Criminal Code
Sections and provisions with full text and the judgments that cite each one.
Section 183 — Definitions
In this Part, authorization means an authorization to intercept a private communication given under subsection 184.2(3), section 186 or subsection 188(2); ( autorisation ) electro-magnetic, acoustic,…
Section 183.1 — Consent to interception
Where a private communication is originated by more than one person or is intended by the originator thereof to be received by more than one person, a consent to the interception thereof by any one…
Section 184 — Interception
Every person who, by means of any electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device, knowingly intercepts a private communication is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment…
Section 184.1 — Interception to prevent bodily harm
An agent of the state may intercept, by means of any electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device, a private communication if either the originator of the private communication or the…
Section 184.2 — Interception with consent
A person may intercept, by means of any electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device, a private communication where either the originator of the private communication or the person intended…
Section 184.3 — Application — telecommunication producing writing
A person who is permitted to make one of the following applications may submit their application by a means of telecommunication that produces a writing: an application for an authorization under…
Section 184.4 — Immediate interception — imminent harm
A police officer may intercept, by means of any electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device, a private communication if the police officer has reasonable grounds to believe that the…
Section 184.5 — Interception of radio-based telephone communications
Every person who intercepts, by means of any electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device, maliciously or for gain, a radio-based telephone communication, if the originator of the…
Section 184.6 — One application for authorization sufficient
For greater certainty, an application for an authorization under this Part may be made with respect to both private communications and radio-based telephone communications at the same time.
Section 185 — Application for authorization
An application for an authorization to be given under section 186 shall be made ex parte and in writing to a judge of a superior court of criminal jurisdiction or a judge as defined in section 552…
Section 186 — Judge to be satisfied
An authorization under this section may be given if the judge to whom the application is made is satisfied that it would be in the best interests of the administration of justice to do so; and that…
Section 186.1 — Time limitation in relation to criminal organizations and terrorism offences
Notwithstanding paragraphs 184.2(4)(e) and 186(4)(e) and subsection 186(7), an authorization or any renewal of an authorization may be valid for one or more periods specified in the authorization…
Section 187 — Manner in which application to be kept secret
All documents relating to an application made pursuant to any provision of this Part are confidential and, subject to subsection (1.1), shall be placed in a packet and sealed by the judge to whom the…
Section 188 — Applications to specially appointed judges
Notwithstanding section 185, an application made under that section for an authorization may be made ex parte to a judge of a superior court of criminal jurisdiction, or a judge as defined in section…
Section 188.1 — Execution in Canada
An authorization given under section 184.2, 186 or 188 may be executed at any place in Canada. Any peace officer who executes the authorization must have authority to act as a peace officer in the…
Section 188.2 — No civil or criminal liability
No person who acts in accordance with an authorization or under section 184.1 or 184.4 or who aids, in good faith, a person who he or she believes on reasonable grounds is acting in accordance with…
Section 189
[Repealed, 1993, c. 40, s. 10] The contents of a private communication that is obtained from an interception of the private communication pursuant to any provision of, or pursuant to an authorization…
Section 190 — Further particulars
Where an accused has been given notice pursuant to subsection 189(5), any judge of the court in which the trial of the accused is being or is to be held may at any time order that further particulars…
Section 191 — Possession, etc.
Every person who possesses, sells or purchases any electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device or any component of it knowing that its design renders it primarily useful for surreptitious…
Section 192 — Forfeiture
Where a person is convicted of an offence under section 184 or 191, any electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device by means of which the offence was committed or the possession of which…
Section 193 — Disclosure of information
If a private communication has been intercepted by means of an electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device without the consent, express or implied, of the originator of that communication…
Section 193.1 — Disclosure of information received from interception of radio-based telephone communications
Every person who knowingly uses or discloses a radio-based telephone communication or who knowingly discloses the existence of such a communication is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to…
Section 194 — Damages
Subject to subsection (2), a court that convicts an accused of an offence under section 184, 184.5, 193 or 193.1 may, on the application of a person aggrieved, at the time sentence is imposed, order…
Section 195 — Annual report
The Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness shall, as soon as possible after the end of each year, prepare a report relating to authorizations for which that Minister and agents…
Section 196 — Written notification to be given
The Attorney General of the province in which an application under subsection 185(1) was made or the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness if the application was made by or on behalf…
Section 196.1 — Written notice — interception in accordance with section 184.4
Subject to subsections (3) and (5), the Attorney General of the province in which a police officer intercepts a private communication under section 184.4 or, if the interception relates to an offence…
Section 197 — Definitions
In this Part, bet means a bet that is placed on any contingency or event that is to take place in or out of Canada, and without restricting the generality of the foregoing, includes a bet that is…
Section 198
[Repealed, 2018, c. 29, s. 16]
Section 199 — Warrant to search
A justice who is satisfied by information on oath that there are reasonable grounds to believe that an offence under section 201, 202, 203, 206 or 207 is being committed at any place within the…
Section 200
[Repealed, R.S., 1985, c. 27 (1st Supp.), s. 30]
Section 201 — Keeping gaming or betting house
Every person who keeps a common gaming house or common betting house is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years; or an offence punishable on…
Section 202 — Betting, pool-selling, book-making, etc.
Every one commits an offence who uses or knowingly allows a place under his control to be used for the purpose of recording or registering bets or selling a pool; imports, makes, buys, sells, rents,…
Section 203 — Placing bets on behalf of others
Every one who places or offers or agrees to place a bet on behalf of another person for a consideration paid or to be paid by or on behalf of that other person, engages in the business or practice of…
Section 204 — Exemption
Sections 201 and 202 do not apply to any person or association by reason of his or their becoming the custodian or depository of any money, property or valuable thing staked, to be paid to the winner…
Section 205
[Repealed, R.S., 1985, c. 52 (1st Supp.), s. 1]
Section 206 — Offence in relation to lotteries and games of chance
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 makes, prints,…
Section 207 — Permitted lotteries
Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this Part relating to gaming and betting, it is lawful for the government of a province, either alone or in conjunction with the government of another…
Section 207.1 — Exemption — lottery scheme on an international cruise ship
Despite any of the provisions of this Part relating to gaming and betting, it is lawful for the owner or operator of an international cruise ship, or their agent, to conduct, manage or operate and…
Section 208
[Repealed, R.S., 1985, c. 27 (1st Supp.), s. 32]
Section 209 — Cheating at play
Every person who, with intent to defraud any person, cheats while playing a game or in holding the stakes for a game or in betting is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a…
Section 210
[Repealed, 2019, c. 25, s. 73]
Section 211
[Repealed, 2019, c. 25, s. 73]
Section 212
[Repealed, 2014, c. 25, s. 13]
Section 213 — Stopping or impeding traffic
Everyone is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction who, in a public place or in any place open to public view, for the purpose of offering, providing or obtaining sexual services for…
Section 214 — Definitions
In this Part, abandon or expose includes a wilful omission to take charge of a child by a person who is under a legal duty to do so, and dealing with a child in a manner that is likely to leave that…
Section 215 — Duty of persons to provide necessaries
Every one is under a legal duty as a parent, foster parent, guardian or head of a family, to provide necessaries of life for a child under the age of sixteen years; to provide necessaries of life to…
Section 216 — Duty of persons undertaking acts dangerous to life
Every one who undertakes to administer surgical or medical treatment to another person or to do any other lawful act that may endanger the life of another person is, except in cases of necessity,…
Section 217 — Duty of persons undertaking acts
Every one who undertakes to do an act is under a legal duty to do it if an omission to do the act is or may be dangerous to life.
Section 217.1 — Duty of persons directing work
Every one who undertakes, or has the authority, to direct how another person does work or performs a task is under a legal duty to take reasonable steps to prevent bodily harm to that person, or any…
Section 218 — Abandoning child
Every one who unlawfully abandons or exposes a child who is under the age of ten years, so that its life is or is likely to be endangered or its health is or is likely to be permanently injured, is…