (partenaire intime)

Minister means the Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth. (ministre)

National Action for the Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence

National action

3 (1) The Minister must continue to lead national action to prevent and address intimate partner violence.

Engagements

(2) In leading national action to prevent and address intimate partner violence, the Minister must engage annually with other federal ministers and with provincial ministers responsible for the status of women and regularly with Indigenous partners, victims and survivors, and stakeholders with respect to

• (a) the adequacy of current programs and strategies aimed at preventing intimate partner violence and at protecting and assisting victims of intimate partner violence;

• (b) partnerships in the prevention of intimate partner violence and the protection of victims of intimate partner violence;

• (c) the financial and other costs of action to prevent and address intimate partner violence; and

• (d) any constitutional, legal or jurisdictional implications of action to prevent and address intimate partner violence.

Initiation of engagements

(3) The engagements referred to in subsection (2) must begin within one year after the day on which this Act receives royal assent.

Report and Publication

Report to Parliament

4 (1) Within two years after this Act receives royal assent and every two years after that, the Minister must prepare a report setting out progress on action to prevent and address intimate partner violence and cause a copy of the report to be tabled in each House of Parliament.

Publication of report

(2) The Minister must post the report on the departmental website within 30 days after the day on which the report is tabled in both Houses of Parliament.