First

Session, 48th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2016

BILL 36

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

VICTIMS OF CRIME SERVICES ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE

ANDREW PARSONS

Minister of Justice and Public Safety 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 increase

the victim fine surcharge from 15% to 30%.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE VICTIMS OF CRIME

SERVICES ACT

Analysis

S.11.1 Amdt.

Victim fine surcharge

Commencement

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 c.V-5

as amended

1. Subsection 11.1(1) of the Victims of Crime Services Act is repealed and the following

substituted:

Victim fine surcharge

11.1

(1) Where

a person is convicted of an offence under

an Act of the province and a fine is

imposed as a penalty for that conviction, that person shall, in addition to the

fine, pay a victim fine surcharge that is 30% of the fine imposed on that person.

Commencement

2. This Act comes into force on September 1, 2016.

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