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CONTACT SEXUEL [3 records]

Record 1 2024-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Offences and crimes
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Social Problems
CONT

As a result of Bill C-2, which was proclaimed on February 28, 2008, the age of consent was raised from 14 to 16 for the following Criminal Code offences: sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, bestiality and exposure to person under 14.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Problèmes sociaux
OBS

contact sexuel : désignation normalisée par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

OBS

contact sexuel : désignation habituellement utilisée au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • contacts sexuels

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-11-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Social Problems
CONT

Invitation to sexual touching. Every person who for a sexual purpose invites, counsels or incites a child under 14 to touch directly or indirectly with a part of the body or an object the body of any person, including the child's own body and the body of the person encouraging the touching.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Problèmes sociaux
CONT

Incitation à des contacts sexuels. Toute personne qui à des fins d'ordre sexuel, invite, engage ou incite un enfant de moins de 14 ans à la toucher, à se toucher ou à toucher un tiers, directement ou indirectement, avec une partie du corps ou avec un objet.

OBS

Dans le Code criminel, le terme consacré est «contacts sexuels».

Key term(s)
  • contact sexuel
  • toucher

Spanish

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Record 3 1987-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Epidemiology
  • Human Diseases
OBS

Responsibility for informing sexual contacts may be placed on the individual, on the personal physician, or on the public health network. [Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection Contact Tracing Recommendations]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Épidémiologie
  • Maladies humaines
OBS

Rapport hebdomadaire des maladies au Canada.

Spanish

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