An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the National Defence Act (criminal organization recruitment)

This bill is from the 41st Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in August 2015.

Sponsor

Parm Gill  Conservative

Introduced as a private member’s bill.

Status

This bill has received Royal Assent and is now law.

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Criminal Code to make it an offence to recruit, solicit, encourage, coerce or invite a person to join a criminal organization. It establishes a penalty for that offence and a more severe penalty for the recruitment of persons who are under 18 years of age. This enactment also makes a related amendment to the National Defence Act.

Similar bills

C-394 (41st Parliament, 1st session) An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the National Defence Act (criminal organization recruitment)

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-394s:

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C-394 (2007) An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (sponsorship of relative)