Fairness for Victims of Violent Offenders Act
An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (parole review and victim impact statement)
This bill is from the 40th Parliament, 3rd session, which ended in March 2011.
This bill is from the 40th Parliament, 3rd session, which ended in March 2011.
David Sweet Conservative
Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)
Second reading (House), as of March 23, 2011
(This bill did not become law.)
This is from the published bill.
This enactment amends the Corrections and Conditional Release Act in order to increase the period within which the National Parole Board must provide a further review of parole and statutory release in the case of offenders serving a sentence for an offence involving violence. This enactment also amends the Act to permit the victim of an offence to present a victim impact statement at a parole review hearing.
All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.
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