Bill C-250

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	1st Session, 37th Parliament, 49-50 Elizabeth II,
	House of Commons of Canada
	BILL C-250
	An Act to amend the Criminal Code (theft of a motor vehicle)
R.S., 1985, c. C-46	Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
1994, c. 44, s. 20	*1. Paragraph 334(a) of the Criminal Code* is replaced by the following:**
	(a) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, where the property stolen is a testamentary instrument or what is stolen is not a motor vehicle but has a value exceeding five thousand dollars; or
	2. The Act is amended by adding the following after section 334:
Theft of a motor vehicle of a certain value	334.1 (1) Every one who commits theft of a motor vehicle where the value of that vehicle exceeds five thousand dollars is guilty of an indictable offence and liable
	(a) in the case of a first offence, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years; and
	(b) in the case of a subsequent offence, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of four years.
Definition of ``subsequent offence''	(2) In subsection (1), ``subsequent offence'' means a subsequent offence within the meaning of subsections (3) and (4).
Interpreta- tion	(3) Where a person is convicted of an offence under subsection (1) and at the time the offence was committed the person had been previously convicted of an offence under that subsection, the offence is a subsequent offence for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b).
Interpreta- tion	(4) Where a person is convicted of an offence under subsection (1) and is then convicted of another offence under that subsection, that other offence shall, for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), be deemed to be a subsequent offence where the offence was committed before the earlier conviction.
For greater certainty	(5) For greater certainty, for the purposes of subsection (4), a conviction for another offence under subsection (1) includes a conviction for another offence under subsection (1) arising out of the same event or series of events.