Bill C-56 · 41th Parliament · Stephen Harper
Statutory Release Reform Act
An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and to make a consequential amendment to the International Transfer of Offenders Act
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- IntroducedMarch 27, 2015
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- Stephen HarperPrime Minister
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On 27 March 2015, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness introduced Bill C-56, An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and to make a consequential amendment to the International Transfer of Offenders Act (Statutory Release Reform Act), in the House of Commons and it was given first reading. Bill C-56 amends the Corrections and Conditional Release Act to • establish that a person who receives a particular sentence for an offence set out in Schedule I of the Act is, for the purposes of determining his or her statutory release date, a person-at-risk; • establish new rules to determine the statutory release date of an offender who, after he or she becomes a person-at-risk, receives a sentence of two years or more — or two or more sentences that amount to two years or more — for committing an offence, or offences, set out in Schedule I of the Act, and ensure that the offender’s statutory release date cannot be earlier than six months before the end of their sentence; and • require that the Correctional Service of Canada provide the police with information that is relevant to an offender’s risk of reoffending if the offender’s statutory release date is d…
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