Criminal Code
Sections and provisions with full text and the judgments that cite each one.
Section 82.1 — Sentences to be served consecutively
A sentence imposed on a person for an offence under subsection 82(2) shall be served consecutively to any other punishment imposed on the person for an offence arising out of the same event or series…
Section 82.2 — Definition of device
For the purposes of sections 82.3 to 82.5, device means any of the following: a nuclear explosive device; a device that disperses radioactive material; a device that emits ionizing radiation and that…
Section 82.3 — Possession, etc., of nuclear material, radioactive material or device
Everyone who, with intent to cause death, serious bodily harm or substantial damage to property or the environment, makes a device or possesses, uses, transfers, exports, imports, alters or disposes…
Section 82.4 — Use or alteration of nuclear material, radioactive material or device
Everyone who, with intent to compel a person, government or international organization to do or refrain from doing any act, uses or alters nuclear material, radioactive material or a device or…
Section 82.5 — Commission of indictable offence to obtain nuclear material, etc.
Everyone who commits an indictable offence under this or any other Act of Parliament, with intent to obtain nuclear material, radioactive material or a device or to obtain access to a nuclear…
Section 82.6 — Threats
Everyone who threatens to commit an offence under any of sections 82.3 to 82.5 is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 14 years.
Section 82.7 — Armed forces
For greater certainty, sections 82.3 to 82.6 do not apply to an act that is committed during an armed conflict and that, at the time and in the place of its commission, is in accordance with…
Section 83 — Engaging in prize fight
Every one who engages as a principal in a prize fight, advises, encourages or promotes a prize fight, or is present at a prize fight as an aid, second, surgeon, umpire, backer or reporter, is guilty…
Section 83.01 — Definitions
The following definitions apply in this Part. Canadian means a Canadian citizen, a permanent resident within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act or a body…
Section 83.02 — Providing or collecting property for certain activities
Every person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years who, directly or indirectly, wilfully and without lawful justification or excuse,…
Section 83.03 — Providing, making available, etc., property or services for terrorist purposes
Every person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years who, directly or indirectly, wilfully and without lawful justification or excuse,…
Section 83.031 — Definition of Public Safety Minister
In sections 83.032 to 83.0392, Public Safety Minister means the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness. Any Minister referred to in any of sections 83.032 to 83.0392 may designate a…
Section 83.032 — Authorization
On application, the Public Safety Minister may authorize an eligible person to carry out, in a specified geographic area that is controlled by a terrorist group, a specified activity that would…
Section 83.033 — Notice of refusal
The Public Safety Minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs or the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, as the case may be, must give notice of a decision to refuse an application made under…
Section 83.034 — Additional security reviews
At any time during the period of validity of an authorization granted under section 83.032 or renewed under section 83.035, the Public Safety Minister may conduct additional security reviews under…
Section 83.035 — Renewal of authorization
The Public Safety Minister may renew an authorization granted under section 83.032 for successive periods of not more than five years each on application, for each renewal, made within any period set…
Section 83.036 — Amendment to authorization
The Public Safety Minister may amend an authorization granted under section 83.032 or renewed under section 83.035, including any terms and conditions included in it. Despite subsection (1), the…
Section 83.037 — Authorization — suspension and revocation
The Public Safety Minister may, at any time after granting an authorization under section 83.032, suspend or revoke it or restrict its scope if a person to whom the authorization applies fails to…
Section 83.038 — Assistance to Public Safety Minister
The following entities may assist the Public Safety Minister in the administration and enforcement of sections 83.031 to 83.0392, including by collecting information from and disclosing information…
Section 83.039 — Judicial review
The rules set out in subsection (2) apply to judicial review proceedings in respect of decisions made by the Public Safety Minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs or the Minister of Citizenship and…
Section 83.0391 — Regulations
The Governor in Council may, on the recommendation of the Public Safety Minister, make regulations respecting applications for authorization referred to in subsection 83.032(1); respecting requests…
Section 83.0392 — Annual report
The Public Safety Minister must prepare and cause to be laid before each House of Parliament, within 90 days after the first day of January of every year, a report on the operation of sections 83.031…
Section 83.04 — Using or possessing property for terrorist purposes
Every person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years who uses property, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, for the purpose of…
Section 83.05 — Establishment of list
The Governor in Council may, by regulation, establish a list on which the Governor in Council may place any entity if, on the recommendation of the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency…
Section 83.06 — Return of information
For the purposes of subsection 83.05(6), any information that is obtained in confidence from a government, an institution or an agency of a foreign state, from an international organization of states…
Section 83.07 — Mistaken identity
An entity whose name is the same as or similar to a name, appearing on the list, of a listed entity and who claims not to be that listed entity may apply in writing to the Minister of Public Safety…
Section 83.08 — Freezing of property
No person in Canada and no Canadian outside Canada shall knowingly deal directly or indirectly in any property that is owned or controlled by or on behalf of a terrorist group; enter into or…
Section 83.09 — Exemptions
The Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, or a person designated by him or her, may authorize any person in Canada or any Canadian outside Canada to carry out a specified activity or…
Section 83.1 — Disclosure
Every person in Canada and every Canadian outside Canada shall disclose without delay to the Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or to the Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence…
Section 83.11 — Audit
The following entities must determine on a continuing basis whether they are in possession or control of property owned or controlled by or on behalf of a listed entity: authorized foreign banks…
Section 83.12 — Offences — freezing of property, disclosure or audit
Every person who contravenes any of sections 83.08, 83.1 and 83.11 is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years; or on summary…
Section 83.13 — Seizure and restraint of assets
Where a judge of the Federal Court, on an ex parte application by the Attorney General, after examining the application in private, is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to believe that…
Section 83.14 — Application for order of forfeiture
The Attorney General may make an application to a judge of the Federal Court for an order of forfeiture in respect of property owned or controlled by or on behalf of a terrorist group; or property…
Section 83.15 — Disposition of property
Subsection 462.42(6) and sections 462.43 and 462.46 apply, with such modifications as the circumstances require, to property subject to a warrant or restraint order issued under subsection 83.13(1)…
Section 83.16 — Interim preservation rights
Pending any appeal of an order made under section 83.14, property restrained under an order issued under section 83.13 shall continue to be restrained, property seized under a warrant issued under…
Section 83.17 — Other forfeiture provisions unaffected
This Part does not affect the operation of any other provision of this or any other Act of Parliament respecting the forfeiture of property. Property is subject to forfeiture under subsection…
Section 83.18 — Participation in activity of terrorist group
Every person who knowingly participates in or contributes to, directly or indirectly, any activity of a terrorist group for the purpose of enhancing the ability of any terrorist group to facilitate…
Section 83.181 — Leaving Canada to participate in activity of terrorist group
Every person who leaves or attempts to leave Canada, or goes or attempts to go on board a conveyance with the intent to leave Canada, for the purpose of committing an act or omission outside Canada…
Section 83.19 — Facilitating terrorist activity
Every one who knowingly facilitates a terrorist activity is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years. For the purposes of this Part, a…
Section 83.191 — Leaving Canada to facilitate terrorist activity
Everyone who leaves or attempts to leave Canada, or goes or attempts to go on board a conveyance with the intent to leave Canada, for the purpose of committing an act or omission outside Canada that,…
Section 83.2 — Commission of offence for terrorist group
Every one 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 terrorist group is guilty of an indictable…
Section 83.201 — Leaving Canada to commit offence for terrorist group
Everyone who leaves or attempts to leave Canada, or goes or attempts to go on board a conveyance with the intent to leave Canada, for the purpose of committing an act or omission outside Canada that,…
Section 83.202 — Leaving Canada to commit offence that is terrorist activity
Everyone who leaves or attempts to leave Canada, or goes or attempts to go on board a conveyance with the intent to leave Canada, for the purpose of committing an act or omission outside Canada that,…
Section 83.21 — Instructing to carry out activity for terrorist group
Every person who knowingly instructs, directly or indirectly, any person to carry out any activity for the benefit of, at the direction of or in association with a terrorist group, for the purpose of…
Section 83.22 — Instructing to carry out terrorist activity
Every person who knowingly instructs, directly or indirectly, any person to carry out a terrorist activity is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for life. An offence may be…
Section 83.221 — Counselling commission of terrorism offence
Every person who counsels another person to commit a terrorism offence without identifying a specific terrorism offence is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term of…
Section 83.222 — Warrant of seizure
A judge who is satisfied by information on oath that there are reasonable grounds to believe that any publication, copies of which are kept for sale or distribution in premises within the court’s…
Section 83.223 — Order to computer system’s custodian
If a judge is satisfied by information on oath that there are reasonable grounds to believe that there is material — that is terrorist propaganda or computer data that makes terrorist propaganda…
Section 83.23 — Concealing person who carried out terrorist activity
Every person who knowingly harbours or conceals another person whom they know to be a person who has carried out a terrorist activity, for the purpose of enabling that other person to facilitate or…
Section 83.231 — Hoax — terrorist activity
Every one commits an offence who, without lawful excuse and with intent to cause any person to fear death, bodily harm, substantial damage to property or serious interference with the lawful use or…