EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Bill enacts the Making Sexual Assault Evidence Kits Available Act, 2022, which requires the Minister of Health to direct every public hospital to have at least 10 sexual assault evidence kits available in the hospital at all times.

Bill 59 2022

An Act to require the Minister of Health to direct public hospitals to have a specified number of sexual assault evidence kits available

His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

Minister’s directive

1 (1)  The Minister of Health shall direct every public hospital to have at least 10 sexual assault evidence kits available in the hospital at all times. 

Definition

(2)  In this section,

“public hospital” means a hospital within the meaning of the Public Hospitals Act.

Commencement

2 This Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.

Short title

3 The short title of this Act is the Making Sexual Assault Evidence Kits Available Act, 2022.