Обговорення:Кримінальний кодекс Канади

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++ The first Canadian criminal code was enacted in 1892. The legislation was based on an English bill, drafted in the U.K. in 1878 by James Stephen . The bill died on the order paper following second reading in the House of Commons. By the time the Canadian code was incorporated into the Revised Statutes of Canada 1927, it had grown to 1152 sections. In 1949, a commission was established to revise the code. See below for a chronological history of the revision, from the creation of the revision commission to the draft legislation and eventual enactment of the new & + When Sir John Thompson piloted Canada's first Criminal Code through Parliament ninety years ago, he presented a-bill containing 983 sections, two schedules and an appendix. By 1906 the Code had grown to 1152 sections and the 1955 consolidated version pared that back to a comparatively trim 753 sections. Today's Code contains 774 sections. ---- These· bare statistics are misleading, in that the 1955 ·revision to the Code did · not •drop• 400 crimes fran the. statute books, it merely reorganized, consolidated and simplified