Second

Session, 46th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2009

BILL 45

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

VICTIMS OF

CRIME SERVICES ACT

Received and Read the First Time ...................................................................................................

Second Reading .................................................................................................................................

Committee ............................................................................................................................................

Third Reading .....................................................................................................................................

Royal Assent ......................................................................................................................................

HONOURABLE

FELIX COLLINS

Minister of Justice and Attorney General

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Victims of Crime Services Act to require

peace officers to provide information concerning victims to the Victims of

Crime Services Division. What

information and in what form it would be provided would be the subject of

regulations that the Minister of Justice would be authorized to make.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE VICTIMS OF

CRIME SERVICES ACT

Analysis

S.15 Added

Peace officers to provide information

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cV-5

as amended

1. The Victims

of Crime Services Act is amended by adding immediately after

section 14 the

following:

Peace officers to

provide information

(1) A

peace officer shall provide to the Victims of Crime Services Division the

information in his or her possession about a victim that the minister may

require by regulation.

(2) The information referred to in subsection

(1) shall be provided in the form and the detail required by the regulations.

(3) In this

section peace officer means

(

a) a member of the Royal

Newfoundland Constabulary; or

(

b) a member of the Royal

Canadian Mounted Police stationed in the province.

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer