An Act to amend the Criminal Code (blood alcohol content)
This bill is from the 41st Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in August 2015.
This bill is from the 41st Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in August 2015.
Randy Hoback Conservative
Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)
Third reading (House), as of June 5, 2015
(This bill did not become law.)
This is from the published bill.
This enactment amends section 255 of the Criminal Code to establish the possibility of imposing more severe penalties for offences committed under section 253 in circumstances where the offender has a blood alcohol content that exceeds one hundred and sixty milligrams of alcohol in one hundred millilitres of blood and to raise the minimum penalties that apply to convictions for impaired driving causing bodily harm or death.
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.
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