BPR-i4-93 WED 3:4 SLACK/RCESN/ACOGZ I CHL

Private Member's Bill
Dawn Black, M.P.
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An Act ta amend the Criminal Code (threats and {ntimidation) si.

Her Majesty, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons
of Canada, enacts a3 follows:

1. The Crim!nal Code is arcended by repealing paragraphs 423 (1) (a), (b), (c), and (f) and
section 264.1, and adding thereto, immediately after section 164, the following:

264.1 (1) Every one commits an offence wha, in any manner,. knowingly utters, conveys
or causes any person to téceive a threat

(a)to cause death or serious bodily harm, assault, to any ~
person; _

(b) to cause bodily harm ~

(c) ta burn, destroy or damag® real or personal property; OF

(d) to kdl, poison, injure or take an animal or bird that is the propery of any

person,

Every one commits an offence wha wrongfully and without lawful authority or
purpose, with intent to compel another perscn to abstain from doing anything

the person has 4 lawful right to do, or to do anything tha person has a lawful
night to abstain from doing, or with intent fo alarm, harags, intimidate, or

‘place in fear of bodily harm or death,

(a) uses violence or threats of violence, including sexual assault, to that
person or other persons, or uses threats of injury ta the property of that
person;

b) follows that person from place to place;

te) besets or watches the dwelling house or place where that person resides,

works, carries on business or happens to be; or
(d) commits an act the purpose of which ig to alarm, harass, iattmidate or

frighten that person.

Every one who commita an offence under paragraphs 1 (a) and 2 (a) is guilty
of an indictable offence and liable

(a) for the first offence to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years;

and
(b) for each subsequent offence to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten

years.

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