An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Department of Justice Act
Short title: Jail Not Bail Act
Sponsor:
Arpan Khanna, Member of Parliament (Oxford)
Proposed changes
This enactment amends the Criminal Code in order to (a) replace the principle of restraint in section 493.1 of the Act with the principle of protection of the public; (b) add the protection of the public as a consideration in decisions on the release of an accused; (c) add several violent indictable offences to the list of reverse-onus offences in subsection 515(6) of the Act for the determination of judicial interim release; (d) create a list of major offences, composed of violent reverse-onus offences; (e) prevent those charged with a major offence from being released after arrest by a peace officer…
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