Criminal Code
Sections and provisions with full text and the judgments that cite each one.
Section 278.9 — Publication prohibited
No person shall publish in any document, or broadcast or transmit in any way, any of the following: the contents of an application made under section 278.3; any evidence taken, information given or…
Section 278.91 — Appeal
For the purposes of sections 675 and 676, a determination to make or refuse to make an order pursuant to subsection 278.5(1) or 278.7(1) is deemed to be a question of law.
Section 278.92 — Admissibility — accused in possession of records relating to complainant
Except in accordance with this section, no record relating to a complainant that is in the possession or control of the accused — and which the accused intends to adduce — shall be admitted in…
Section 278.93 — Application for hearing — sections 276 and 278.92
Application may be made to the judge, provincial court judge or justice by or on behalf of the accused for a hearing under section 278.94 to determine whether evidence is admissible under subsection…
Section 278.94 — Hearing — jury and public excluded
The jury and the public shall be excluded from a hearing to determine whether evidence is admissible under subsection 276(2) or 278.92(2). The complainant is not a compellable witness at the hearing…
Section 278.95 — Publication prohibited
A person shall not publish in any document, or broadcast or transmit in any way, any of the following: the contents of an application made under subsection 278.93; any evidence taken, the information…
Section 278.96 — Judge to instruct jury — re use of evidence
If evidence is admitted at trial on the basis of a determination made under subsection 278.94(4), the judge shall instruct the jury as to the uses that the jury may and may not make of that evidence.
Section 278.97 — Appeal
For the purposes of sections 675 and 676, a determination made under subsection 278.94(4) shall be deemed to be a question of law.
Section 278.98 — Reasons
In proceedings in respect of an offence under section 151, 152, 153, 153.1 or 155, subsection 160(2) or (3) or section 170, 171, 172, 173, 271, 272 or 273, the judge shall provide reasons for a…
Section 279 — Kidnapping
Every person commits an offence who kidnaps a person with intent to cause the person to be confined or imprisoned against the person’s will; to cause the person to be unlawfully sent or transported…
Section 279.01 — Trafficking in persons
Every person who recruits, transports, transfers, receives, holds, conceals or harbours a person, or exercises control, direction or influence over the movements of a person, for the purpose of…
Section 279.011 — Trafficking of a person under the age of eighteen years
Every person who recruits, transports, transfers, receives, holds, conceals or harbours a person under the age of eighteen years, or exercises control, direction or influence over the movements of a…
Section 279.02 — Material benefit — trafficking
Every person who receives a financial or other material benefit, knowing that it is obtained by or derived directly or indirectly from the commission of an offence under subsection 279.01(1), is…
Section 279.03 — Withholding or destroying documents — trafficking
Every person who, for the purpose of committing or facilitating an offence under subsection 279.01(1), conceals, removes, withholds or destroys any travel document that belongs to another person or…
Section 279.04 — Exploitation
For the purposes of sections 279.01 to 279.03, a person exploits another person if they cause them to provide, or offer to provide, labour or a service by engaging in conduct that, in all the…
Section 279.1 — Hostage taking
Everyone takes a person hostage who — with intent to induce any person, other than the hostage, or any group of persons or any state or international or intergovernmental organization to commit or…
Section 280 — Abduction of person under age of 16
Every person who, without lawful authority, takes or causes to be taken a person under the age of 16 years out of the possession of and against the will of the parent or guardian of that person or of…
Section 281 — Abduction of person under age of 14
Every person who, not being the parent, guardian or person having the lawful care or charge of a person under the age of 14 years, unlawfully takes, entices away, conceals, detains, receives or…
Section 282 — Abduction in contravention of custody or parenting order
Every one who, being the parent, guardian or person having the lawful care or charge of a child under the age of 14 years, takes, entices away, conceals, detains, receives or harbours that child, in…
Section 283 — Abduction
Everyone who, being the parent, guardian or person having the lawful care or charge of a child under the age of 14 years, takes, entices away, conceals, detains, receives or harbours that child,…
Section 284 — Defence
No one shall be found guilty of an offence under sections 281 to 283 if he establishes that the taking, enticing away, concealing, detaining, receiving or harbouring of any young person was done with…
Section 285 — Defence
No one shall be found guilty of an offence under sections 280 to 283 if the court is satisfied that the taking, enticing away, concealing, detaining, receiving or harbouring of any young person was…
Section 286 — No defence
In proceedings in respect of an offence under sections 280 to 283, it is not a defence to any charge that a young person consented to or suggested any conduct of the accused.
Section 286.1 — Obtaining sexual services for consideration
Everyone who, in any place, obtains for consideration, or communicates with anyone for the purpose of obtaining for consideration, the sexual services of a person is guilty of an indictable offence…
Section 286.2 — Material benefit from sexual services
Every person who receives a financial or other material benefit, knowing that it is obtained by or derived directly or indirectly from the commission of an offence under subsection 286.1(1), is…
Section 286.3 — Procuring
Everyone who procures a person to offer or provide sexual services for consideration or, for the purpose of facilitating an offence under subsection 286.1(1), recruits, holds, conceals or harbours a…
Section 286.4 — Advertising sexual services
Everyone who knowingly advertises an offer to provide sexual services for consideration is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years; or an…
Section 286.5 — Immunity — material benefit and advertising
No person shall be prosecuted for an offence under section 286.2 if the benefit is derived from the provision of their own sexual services; or an offence under section 286.4 in relation to the…
Section 287
[Repealed, 2019, c. 25, s. 111]
Section 288
[Repealed, 2018, c. 29, s. 28]
Section 289
[Repealed, R.S., 1985, c. 27 (1st Supp.), s. 41]
Section 290 — Bigamy
Every one commits bigamy who in Canada, being married, goes through a form of marriage with another person, knowing that another person is married, goes through a form of marriage with that person,…
Section 291 — Punishment
Every person who commits bigamy is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years; or an offence punishable on summary conviction. For the purposes…
Section 292 — Procuring feigned marriage
Every person who procures or knowingly aids in procuring a feigned marriage between themselves and another person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more…
Section 293 — Polygamy
Every person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction who practises or enters…
Section 293.1 — Forced marriage
Every person who celebrates, aids or participates in a marriage rite or ceremony knowing that one of the persons being married is marrying against their will is guilty of an indictable offence and…
Section 293.2 — Marriage under age of 16 years
Every person who celebrates, aids or participates in a marriage rite or ceremony knowing that one of the persons being married is under the age of 16 years is guilty of an indictable offence and…
Section 294 — Pretending to solemnize marriage
Every person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction who solemnizes or pretends…
Section 295 — Marriage contrary to law
Every person who, being lawfully authorized to solemnize marriage, knowingly solemnizes a marriage in contravention of federal law or the laws of the province in which the marriage is solemnized is…
Section 296
[Repealed, 2018, c. 29, s. 30]
Section 297 — Definition of newspaper
In sections 303, 304 and 308, newspaper means any paper, magazine or periodical containing public news, intelligence or reports of events, or any remarks or observations thereon, printed for sale and…
Section 298 — Definition
A defamatory libel is matter published, without lawful justification or excuse, that is likely to injure the reputation of any person by exposing him to hatred, contempt or ridicule, or that is…
Section 299 — Publishing
A person publishes a libel when he exhibits it in public; causes it to be read or seen; or shows or delivers it, or causes it to be shown or delivered, with intent that it should be read or seen by…
Section 300 — Punishment of libel known to be false
Every person who publishes a defamatory libel that they know is false is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years; or an offence punishable on…
Section 301 — Punishment for defamatory libel
Every person who publishes a defamatory libel is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years; or an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Section 302 — Extortion by libel
Every one commits an offence who, with intent to extort money from any person, or to induce a person to confer on or procure for another person an appointment or office of profit or trust, publishes…
Section 303 — Proprietor of newspaper presumed responsible
The proprietor of a newspaper shall be deemed to publish defamatory matter that is inserted and published therein, unless he proves that the defamatory matter was inserted in the newspaper without…
Section 304 — Selling book containing defamatory libel
No person shall be deemed to publish a defamatory libel by reason only that he sells a book, magazine, pamphlet or other thing, other than a newspaper that contains defamatory matter, if, at the time…
Section 305 — Publishing proceedings of courts of justice
No person shall be deemed to publish a defamatory libel by reason only that he publishes defamatory matter in a proceeding held before or under the authority of a court exercising judicial authority;…
Section 306 — Parliamentary papers
No person shall be deemed to publish a defamatory libel by reason only that he publishes to the Senate or House of Commons or to the legislature of a province defamatory matter contained in a…