An Act to amend certain Acts and to make certain consequential amendments (firearms) (S.C. 2023, c. 32)

Marginal note:Bill C-5

• 71 (1) Subsections (2) to (6) apply if Bill C-5, introduced in the 1st session of the 44th Parliament and entitled An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (in this section referred to as the “other Act”), receives royal assent.

• (2) On the first day on which both section 4 of the other Act and section 14 of this Act are in force, paragraph 95(2)(a) of the Criminal Code is replaced by the following:

  • (a) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 14 years; or

• (3) On the first day on which both section 5 of the other Act and section 14 of this Act are in force, paragraph 96(2)(a) of the Criminal Code is replaced by the following:

  • (a) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 14 years; or

• (4) On the first day on which both section 6 of the other Act and section 14 of this Act are in force, subsection 99(3) of the Criminal Code is replaced by the following:

  • Marginal note:Punishment — other cases

    (3) In any other case, a person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 14 years.

• (5) On the first day on which both section 7 of the other Act and section 14 of this Act are in force, subsection 100(3) of the Criminal Code is replaced by the following:

  • Marginal note:Punishment — other cases

    (3) In any other case, a person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 14 years.

• (6) On the first day on which both section 8 of the other Act and section 14 of this Act are in force, subsection 103(2.1) of the Criminal Code is replaced by the following:

  • Marginal note:Punishment — other cases

    (2.1) In any other case, a person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 14 years.

Marginal note:2019, c. 9

• 72 (1) In this section, other Act means An Act to amend certain Acts and Regulations in relation to firearms, chapter 9 of the Statutes of Canada, 2019.

• (2) If subsection 3(2) of the other Act comes into force before section 65 of this Act, then that section 65 is deemed never to have come into force and is repealed.

• (3) If subsection 3(2) of the other Act comes into force on the same day as section 65 of this Act, then that section 65 is deemed to have come into force before that subsection 3(2).

• (4) If subsection 4(2) of the other Act comes into force before section 66 of this Act, then that section 66 is deemed never to have come into force and is repealed.

• (5) If subsection 4(2) of the other Act comes into force on the same day as section 66 of this Act, then that section 66 is deemed to have come into force before that subsection 4(2).

Related Provision

Marginal note:Rights of Indigenous peoples

• 72.1 (1) The provisions enacted by this Act are to be construed as upholding the rights of Indigenous peoples recognized and affirmed by section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, and not as abrogating or derogating from them.

• Marginal note:Definition of Indigenous peoples

  (2) In subsection (1), Indigenous peoples has the meaning assigned by the definition aboriginal peoples of Canada in subsection 35(2) of the Constitution Act, 1982.

Coming into Force

Marginal note:Order in council

• 73 (1) Subsections 5(1) and (2) and sections 9.1, 15, 16, 20, 21.2, 26 to 29, 32 to 36, 38, 40, 41 and 45 come into force on a day or days to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.

• Marginal note:30th day after royal assent

  (1.1) Subsections 3(2) and 13(1.1) come into force on the 30th day after the day on which this Act receives royal assent.

• Marginal note:Order in council

  (2) Sections 49 to 51 come into force on a day to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.