BILL NO. 85

(as introduced)

2nd Session, 61st General Assembly
Nova Scotia
59 Elizabeth II, 2010

Government Bill

Police Act
(amended)

The Honourable Ross Landry
Minister of Justice

First Reading: November 5, 2010

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading: November 16, 2010

Third Reading: November 25, 2010 (LINK TO BILL AS PASSED)

This Bill amends the Police Act to require all police officers with information respecting a victim of crime to provide information to a victim services program offered by the police officer's department or to the Director of Victim Services in the Department of Justice.

1 Chapter 31 of the Acts of 2004, the Police Act, is amended by adding immediately after Section 42 the following Section:

42A (1) All members of the Provincial Police, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a municipal police department or other police department providing policing services in the Province shall

(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.

(apa) prescribing the information to be collected pursuant to Section 42A respecting victims;