Sacred Spaces, Safe Places Act, 2025

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The Bill enacts the Sacred Spaces, Safe Places Act, 2025 . Section 1 provides that the purpose of the Act is to protect access to religious institutions. Section 2 defines a religious institution as being a building or structure, or part of a building or structure, that is primarily used for religious worship, including a church, mosque, synagogue or temple, or a cemetery. Section 3 prohibits certain activities in an access zone for a religious institution, which include advising a person to refrain from accessing the institution, persistently requesting that a person refrain from accessing the institution or certain actions for the purpose of dissuading a person from accessing the institution. Section 4 establishes access zones for religious institutions and provides for the extent of the zones. Sections 5 to 9 provide for enforcement. Section 5 provides for offences, while section 6 provides that a person may not be convicted of an offence for contravening a prohibition in an access zone unless the person knew or, at any time before the contravention, was given notice of, the location of the relevant access zone. Section 7 provides for a right to damages for losses resulting from contraventions. Section 8 gives the Superior Court of Justice the power to grant an injunction, on an application by a person, to restrain a person from contravening a prohibition under section 3. Section 9 provides for powers of arrest without a warrant.

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