LCJC - Standing Committee

Legal and Constitutional Affairs

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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Legal and Constitutional Affairs

Issue 8 - Third Report of the Committee

THURSDAY, December 16, 1999

The Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs has the honour to present its

THIRD REPORT

Your Committee, to which was referred Bill S-10, An Act to amend the National Defence Act, the DNA Identification Act and the Criminal Code, has, in obedience to the Order of Reference of Thursday, November 18, 1999, examined the said Bill and now reports the same with the following amendments:

Page 9, Clause 1: add after line 19 the following:

"(3) A peace officer, or any person acting under a peace officer's direction, who is authorized to take samples of bodily substances from a person by an order under section 196.14 or 196.15 or an authorization under section 196.24 may take fingerprints from the person for the purpose of the DNA Identification Act."

2. Clause 9, page 18:

(a) Replace line 26 with the following:

"19.(1) The portion of subsection 487.06(1) of"; and

(b) Add after line 38 the following:

"(2) Section 487.06 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (2):

(3) A peace officer, or any person acting under a peace officer's direction, who is authorized to take samples of bodily substances from a person by an order under section 487.051 or 487.052 or an authorization under section 487.055 or 487.091 may take fingerprints from the person for the purpose of the DNA Identification Act."

Respectfully submitted,

LORNA MILNE

Chair