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Safe Streets and Communities Act (S.C. 2012, c. 1)

Assented to 2012-03-13

189. Paragraph 110(2)(b) of the Act is replaced by the following:

  • (b) in a case where the information relates to a young person who has received a youth sentence for a violent offence and the youth justice court has ordered a lifting of the publication ban under subsection 75(2); and

190. Section 115 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (1):

  • Marginal note:Extrajudicial measures

    (1.1) The police force shall keep a record of any extrajudicial measures that they use to deal with young persons.

191. Paragraph 119(1)(o) of the French version of the Act is replaced by the following:

  • o) toute personne, pour vérifier l’existence d’un casier judiciaire dans le cas où la vérification est exigée par le gouvernement du Canada ou d’une province ou par une municipalité en matière de recrutement de personnel ou de bénévoles ou de fourniture de services;

192. Paragraphs 120(3)(a) and (b) of the Act are replaced by the following:

  • (a) if the offence is an indictable offence, other than an offence referred to in paragraph (b), the period starting at the end of the applicable period set out in paragraphs 119(2)(h) to (j) and ending five years later; and

  • (b) if the offence is a serious violent offence for which the Attorney General has given notice under subsection 64(2) (intention to seek adult sentence), the period starting at the end of the applicable period set out in paragraphs 119(2)(h) to (j) and continuing indefinitely.

193. Section 160 of the Act is repealed.

194. Section 162 of the Act is replaced by the following:

Marginal note:Commencement of proceedings

162. For the purposes of sections 158 and 159, proceedings are commenced by the laying of an information or indictment.

Transitional Provision

Marginal note:Offences committed before this section in force

195. Any person who, before the coming into force of this section, while he or she was a young person, committed an offence in respect of which no proceedings were commenced before that coming into force shall be dealt with under the Youth Criminal Justice Act as amended by this Part as if the offence occurred after that coming into force, except that

  • (a) the definition “violent offence” in subsection 2(1) of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, as enacted by subsection 167(3), does not apply in respect of the offence;

  • (b) paragraph 3(1)(a) of that Act, as enacted by subsection 168(1), does not apply in respect of the offence;

  • (c) paragraph 38(2)(f) of that Act, as enacted by section 172, does not apply in respect of the offence;

  • (d) paragraph 39(1)(c) of that Act, as enacted by section 173, does not apply in respect of the offence; and

  • (e) section 75 of that Act, as enacted by section 185, does not apply in respect of the offence.