Criminal Code
Sections and provisions with full text and the judgments that cite each one.
Section 117 — Return to owner
Where the competent authority that makes a prohibition order or that would have had jurisdiction to make the order is, on application for an order under this section, satisfied that a person, other…
Section 117.01 — Possession contrary to order
Subject to subsection (4), every person commits an offence who possesses a firearm, a cross-bow, a prohibited weapon, a restricted weapon, a prohibited device, a firearm part, any ammunition, any…
Section 117.0101 — Application for emergency limitations on access order
Any person may make an ex parte application to a provincial court judge for an order under this section if the person believes on reasonable grounds that the person against whom the order is sought…
Section 117.0102 — Order denying access to information
If an order is made under subsection 117.0101(3), a provincial court judge may, on application by the person who applied for the order or on the judge’s own motion, if the judge considers that it is…
Section 117.0103 — Order to delete identifying information
If an order is made under subsection 117.0101(3) or 117.0102(1), a provincial court judge may, on application by the person who applied for the order referred to in subsection 117.0101(3) or on the…
Section 117.0104 — Order under subsection 117.011(5)
If a provincial court judge makes an order under subsection 117.0101(3), the judge may, on the judge’s own motion, fix a date for the hearing of an application made under subsection 117.011(1) and…
Section 117.011 — Application for order
A peace officer, firearms officer or chief firearms officer may apply to a provincial court judge for an order under this section where the peace officer, firearms officer or chief firearms officer…
Section 117.012 — Revocation of order under subsection 117.0101(3) or 117.011(5)
A provincial court judge may, on application by the person against whom an order is made under subsection 117.0101(3) or 117.011(5), revoke the order if satisfied that the circumstances for which it…
Section 117.02 — Search and seizure without warrant where offence committed
Where a peace officer believes on reasonable grounds that a weapon, an imitation firearm, a prohibited device, a firearm part, any ammunition, any prohibited ammunition or an explosive substance was…
Section 117.03 — Seizure on failure to produce authorization
Despite section 117.02, a peace officer who finds a person in possession of a prohibited firearm, a restricted firearm or a non-restricted firearm who fails, on demand, to produce, for inspection by…
Section 117.04 — Application for warrant to search and seize
Where, pursuant to an application made by a peace officer with respect to any person, a justice is satisfied by information on oath that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the person…
Section 117.05 — Application for disposition
If any thing or document has been seized under subsection 117.04(1) or (2), a justice having jurisdiction in respect of the matter and, in the case of an execution of a warrant, jurisdiction in the…
Section 117.06 — Where no finding or application
Any thing or document seized pursuant to subsection 117.04(1) or (2) shall be returned to the person from whom it was seized if no application is made under subsection 117.05(1) within thirty days…
Section 117.07 — Public officers
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, but subject to section 117.1, no public officer is guilty of an offence under this Act or the Firearms Act by reason only that the public officer…
Section 117.071 — Preclearance officers
Despite any other provision of this Act, but subject to section 117.1, no preclearance officer , as defined in section 5 of the Preclearance Act, 2016 , is guilty of an offence under this Act or the…
Section 117.08 — Individuals acting for police force, Canadian Forces and visiting forces
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, but subject to section 117.1, no individual is guilty of an offence under this Act or the Firearms Act by reason only that the individual possesses a…
Section 117.09 — Employees of business with licence
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, but subject to section 117.1, no individual who is the holder of a licence to possess and acquire restricted firearms and who is employed by a…
Section 117.1 — Restriction
Sections 117.07 to 117.09 do not apply if the public officer or the individual is subject to a prohibition order and acts contrary to that order or to an authorization or a licence issued under the…
Section 117.11 — Onus on the accused
Where, in any proceedings for an offence under any of sections 89, 90, 91, 93, 97, 101, 104 and 105, any question arises as to whether a person is the holder of an authorization, a licence or a…
Section 117.12 — Authorizations, etc., as evidence
In any proceedings under this Act or any other Act of Parliament, a document purporting to be an authorization, a licence or a registration certificate is evidence of the statements contained…
Section 117.13 — Certificate of analyst
A certificate purporting to be signed by an analyst stating that the analyst has analyzed any weapon, prohibited device, ammunition, prohibited ammunition or explosive substance, or any part or…
Section 117.14 — Amnesty period
The Governor in Council may, by order, declare for any purpose referred to in subsection (2) any period as an amnesty period with respect to any weapon, prohibited device, prohibited ammunition,…
Section 117.15 — Regulations
Subject to subsection (2), the Governor in Council may make regulations prescribing anything that by this Part is to be or may be prescribed. In making regulations, the Governor in Council may not…
Section 118 — Definitions
In this Part, evidence or statement means an assertion of fact, opinion, belief or knowledge, whether material or not and whether admissible or not; ( témoignage , déposition ou déclaration )…
Section 119 — Bribery of judicial officers, etc.
Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years who being the holder of a judicial office, or being a member of Parliament or of the…
Section 120 — Bribery of officers
Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years who being a justice, police commissioner, peace officer, public officer or officer of a…
Section 121 — Frauds on the government
Every one commits an offence who directly or indirectly gives, offers or agrees to give or offer to an official or to any member of his family, or to any one for the benefit of an official, or being…
Section 121.1 — Selling, etc., of tobacco products and raw leaf tobacco
No person shall sell, offer for sale, transport, deliver, distribute or have in their possession for the purpose of sale a tobacco product, or raw leaf tobacco that is not packaged, unless it is…
Section 122 — Breach of trust by public officer
Every official who, in connection with the duties of their office, commits fraud or a breach of trust, whether or not the fraud or breach of trust would be an offence if it were committed in relation…
Section 123 — Municipal corruption
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 directly or…
Section 124 — Selling or purchasing office
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 purports to sell or…
Section 125 — Influencing or negotiating appointments or dealing in offices
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 receives, agrees to…
Section 126 — Disobeying a statute
Every person who, without lawful excuse, contravenes an Act of Parliament by intentionally doing anything that it forbids or by intentionally omitting to do anything that it requires to be done is,…
Section 127 — Disobeying order of court
Every one who, without lawful excuse, disobeys a lawful order made by a court of justice or by a person or body of persons authorized by any Act to make or give the order, other than an order for the…
Section 128 — Misconduct of officers executing process
Every peace officer or coroner 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,…
Section 129 — Offences relating to public or peace officer
Every one who resists or wilfully obstructs a public officer or peace officer in the execution of his duty or any person lawfully acting in aid of such an officer, omits, without reasonable excuse,…
Section 130 — Personating peace officer
Everyone commits an offence who falsely represents himself to be a peace officer or a public officer; or not being a peace officer or public officer, uses a badge or article of uniform or equipment…
Section 130.1 — Aggravating circumstance
If a person is convicted of an offence under section 130, the court imposing the sentence on the person shall consider as an aggravating circumstance the fact that the accused personated a peace…
Section 131 — Perjury
Subject to subsection (3), every one commits perjury who, with intent to mislead, makes before a person who is authorized by law to permit it to be made before him a false statement under oath or…
Section 132 — Punishment
Every one who commits perjury is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.
Section 133 — Corroboration
No person shall be convicted of an offence under section 132 on the evidence of only one witness unless the evidence of that witness is corroborated in a material particular by evidence that…
Section 134 — Idem
Subject to subsection (2), every one who, not being specially permitted, authorized or required by law to make a statement under oath or solemn affirmation, makes such a statement, by affidavit,…
Section 135
[Repealed, R.S., 1985, c. 27 (1st Supp.), s. 17]
Section 136 — Witness giving contradictory evidence
Every one who, being a witness in a judicial proceeding, gives evidence with respect to any matter of fact or knowledge and who subsequently, in a judicial proceeding, gives evidence that is contrary…
Section 137 — Fabricating evidence
Every one who, with intent to mislead, fabricates anything with intent that it shall be used as evidence in a judicial proceeding, existing or proposed, by any means other than perjury or incitement…
Section 138 — Offences relating to affidavits
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 signs a writing that…
Section 139 — Obstructing justice
Every one who wilfully attempts in any manner to obstruct, pervert or defeat the course of justice in a judicial proceeding, by indemnifying or agreeing to indemnify a surety, in any way and either…
Section 140 — Public mischief
Every one commits public mischief who, with intent to mislead, causes a peace officer to enter on or continue an investigation by making a false statement that accuses some other person of having…
Section 141 — Compounding indictable offence
Every person who asks for or obtains or agrees to receive or obtain any valuable consideration for themselves or any other person by agreeing to compound or conceal an indictable offence is guilty of…
Section 142 — Corruptly taking reward for recovery of goods
Every person who corruptly accepts any valuable consideration, directly or indirectly, under pretence or on account of helping any person to recover anything obtained by the commission of an…