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Version of section 743.5 from 2003-04-01 to 2008-05-28:


Marginal note:Transfer of jurisdiction when person already sentenced under Youth Criminal Justice Act

  •  (1) If a young person or an adult is or has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment for an offence while subject to a disposition made under paragraph 20(1)(k) or (k.1) of the Young Offenders Act, chapter Y-1 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, or a youth sentence imposed under paragraph 42(2)(n), (o), (q) or (r) of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, the disposition or youth sentence shall be dealt with, for all purposes under this Act or any other Act of Parliament, as if it had been a sentence imposed under this Act.

  • Marginal note:Transfer of jurisdiction when youth sentence imposed under Youth Criminal Justice Act

    (2) If a disposition is made under paragraph 20(1)(k) or (k.1) of the Young Offenders Act, chapter Y-1 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, with respect to a person or a youth sentence is imposed on a person under paragraph 42(2)(n), (o), (q) or (r) of the Youth Criminal Justice Act while the young person or adult is under sentence of imprisonment imposed under an Act of Parliament other than the Youth Criminal Justice Act, the disposition or youth sentence shall be dealt with, for all purposes under this Act or any other Act of Parliament, as if it had been a sentence imposed under this Act.

  • Marginal note:Sentences deemed to constitute one sentence — section 743.1

    (3) For greater certainty, the dispositions and sentences referred to in subsections (1) and (2) are, for the purpose of section 139 of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, deemed to constitute one sentence of imprisonment.

  • 1995, c. 22, ss. 6, 19, 20
  • 2002, c. 1, s. 184

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