Criminal Code
Sections and provisions with full text and the judgments that cite each one.
Section 322 — Theft
Every one commits theft who fraudulently and without colour of right takes, or fraudulently and without colour of right converts to his use or to the use of another person, anything, whether animate…
Section 323 — Oysters
Where oysters and oyster brood are in oyster beds, layings or fisheries that are the property of any person and are sufficiently marked out or known as the property of that person, that person shall…
Section 324 — Theft by bailee of things under seizure
Every one who is a bailee of anything that is under lawful seizure by a peace officer or public officer in the execution of the duties of his office, and who is obliged by law or agreement to produce…
Section 325 — Agent pledging goods, when not theft
A factor or an agent does not commit theft by pledging or giving a lien on goods or documents of title to goods that are entrusted to him for the purpose of sale or for any other purpose, if the…
Section 326 — Theft of telecommunication service
Every one commits theft who fraudulently, maliciously, or without colour of right, abstracts, consumes or uses electricity or gas or causes it to be wasted or diverted; or uses any telecommunication…
Section 327 — Possession of device to obtain use of telecommunication facility or service
Every person who, without lawful excuse, makes, possesses, sells, offers for sale, imports, obtains for use, distributes or makes available a device that is designed or adapted primarily to use a…
Section 328 — Theft by or from person having special property or interest
A person may be convicted of theft notwithstanding that anything that is alleged to have been stolen was stolen by the owner of it from a person who has a special property or interest in it; by a…
Section 329
[Repealed, 2000, c. 12, s. 94]
Section 330 — Theft by person required to account
Every one commits theft who, having received anything from any person on terms that require him to account for or pay it or the proceeds of it or a part of the proceeds to that person or another…
Section 331 — Theft by person holding power of attorney
Every one commits theft who, being entrusted, whether solely or jointly with another person, with a power of attorney for the sale, mortgage, pledge or other disposition of real or personal property,…
Section 332 — Misappropriation of money held under direction
Every one commits theft who, having received, either solely or jointly with another person, money or valuable security or a power of attorney for the sale of real or personal property, with a…
Section 333 — Taking ore for scientific purpose
No person commits theft by reason only that he takes, for the purpose of exploration or scientific investigation, a specimen of ore or mineral from land that is not enclosed and is not occupied or…
Section 333.1 — Motor vehicle theft
Everyone who commits theft is, if the property stolen is a motor vehicle, guilty of an offence and liable on proceedings by way of indictment, to imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years,…
Section 333.2 — Possession of device for purpose of committing theft
Everyone commits an offence who possesses an electronic device suitable for committing theft of a motor vehicle for the purpose of committing a motor vehicle theft offence. Everyone commits an…
Section 334 — Punishment for theft
Except where otherwise provided by law, every one who commits theft if the property stolen is a testamentary instrument or the value of what is stolen is more than $5,000, is guilty of an indictable…
Section 335 — Taking motor vehicle or vessel or found therein without consent
Subject to subsection (1.1), every one who, without the consent of the owner, takes a motor vehicle or vessel with intent to drive, use, navigate or operate it or cause it to be driven, used,…
Section 336 — Criminal breach of trust
Every one who, being a trustee of anything for the use or benefit, whether in whole or in part, of another person, or for a public or charitable purpose, converts, with intent to defraud and in…
Section 337
[Repealed, 2018, c. 29, s. 33]
Section 338 — Fraudulently taking cattle or defacing brand
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, without the consent…
Section 339 — Taking possession, etc., of drift timber
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, without the consent…
Section 340 — Destroying documents of title
Every person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction who, for a fraudulent…
Section 341 — Fraudulent concealment
Every person who, for a fraudulent purpose, takes, obtains, removes or conceals anything is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years; or an…
Section 342 — Theft, forgery, etc., of credit card
Every person who steals a credit card, forges or falsifies a credit card, possesses, uses or traffics in a credit card or a forged or falsified credit card, knowing that it was obtained, made or…
Section 342.01 — Instruments for copying credit card data or forging or falsifying credit cards
Every person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years, or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction, who, without lawful…
Section 342.1 — Unauthorized use of computer
Everyone is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years, or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction who, fraudulently and without…
Section 342.2 — Possession of device to obtain unauthorized use of computer system or to commit mischief
Every person who, without lawful excuse, makes, possesses, sells, offers for sale, imports, obtains for use, distributes or makes available a device that is designed or adapted primarily to commit an…
Section 343 — Robbery
Every one commits robbery who steals, and for the purpose of extorting whatever is stolen or to prevent or overcome resistance to the stealing, uses violence or threats of violence to a person or…
Section 344 — Robbery
Every person who commits robbery is guilty of an indictable offence and liable if a restricted firearm or prohibited firearm is used in the commission of the offence or if any firearm is used in the…
Section 345 — Stopping mail with intent
Every one who stops a mail conveyance with intent to rob or search it is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for life.
Section 346 — Extortion
Every one commits extortion who, without reasonable justification or excuse and with intent to obtain anything, by threats, accusations, menaces or violence induces or attempts to induce any person,…
Section 347 — Criminal interest rate
Despite any other Act of Parliament, every person who enters or offers to enter into an agreement or arrangement to receive interest at a criminal rate, who advertises an offer to enter into an…
Section 347.01 — Non-application — agreements or arrangements
Section 347 does not apply in respect of agreements or arrangements provided for by regulation or in respect of offers, or advertisements of offers, provided for by regulation, to enter into an…
Section 347.1 — Definitions
The following definitions apply in subsection (2). interest has the same meaning as in subsection 347(2). ( intérêts ) payday loan means an advancement of money in exchange for a post-dated cheque, a…
Section 348 — Breaking and entering with intent, committing offence or breaking out
Every one who breaks and enters a place with intent to commit an indictable offence therein, breaks and enters a place and commits an indictable offence therein, or breaks out of a place after…
Section 348.1 — Aggravating circumstance — home invasion
If a person is convicted of an offence under section 98 or 98.1, subsection 279(2) or section 343, 346 or 348 in relation to a dwelling-house, the court imposing the sentence on the person shall…
Section 349 — Being unlawfully in dwelling-house
Every person who, without lawful excuse, enters or is in a dwelling-house with intent to commit an indictable offence in it is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of…
Section 350 — Entrance
For the purposes of sections 348 and 349, a person enters as soon as any part of his body or any part of an instrument that he uses is within any thing that is being entered; and a person shall be…
Section 351 — Possession of break-in instrument
Every person who, without lawful excuse, has in their possession any instrument suitable for the purpose of breaking into any place, motor vehicle, vault or safe knowing that the instrument has been…
Section 352 — Possession of instruments for breaking into coin-operated or currency exchange devices
Every person who, without lawful excuse, has in their possession any instrument suitable for the purpose of breaking into a coin-operated device or a currency exchange device, knowing that the…
Section 353 — Selling, etc., automobile master key
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 sells, offers for sale…
Section 353.1 — Tampering with vehicle identification number
Every person commits an offence who, without lawful excuse, wholly or partially alters, removes or obliterates a vehicle identification number on a motor vehicle. For the purpose of this section,…
Section 354 — Possession of property obtained by crime
Every one commits an offence who has in his possession any property or thing or any proceeds of any property or thing knowing that all or part of the property or thing or of the proceeds was obtained…
Section 355 — Punishment
Every one who commits an offence under section 354 if the subject matter of the offence is a testamentary instrument or the value of the subject matter of the offence is more than $5,000, is guilty…
Section 355.1 — Definition of traffic
For the purposes of sections 355.2 and 355.4, traffic means to sell, give, transfer, transport, export from Canada, import into Canada, send, deliver or deal with in any other way, or to offer to do…
Section 355.2 — Trafficking in property obtained by crime
Everyone commits an offence who traffics in any property or thing or any proceeds of any property or thing knowing that all or part of the property, thing or proceeds was obtained by or derived…
Section 355.3 — In rem prohibition
The importation into Canada or exportation from Canada of any property or thing or any proceeds of any property or thing is prohibited if all or part of the property, thing or proceeds was obtained…
Section 355.4 — Possession of property obtained by crime — trafficking
Everyone commits an offence who has in their possession, for the purpose of trafficking, any property or thing or any proceeds of any property or thing knowing that all or part of the property, thing…
Section 355.5 — Punishment
Everyone who commits an offence under section 355.2 or 355.4 is, if the value of the subject matter of the offence is more than $5,000, guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for…
Section 356 — Theft from mail
Everyone commits an offence who steals anything sent by post, after it is deposited at a post office and before it is delivered, or after it is delivered but before it is in the possession of the…
Section 357 — Bringing into Canada property obtained by crime
Every person who brings into or has in Canada anything that they have obtained outside Canada by an act that, if it had been committed in Canada, would have been the offence of theft or an offence…