Bill S-255
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First Session, Forty-fourth Parliament, 70-71 Elizabeth II – 1 Charles III, 2021-2022 |
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SENATE OF CANADA |
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (murder of an intimate partner, one’s own child or an intimate partner’s child)
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FIRST READING, November 2, 2022
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THE HONOURABLE SENATOR BOISVENU |
SUMMARY
The enactment amends the Criminal Code to classify the murder of an intimate partner, one’s own child or an intimate partner’s child as first degree murder.
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Available on the Senate of Canada website at the following address: www.sencanada.ca/en |
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1st Session, 44th Parliament, 70-71 Elizabeth II – 1 Charles III, 2021-2022 |
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SENATE OF CANADA |
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BILL S-255 |
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An Act to amend the Criminal Code (murder of an intimate partner, one’s own child or an intimate partner’s child) |
His 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 Section 231 of the Criminal Code is amended by adding the following after subsection (4):
Murder — intimate partner or child
Start of inserted block(4.1) Irrespective of whether a murder is planned and deliberate on the part of a person, murder is first degree murder when the victim is the person’s intimate partner, the person’s own child or the child of the person’s intimate partner.
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Published under authority of the Senate of Canada
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