C-533
First Session, Forty-first Parliament,
60-61-62 Elizabeth II, 2011-2012-2013
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-533
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (protecting public transportation workers)
first reading, June 12, 2013
Mr. Goodale
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SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Criminal Code to require courts to take into account for sentencing purposes, as an aggravating circumstance, the fact that the victim was, at the time of the commission of the offence, a person employed in a public transportation service and carrying out his or her duties or a person acting in aid of such a person.
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1st Session, 41st Parliament,
60-61-62 Elizabeth II, 2011-2012-2013
house of commons of canada
BILL C-533
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (protecting public transportation workers)
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
SHORT TITLE
Short title 
1. This Act may be cited as the Protecting Canada’s Public Transportation Workers Act.
R.S., c. C-46
CRIMINAL CODE
2. Paragraph 718.2(a) of the Criminal Code is amended by adding the following after subparagraph (iii.1):
(iii.2) evidence that the victim was, at the time of the commission of the offence, a person employed in or assigned to a public transportation service who was engaged in the performance of his or her duties, or a person acting in aid of a person employed in or assigned to a public transportation service,
COMING INTO FORCE
Coming into force 
3. This Act comes into force 30 days after the day on which it receives royal assent.
Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons