Criminal Code
Sections and provisions with full text and the judgments that cite each one.
Section 143
[Repealed, 2018, c. 29, s. 8]
Section 144 — Prison breach
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 by force or violence…
Section 145 — Escape and being at large without excuse
Every person who escapes from lawful custody or who is, before the expiration of a term of imprisonment to which they were sentenced, at large in or outside Canada without lawful excuse, is guilty of…
Section 146 — Permitting or assisting escape
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 permits a person whom…
Section 147 — Rescue or permitting escape
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 rescues any person…
Section 148 — Assisting prisoner of war to escape
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 knowingly assists a…
Section 149 — Service of term for escape
Notwithstanding section 743.1, a court that convicts a person for an escape committed while undergoing imprisonment may order that the term of imprisonment be served in a penitentiary, even if the…
Section 150 — Definitions
In this Part, guardian includes any person who has in law or in fact the custody or control of another person; ( tuteur ) public place includes any place to which the public have access as of right…
Section 150.1 — Consent no defence
Subject to subsections (2) to (2.2), when an accused is charged with an offence under section 151 or 152 or subsection 153(1), 160(3) or 173(2) or is charged with an offence under section 271, 272 or…
Section 151 — Sexual interference
Every person who, for a sexual purpose, touches, directly or indirectly, with a part of the body or with an object, any part of the body of a person under the age of 16 years is guilty of an…
Section 152 — Invitation to sexual touching
Every person who, for a sexual purpose, invites, counsels or incites a person under the age of 16 years to touch, directly or indirectly, with a part of the body or with an object, the body of any…
Section 153 — Sexual exploitation
Every person commits an offence who is in a position of trust or authority towards a young person, who is a person with whom the young person is in a relationship of dependency or who is in a…
Section 153.1 — Sexual exploitation of person with disability
Every person who is in a position of trust or authority towards a person with a mental or physical disability or who is a person with whom a person with a mental or physical disability is in a…
Section 154
[Repealed, R.S., 1985, c. 19 (3rd Supp.), s. 1]
Section 155 — Incest
Every one commits incest who, knowing that another person is by blood relationship his or her parent, child, brother, sister, grandparent or grandchild, as the case may be, has sexual intercourse…
Section 156 — Historical offences
No person shall be convicted of any sexual offence under this Act as it read from time to time before January 4, 1983 unless the conduct alleged would be an offence under this Act if it occurred on…
Section 157 and 158
[Repealed, R.S., 1985, c. 19 (3rd Supp.), s. 2]
Section 159
[Repealed, 2019, c. 25, s. 54]
Section 160 — Bestiality
Every person who commits bestiality is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction. Every…
Section 161 — Order of prohibition
When an offender is convicted, or is discharged on the conditions prescribed in a probation order under section 730, of an offence referred to in subsection (1.1) in respect of a person who is under…
Section 162 — Voyeurism
Every one commits an offence who, surreptitiously, observes — including by mechanical or electronic means — or makes a visual recording of a person who is in circumstances that give rise to a…
Section 162.1 — Publication, etc., of an intimate image without consent
Everyone who knowingly publishes, distributes, transmits, sells, makes available or advertises an intimate image of a person knowing that the person depicted in the image did not give their consent…
Section 162.2 — Prohibition order
When an offender is convicted, or is discharged on the conditions prescribed in a probation order under section 730, of an offence referred to in subsection 162.1(1), the court that sentences or…
Section 163 — Obscene materials
Every person commits an offence who makes, prints, publishes, distributes, circulates or has in their possession for the purpose of publication, distribution or circulation any obscene written…
Section 163.1 — Definition of child sexual abuse and exploitation material
In this section, child sexual abuse and exploitation material means a photographic, film, video or other visual representation, whether or not it was made by electronic or mechanical means, that…
Section 164 — Warrant of seizure
A judge may issue a warrant authorizing seizure of copies of a recording, a publication, a representation or any written material, if the judge is satisfied by information on oath that there are…
Section 164.1 — Warrant of seizure
If a judge is satisfied by information on oath that there are reasonable grounds to believe that there is material — namely, child sexual abuse and exploitation material as defined in section 163.1,…
Section 164.2 — Forfeiture after conviction
On application of the Attorney General, a court that convicts a person of an offence under section 162.1, 163.1, 172.1 or 172.2, in addition to any other punishment that it may impose, may order that…
Section 164.3 — Relief from forfeiture
Within thirty days after an order under subsection 164.2(1) is made, a person who claims an interest in the thing forfeited may apply in writing to a judge for an order under subsection (4). The…
Section 165
[Repealed, 2018, c. 29, s. 13]
Section 166
[Repealed, 1994, c. 44, s. 9]
Section 167 — Immoral theatrical performance
Every one commits an offence who, being the lessee, manager, agent or person in charge of a theatre, presents or gives or allows to be presented or given therein an immoral, indecent or obscene…
Section 168 — Mailing obscene matter
Every one commits an offence who makes use of the mails for the purpose of transmitting or delivering anything that is obscene, indecent, immoral or scurrilous. Subsection (1) does not apply to a…
Section 169 — Punishment
Every one who commits an offence under section 163, 165, 167 or 168 is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years; or an offence punishable on…
Section 170 — Parent or guardian procuring sexual activity
Every parent or guardian of a person under the age of 18 years who procures the person for the purpose of engaging in any sexual activity prohibited by this Act with a person other than the parent or…
Section 171 — Householder permitting prohibited sexual activity
Every owner, occupier or manager of premises, or any other person who has control of premises or assists in the management or control of premises, who knowingly permits a person under the age of 18…
Section 171.1 — Making sexually explicit material available to child
Every person commits an offence who transmits, makes available, distributes or sells sexually explicit material to a person who is, or who the accused believes is, under the age of 18 years, for the…
Section 172 — Corrupting children
Every person who, in the home of a child, participates in adultery or sexual immorality or indulges in habitual drunkenness or any other form of vice, and by doing so endangers the morals of the…
Section 172.1 — Luring a child
Every person commits an offence who, by a means of telecommunication, communicates with a person who is, or who the accused believes is, under the age of 18 years, for the purpose of facilitating the…
Section 172.2 — Agreement or arrangement — sexual offence against child
Every person commits an offence who, by a means of telecommunication, agrees with a person, or makes an arrangement with a person, to commit an offence under subsection 153(1), section 155, 163.1,…
Section 173 — Indecent acts
Everyone who wilfully does an indecent act in a public place in the presence of one or more persons, or in any place with intent to insult or offend any person, is guilty of an indictable offence and…
Section 174 — Nudity
Every one who, without lawful excuse, is nude in a public place, or is nude and exposed to public view while on private property, whether or not the property is his own, is guilty of an offence…
Section 175 — Causing disturbance, indecent exhibition, loitering, etc.
Every one who not being in a dwelling-house, causes a disturbance in or near a public place, by fighting, screaming, shouting, swearing, singing or using insulting or obscene language, by being…
Section 176 — Obstructing or violence to or arrest of officiating clergyman
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 by threats or force,…
Section 177 — Trespassing at night
Every person who, without lawful excuse, loiters or prowls at night on the property of another person near a dwelling-house situated on that property is guilty of an offence punishable on summary…
Section 178
[Repealed, 2018, c. 29, s. 14]
Section 179
[Repealed, 2019, c. 25, s. 60]
Section 180 — Common nuisance
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 commits a common…
Section 181
[Repealed, 2019, c. 25, s. 62]
Section 182 — Dead body
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 neglects, without…