Criminal Code

Marginal note:Sexual assault with a weapon, threats to a third party or causing bodily harm

• 272 (1) Every person commits an offence who, in committing a sexual assault,

  • (a) carries, uses or threatens to use a weapon or an imitation of a weapon;

  • (b) threatens to cause bodily harm to a person other than the complainant;

  • (c) causes bodily harm to the complainant; or

  • (d) is a party to the offence with any other person.

• Marginal note:Punishment

  (2) Every person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable

  • (a) where a firearm is used in the commission of the offence, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of four years; and

  • (b) in any other case, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.