BILL NO. 85
(as passed)
2nd Session, 61st General Assembly
Nova Scotia
59 Elizabeth II, 2010
Police Act
(amended)
CHAPTER 69 OF THE ACTS OF 2010
The Honourable Ross Landry
Minister of Justice
First Reading: November 5, 2010 (LINK TO BILL AS INTRODUCED)
Second Reading: November 16, 2010
Third Reading: November 25, 2010
Royal Assent: December 10, 2010
An Act to Amend Chapter 31
of the Acts of 2004,
the Police Act
Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:
1 Chapter 31 of the Acts of 2004, the Police Act, is amended by adding immediately after Section 42 the following Section:
(a) collect the prescribed information respecting any person who is a victim as defined by the Victims' Rights and Services Act; and
(b) provide that information to a victim services program offered by the Provincial Police, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the municipal police department or the other police department, as the case may be, or, where no such program is offered, to the Director of Victim Services under that Act, or a person designated by the Director.
(2) Where the Director of Victim Services requests, the information may be provided to both the victim services program and the Director.
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