Section 504 — Criminal Code: In what cases justice may receive information

Any one who, on reasonable grounds, believes that a person has committed an indictable offence may lay an information in writing and under oath before a justice, and the justice shall receive the information, where it is alleged that the person has committed, anywhere, an indictable offence that may be tried in the province in which the justice resides, and that the person is or is believed to be, or resides or is believed to reside, within the territorial jurisdiction of the justice; that the person, wherever he may be, has committed an indictable offence within the territorial jurisdiction of the justice; that the person has, anywhere, unlawfully received property that was unlawfully obtained within the territorial jurisdiction of the justice; or that the person has in his possession stolen property within the territorial jurisdiction of the justice.