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Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46)

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Act current to 2023-05-17 and last amended on 2023-01-16. Previous Versions

AMENDMENTS NOT IN FORCE

  • — 2015, c. 16, s. 3

    • 3 The Act is amended by adding the following after section 279.04:

      • Sentences to be served consecutively

        279.05 A sentence imposed on a person for an offence under sections 279.01 to 279.03 shall be served consecutively to any other punishment imposed on the person for an offence arising out of the same event or series of events and to any other sentence to which the person is subject at the time the sentence is imposed on the person for an offence under any of those sections.

  • — 2015, c. 23, s. 30

    • 2010, c. 17, s. 21(2)

      30 Subsection 490.031(3) of the Criminal Code is replaced by the following:

      • Proof of certain facts by certificate

        (3) In proceedings under subsection (1), a certificate of a person referred to in paragraph 16(2)(b) of the Sex Offender Information Registration Act stating that the sex offender failed to report under section 4, 4.1, 4.2 or 4.3 — or provide information under section 5 or notify a person under subsection 6(1) or (1.01) — of that Act is evidence of the statements contained in it without proof of the signature or official character of the person appearing to have signed it.

  • — 2015, c. 23, s. 31

    • 2007, c. 5, s. 29

      31 The portion of section 490.0311 of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

      • Offence

        490.0311 Every person who knowingly provides false or misleading information under subsection 5(1) or 6(1) or (1.01) of the Sex Offender Information Registration Act is guilty of an offence and liable

  • — 2018, c. 16, s. 190

    • Bill C-28

      190 If Bill C-28, introduced in the 1st session of the 42nd Parliament and entitled An Act to amend the Criminal Code (victim surcharge), receives royal assent, then, on the first day on which both subsection 2(1) of that Act and section 222 of this Act are in force, subsection 737(1) of the Criminal Code is replaced by the following:

      • Victim surcharge
        • 737 (1) Subject to subsection (1.1), an offender who is convicted, or discharged under section 730, of an offence under this Act, the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act or the Cannabis Act shall pay a victim surcharge for each offence, in addition to any other punishment imposed on the offender.

  • — 2018, c. 21, ss. 51(1), (2)

    • Bill C-39
      • 51 (1) Subsections (2) and (3) apply if Bill C-39, introduced in the 1st session of the 42nd Parliament and entitled An Act to amend the Criminal Code (unconstitutional provisions) and to make consequential amendments to other Acts (in this section referred to as the other Act), receives royal assent.

      • (2) If subsections 7(1) and (3) of this Act come into force before subsections 10(3) and (4) of the other Act, then those subsections 10(3) and (4) are deemed never to have come into force and are repealed.

  • — 2018, c. 29, s. 79

    • Bill C-39
      • 79 (1) Subsections (2) and (3) apply if Bill C-39, introduced in the 1st session of the 42nd Parliament and entitled An Act to amend the Criminal Code (unconstitutional provisions) and to make consequential amendments to other Acts (in this section referred to as the other Act), receives royal assent.

      • (2) If section 66 of this Act comes into force before section 20 of the other Act, then that section 20 is repealed.

  • — 2018, c. 29, s. 80

    • Bill C-337
      • 80 (1) Subsection (2) applies if Bill C-337, introduced in the 1st session of the 42nd Parliament and entitled the Judicial Accountability through Sexual Assault Law Training Act (in this section referred to as the other Act), receives royal assent.

      • (2) On the first day on which both section 25 of this Act and section 5 of the other Act are in force, section 278.92 of the Criminal Code, as enacted by section 5 of the other Act, is renumbered as section 278.98 and is repositioned accordingly.

  • — 2019, c. 9, s. 16

    • 2015, c. 27, s. 18

      16 The definition non-restricted firearm in subsection 84(1) of the Criminal Code is replaced by the following:

      non-restricted firearm

      non-restricted firearm means a firearm that is neither a prohibited firearm nor a restricted firearm; (arme à feu sans restriction)

  • — 2019, c. 9, s. 18

    • 2015, c. 27, s. 34

      18 Subsections 117.15(3) and (4) of the Act are repealed.

  • — 2021, c. 2, s. 1(2.1)

      • 1 (2.1) Subsection 241.2(2.1) of the Act is repealed.

  • — 2023, c. 7, s. 1

      • 1 (1) Subsection 515(4.2) of the Criminal Code is amended by striking out “or” at the end of paragraph (a.1) and by adding the following after that paragraph:

        • (a.2) that the accused wear an electronic monitoring device, if the Attorney General makes the request; or

      • (2) Paragraph 515(4.3)(c) of the Act is replaced by the following:

        • (c) an offence in the commission of which violence against a person was used, threatened or attempted, including against the accused’s intimate partner; and

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