Bill 11 (Legislature 17, Session 3)

L17 S3 5277

Alberta — Bills

1974 Bill 11 Third Session, 17th Legislature, 23 ETizabeth 11 ==:':"'==================~==I=:::t:::t:::l!-"., THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL 11 The Corrections Amendment Act, 1974 THE SOLICITOR GENERAL First Reading Second Reading Third Reading Printed by L. S. WALL, Queen's Printer for the prQvince of Alberta, EDMONTON

Bill 11 BILL 11 1974 THE CORRECTIONS AMENDMENT ACT, 1914 (Assented to , 1974) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. The Corrections Act is hereby arrwnded.

Section 2 is amended by striki'Yig out clauses (a), (

b) and (

c) and by substituting therefor the following clauses: (a) "chief executive officer" means the warden or superintendent of a correctional institution or of a remand 'Or detention centre; (b) "correctional institution" includes a common jail, lock-up or any other place in which persons who are arrested, charged or convicted of an offence are usually kept in custody; (c) "Director" means the Director of Correction Ser vices; (c1) "inmate" means a person s'erving a term of im prisonment or otherwise held in lawful custody;

Section 4, subsection (1) is arne.nded by adding after the word "Correction" the word "Services".

Section 8 is amended by striking out subsection (1).

Section 12 is amended by striking out, subsection (2).

Section 13 is amended by striking out the words "and liable 'On

summary conviction :to a fine of not more than $100 and in default of payment to imprisonment for a term of not more than three m'onths".

Expla natory Notes I. This Bill will amend

chapter 70 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta 1970. 2. These amendments to the

definitions will be mainly to ac commodate the establishment of remand and detention units. 3.

Section 4(1) presently reads: 4.

(1) There shall be appoin1ted, pursuant to The Public Service Act a Director of Correction, probation officers and c.orrection officers and such other persons as are required for the administration of this Act. 4. This amendment will remove the necessity of an order in council to establish or discontinue a correctional institution. 5. The definition of correctional institution will be moved to

section 2 of the Act. 6. The punishment part of the

section will be redundant because of the new

section 29.

r. The following

section is added after

section 28: 29. Any person, other than an inmate serving a term of imprisonment, who contravenes any provision of this Act or the regulations is guilty of an offence punishable on sum mary conviction and liable to a fine of not more than $100 or in default to imprisonment for a term of not more than three months. 8. This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is assented to. 2

'7. Offences. 2 Title: 1974 (17th, 3rd) Bill 11, The Corrections Amendment Act, 1974

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Collection	Alberta — Bills
Citation	L17 S3 5277
Type	bill
Volume / chapter	L17 S3 5277
Language	en
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