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Bill S-255

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 13, 2023
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (murder of an intimate partner, one's own child or an intimate partner's child)
  • A proposed law in Canada would change the Criminal Code to make the murder of a partner or a child, either one's own or a partner's, automatically considered first degree murder. This means that such murders would be considered the most serious, regardless of whether the act was planned in advance or not. The bill was introduced in the Senate of Canada and can be found on their website.
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First Session, Forty-fourth Parliament,

70-71 Elizabeth II – 1 Charles III, 2021-2022

SENATE OF CANADA

BILL S-255
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (murder of an intimate partner, one’s own child or an intimate partner’s child)
FIRST READING, November 2, 2022

THE HONOURABLE SENATOR BOISVENU
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SUMMARY

The enactment amends the Criminal Code to classify the murder of an intimate partner, one’s own child or an intimate partner’s child as first degree murder.

Available on the Senate of Canada website at the following address:
www.sencanada.ca/en


1st Session, 44th Parliament,

70-71 Elizabeth II – 1 Charles III, 2021-2022

SENATE OF CANADA

BILL S-255

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (murder of an intimate partner, one’s own child or an intimate partner’s child)

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

R.‍S.‍, c. C-46

Criminal Code

1 Section 231 of the Criminal Code is amended by adding the following after subsection (4):

Murder — intimate partner or child

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(4.‍1) Irrespective of whether a murder is planned and deliberate on the part of a person, murder is first degree murder when the victim is the person’s intimate partner, the person’s own child or the child of the person’s intimate partner.
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Published under authority of the Senate of Canada


EXPLANATORY NOTES

Criminal Code
Clause 1: New.