Criminal Code
Sections and provisions with full text and the judgments that cite each one.
Section 462.47 — No civil or criminal liability incurred by informants
For greater certainty but subject to section 241 of the Income Tax Act , a person is justified in disclosing to a peace officer or the Attorney General any facts on the basis of which that person…
Section 462.48 — Definition of designated substance offence
In this section, designated substance offence means an offence under Part I of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act , except subsection 4(1) of that Act; an offence under Division 1 of Part 1 of…
Section 462.49 — Specific forfeiture provisions unaffected by this Part
This Part does not affect the operation of any other provision of this or any other Act of Parliament respecting the forfeiture of property. The property of an offender may be used to satisfy the…
Section 462.5 — Regulations
The Attorney General may make regulations governing the manner of disposing of or otherwise dealing with, in accordance with the law, property forfeited under this Part.
Section 463 — Attempts, accessories
Except where otherwise expressly provided by law, the following provisions apply in respect of persons who attempt to commit or are accessories after the fact to the commission of offences: every one…
Section 464 — Counselling offence that is not committed
Except where otherwise expressly provided by law, the following provisions apply in respect of persons who counsel other persons to commit offences, namely, every one who counsels another person to…
Section 465 — Conspiracy
Except where otherwise expressly provided by law, the following provisions apply in respect of conspiracy: every one who conspires with any one to commit murder or to cause another person to be…
Section 466 — Conspiracy in restraint of trade
A conspiracy in restraint of trade is an agreement between two or more persons to do or to procure to be done any unlawful act in restraint of trade. The purposes of a trade union are not, by reason…
Section 467 — Saving
No person shall be convicted of the offence of conspiracy by reason only that he refuses to work with a workman or for an employer; or does any act or causes any act to be done for the purpose of a…
Section 467.1 — Definitions
The following definitions apply in this Act. criminal organization means a group, however organized, that is composed of three or more persons in or outside Canada; and has as one of its main…
Section 467.11 — Participation in activities of criminal organization
Every person who, for the purpose of enhancing the ability of a criminal organization to facilitate or commit an indictable offence under this or any other Act of Parliament, knowingly, by act or…
Section 467.111 — Recruitment of members by a criminal organization
Every person who, for the purpose of enhancing the ability of a criminal organization to facilitate or commit an indictable offence under this Act or any other Act of Parliament, recruits, solicits,…
Section 467.12 — Commission of offence for criminal organization
Every person who commits an indictable offence under this or any other Act of Parliament for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with, a criminal organization is guilty of an…
Section 467.13 — Instructing commission of offence for criminal organization
Every person who is one of the persons who constitute a criminal organization and who knowingly instructs, directly or indirectly, any person to commit an offence under this or any other Act of…
Section 467.14 — Sentences to be served consecutively
A sentence imposed on a person for an offence under section 467.11, 467.111, 467.12 or 467.13 shall be served consecutively to any other punishment imposed on the person for an offence arising out of…
Section 467.2
[Repealed, 2019, c. 25, s. 185]
Section 468 — Superior court of criminal jurisdiction
Every superior court of criminal jurisdiction has jurisdiction to try any indictable offence.
Section 469 — Court of criminal jurisdiction
Every court of criminal jurisdiction has jurisdiction to try an indictable offence other than an offence under any of the following sections: section 47 (treason), [Repealed, 2018, c. 29, s. 61]…
Section 470 — Jurisdiction over person
Subject to this Act, every superior court of criminal jurisdiction and every court of criminal jurisdiction that has power to try an indictable offence is competent to try an accused for that offence…
Section 471 — Trial by jury compulsory
Except where otherwise expressly provided by law, every accused who is charged with an indictable offence shall be tried by a court composed of a judge and jury.
Section 472
[Repealed, R.S., 1985, c. 27 (1st Supp.), s. 63]
Section 473 — Trial without jury
Notwithstanding anything in this Act, an accused charged with an offence listed in section 469 may, with the consent of the accused and the Attorney General, be tried without a jury by a judge of a…
Section 474 — Adjournment when no jury summoned
Where the competent authority has determined that a panel of jurors is not to be summoned for a term or sittings of the court for the trial of criminal cases in any territorial division, the clerk of…
Section 475 — Accused absconding during trial
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, where an accused, whether or not he is charged jointly with another, absconds during the course of his trial, he shall be deemed to have waived his…
Section 476 — Special jurisdictions
For the purposes of this Act, where an offence is committed in or on any water or on a bridge between two or more territorial divisions, the offence shall be deemed to have been committed in any of…
Section 477 — Definition of ship
In sections 477.1 to 477.4, ship includes any description of vessel, boat or craft designed, used or capable of being used solely or partly for marine navigation, without regard to method or lack of…
Section 477.1 — Offences outside of Canada
Every person who commits an act or omission that, if it occurred in Canada, would be an offence under a federal law, within the meaning of section 2 of the Oceans Act , is deemed to have committed…
Section 477.2 — Consent of Attorney General of Canada
No proceedings in respect of an offence committed in or on the territorial sea of Canada shall be continued unless the consent of the Attorney General of Canada is obtained not later than eight days…
Section 477.3 — Exercising powers of arrest, entry, etc.
Every power of arrest, entry, search or seizure or other power that could be exercised in Canada in respect of an act or omission referred to in section 477.1 may be exercised, in the circumstances…
Section 477.4
[Repealed, 1996, c. 31, s. 71] In proceedings in respect of an offence, a certificate referred to in subsection 23(1) of the Oceans Act , or a certificate issued by or under the authority of the…
Section 478 — Offence committed entirely in one province
Subject to this Act, a court in a province shall not try an offence committed entirely in another province. Every proprietor, publisher, editor or other person charged with the publication of a…
Section 479 — Offence outstanding in same province
Where an accused is charged with an offence that is alleged to have been committed in the province in which he is, he may, if the offence is not an offence mentioned in section 469 and in the case of…
Section 480 — Offence in unorganized territory
Where an offence is committed in an unorganized tract of country in any province or on a lake, river or other water therein, not included in a territorial division or in a provisional judicial…
Section 481 — Offence not in a province
Where an offence is committed in a part of Canada not in a province, proceedings in respect thereof may be commenced and the accused may be charged, tried and punished within any territorial division…
Section 481.1 — Offence in Canadian waters
Where an offence is committed in or on the territorial sea of Canada or any area of the sea that forms part of the internal waters of Canada, proceedings in respect thereof may, whether or not the…
Section 481.2 — Offence outside Canada
Subject to this or any other Act of Parliament, where an act or omission is committed outside Canada and the act or omission is an offence when committed outside Canada under this or any other Act of…
Section 481.3 — Appearance of accused at trial
For greater certainty, the provisions of this Act relating to the requirement of the appearance of an accused at proceedings, and the exceptions to that requirement apply to proceedings commenced in…
Section 482 — Power to make rules
Every superior court of criminal jurisdiction and every court of appeal may make rules of court not inconsistent with this or any other Act of Parliament, and any rules so made apply to any…
Section 482.1 — Power to make rules respecting case management
A court referred to in subsection 482(1) or (2) may make rules for case management, including rules for the determination of any matter that would assist the court in effective and efficient case…
Section 483 — Officials with powers of two justices
Every judge or provincial court judge authorized by the law of the province in which he is appointed to do anything that is required to be done by two or more justices may do alone anything that this…
Section 484 — Preserving order in court
Every judge or provincial court judge has the same power and authority to preserve order in a court over which he presides as may be exercised by the superior court of criminal jurisdiction of the…
Section 485 — Procedural irregularities
Jurisdiction over an offence is not lost by reason of the failure of any court, judge, provincial court judge or justice to act in the exercise of that jurisdiction at any particular time, or by…
Section 485.1 — Recommencement where dismissal for want of prosecution
Where an indictment in respect of a transaction is dismissed or deemed by any provision of this Act to be dismissed for want of prosecution, a new information shall not be laid and a new indictment…
Section 485.2 — Summons — Identification of Criminals Act
A justice or judge may, on application in writing and on oath in Form 6.1, issue a summons, in Form 6.2, requiring an accused or offender to appear at a time and place stated in it for the purposes…
Section 486 — Exclusion of public
Any proceedings against an accused shall be held in open court, but the presiding judge or justice may, on application of the prosecutor or a witness or on his or her own motion, order the exclusion…
Section 486.1 — Support person — witnesses under 18 or who have a disability
In any proceedings against an accused, the judge or justice shall, on application of the prosecutor in respect of a witness who is under the age of 18 years or who has a mental or physical…
Section 486.2 — Testimony outside court room — witnesses under 18 or who have a disability
Despite section 650, in any proceedings against an accused, the judge or justice shall, on application of the prosecutor in respect of a witness who is under the age of 18 years or who is able to…
Section 486.3 — Accused not to cross-examine witness under 18
In any proceedings against an accused, the judge or justice shall, on application of the prosecutor in respect of a witness who is under the age of 18 years, or on application of such a witness,…
Section 486.31 — Non-disclosure of witness’ identity
In any proceedings against an accused, the judge or justice may, on application of the prosecutor in respect of a witness, or on application of a witness, make an order directing that any information…
Section 486.4 — Order restricting publication — sexual offences
Subject to subsection (2), the presiding judge or justice may make an order directing that any information that could identify the victim or a witness shall not be published in any document or…