Criminal Code
Sections and provisions with full text and the judgments that cite each one.
Section 487.093 — Duty of person executing certain warrants
A person who executes a warrant issued under subsection 110.1(5), 117.0101(6), 117.04(1), 199(1), 395(1) or 487(1) shall, during that execution, give the following to any person who is present and…
Section 487.1 — Warrants, etc., by telecommunication
Despite anything in this Act, the Attorney General, a peace officer or a public officer may, if they are permitted to apply for any of the following, submit their application by a means of…
Section 487.11 — Where warrant not necessary
A peace officer, or a public officer who has been appointed or designated to administer or enforce any federal or provincial law and whose duties include the enforcement of this or any other Act of…
Section 487.2 — Restriction on publication
If a search warrant is issued under section 487 or a search is made under such a warrant, everyone who publishes in any document, or broadcasts or transmits in any way, any information with respect…
Section 487.3 — Order denying access to information
On application made at the time an application is made for a warrant under this or any other Act of Parliament, an order under any of sections 487.013 to 487.018 or an authorization under section 529…
Section 488 — Execution of search warrant
A warrant issued under section 487 shall be executed by day, unless the justice is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for it to be executed by night; the reasonable grounds are included in…
Section 488.01 — Definitions
The following definitions apply in this section and in section 488.02. data has the same meaning as in section 487.011. ( données ) document has the same meaning as in section 487.011. ( document )…
Section 488.02 — Documents
Any document obtained pursuant to a warrant, authorization or order issued in accordance with subsection 488.01(3), or that is the subject of an order made under subsection 488.01(6) or paragraph…
Section 488.1 — Definitions
In this section, custodian means a person in whose custody a package is placed pursuant to subsection (2); ( gardien ) document , for the purposes of this section, has the same meaning as in section…
Section 489 — Seizure of things not specified
Every person who executes a warrant may seize, in addition to the things mentioned in the warrant, any thing that the person believes on reasonable grounds has been obtained by the commission of an…
Section 489.1 — Restitution of thing or report
Subject to this or any other Act of Parliament, if a peace officer has seized anything under a warrant issued under this Act, under section 487.11 or 489, or otherwise in the execution of duties…
Section 490 — Detention of things seized
Subject to this or any other Act of Parliament, where, pursuant to paragraph 489.1(1)(b) or subsection 489.1(2), anything that has been seized is brought before a justice or a report in respect of…
Section 490.01 — Perishable things
Where any thing seized pursuant to this Act is perishable or likely to depreciate rapidly, the person who seized the thing or any other person having custody of the thing may return it to its lawful…
Section 490.011 — Definitions
The following definitions apply in this section and in sections 490.012 to 490.07. crime of a sexual nature means a crime referred to in subsection 3(2) of the Sex Offender Information Registration…
Section 490.012 — Order
Subject to subsection (5), when a court imposes a sentence on a person for a designated offence, it shall make an order in Form 52 requiring the person to comply with the Sex Offender Information…
Section 490.013 — Date order begins
An order made under section 490.012 begins on the day on which it is made. An order made under subsection 490.012(1) or (3) subject to subsections (3) and (5), ends 10 years after it was made if the…
Section 490.0131 — Reasons
The court shall state the designated offence, and the term of imprisonment imposed for it, that form the basis of an order made under subsection 490.012(1); and give reasons for a decision under…
Section 490.0132 — Failure to make order
If the court does not consider the matter under any of subsections 490.012(1) to (3) at the time the sentence is imposed, or a verdict of not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder is…
Section 490.014 — Appeal
The prosecutor, or a person who is subject to an order made under section 490.012, may appeal from a decision of the court under section 490.012 or 490.013 on any ground of appeal that raises a…
Section 490.015 — Application for termination order
A person who is subject to an order may apply for a termination order if five years have elapsed since the order was made, in the case of an order referred to in paragraph 490.013(2)(a); if 10 years…
Section 490.016 — Termination order
The court shall make a termination order if it is satisfied that the person has established that there would be no connection between continuing an order or obligation and the purpose of helping…
Section 490.017 — Appeal
The prosecutor or the person who applied for a termination order may appeal from a decision made under subsection 490.016(1) on any ground of appeal that raises a question of law or of mixed law and…
Section 490.018 — Requirements relating to notice
When a court or appeal court makes an order under section 490.012, it shall cause the order to be read by or to the person who is subject to it; a copy of the order to be given to that person; that…
Section 490.019 — Obligation to comply
A person who is served with a notice in Form 53 shall comply with the Sex Offender Information Registration Act for the applicable period specified in section 490.022 unless a court makes an…
Section 490.02 — Persons who may be served
The Attorney General of a province or minister of justice of a territory may serve a person with a notice only if the person was convicted of, or found not criminally responsible on account of mental…
Section 490.021 — Period for and method of service
The notice shall be personally served within one year after the day on which the Sex Offender Information Registration Act comes into force. If a person referred to in paragraph 490.02(1)(a) is…
Section 490.022 — Date obligation begins
The obligation under section 490.019 begins either one year after the day on which the person is served with the notice or when an exemption order is refused under subsection 490.023(2), whichever is…
Section 490.023 — Application for exemption order
A person who is not subject to an order under section 490.012 of this Act or section 227.01 of the National Defence Act may apply for an order exempting them from the obligation within one year after…
Section 490.024 — Appeal
The Attorney General or the person who applied for an exemption order may appeal from a decision of the court under subsection 490.023(2) on any ground of appeal that raises a question of law or of…
Section 490.025 — Requirements relating to notice
If a court refuses to make an exemption order or an appeal court dismisses an appeal from such a decision or quashes an exemption order, it shall cause the Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted…
Section 490.026 — Application for termination order
A person who is subject to an obligation under section 490.019 may apply for a termination order unless they are also subject to an obligation under section 490.02901, under section 227.06 of the…
Section 490.027 — Termination order
The court shall make an order terminating the obligation if it is satisfied that the person has established that there would be no connection between continuing the obligation and the purpose of…
Section 490.028 — Deemed application
If a person is eligible to apply for both an exemption order under section 490.023 and a termination order under section 490.026 within one year after they are served with a notice under section…
Section 490.029 — Appeal
The Attorney General or the person who applied for a termination order may appeal from a decision of the court made under subsection 490.027(1) on any ground of appeal that raises a question of law…
Section 490.02901 — Obligation
A person who is served with a notice in Form 54 shall comply with the Sex Offender Information Registration Act for the applicable period specified in section 490.02904 unless a court makes an…
Section 490.02902 — Persons who may be served
The Attorney General of a province, or the minister of justice of a territory, may serve a person with a notice in Form 54 only if the person arrived in Canada on or after April 15, 2011 and they…
Section 490.02903 — Period for and method of service
A notice in Form 54 shall be personally served. An affidavit of the person who served the notice, sworn before a commissioner or other person authorized to take affidavits, is evidence of the service…
Section 490.02904 — When obligation begins
The obligation under section 490.02901 begins on the day on which the person is served with the notice. The obligation ends on the day on which an exemption order is made. If subsection (2) does not…
Section 490.02905 — Application for exemption order
A person who is served with a notice in Form 54 under section 490.02903 may apply to a court of criminal jurisdiction for an order exempting them from the obligation within one year after they are…
Section 490.029051 — Application for variation order
A person who is served with a notice in Form 54 under section 490.02903 may, within one year after they are served, apply to a court of criminal jurisdiction for an order to vary the duration of the…
Section 490.02906 — Appeal
The Attorney General or the person who applied for an exemption order or a variation order may appeal from a decision under subsection 490.02905(2) or (2.2) or 490.029051(2) or (3) on any ground of…
Section 490.02907 — Requirements relating to notice
If an appeal court quashes an exemption order, it shall cause the Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Attorney General of the province, or the minister of justice of the…
Section 490.02908 — Application for termination order
A person who is subject to an obligation under section 490.02901 may apply to a court of criminal jurisdiction for a termination order unless they are also subject to another obligation under that…
Section 490.02909 — Termination order
The court shall make an order terminating the obligation if it is satisfied that the person has established that there would be no connection between continuing the obligation and the purpose of…
Section 490.0291 — Appeal
The Attorney General or the person who applied for a termination order may appeal from a decision under subsection 490.02909(1) on any ground of appeal that raises a question of law or of mixed law…
Section 490.02911 — Obligation to advise police service
A person who was convicted of or found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder for an offence outside Canada shall, if the offence is equivalent to one referred to in paragraph (a)…
Section 490.029111 — Application for exemption order
A person who is subject to an obligation under section 36.1 of the International Transfer of Offenders Act may apply to a court of criminal jurisdiction for an order exempting them from the…
Section 490.029112 — Application for variation order
A person who is subject to an obligation under section 36.1 of the International Transfer of Offenders Act may, within one year after the day of their transfer to Canada under that Act, apply to a…
Section 490.029113 — Appeal
The Attorney General or the person who applied for an exemption order or a variation order may appeal from a decision under subsection 490.029111(2) or 490.029112(2) or (3) on any ground of appeal…
Section 490.029114 — Requirements relating to notice
If an appeal court quashes an exemption order, it shall cause the Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Attorney General of the province, or the minister of justice of the…