S-40.1 - Act respecting the Québec correctional system

Section 149 Disposition versions

2007-02-05

149. Notwithstanding sections 145 to 148, conditional release may be granted to an offender

(1)  who is terminally ill;

(2)  whose physical or mental health is likely to suffer serious damage if he or she continues to be held in confinement;

(3)  for whom continued confinement would constitute an excessive hardship that was not reasonably foreseeable at the time the offender was sentenced; or

(4)  who is the subject of an order to be surrendered under the Extradition Act (Statutes of Canada, 1999, chapter 18) and to be detained until surrendered.

2002, c. 24, s. 149.