Criminal Code

Sections and provisions with full text and the judgments that cite each one.

Section 219 — Criminal negligence

Every one is criminally negligent who in doing anything, or in omitting to do anything that it is his duty to do, shows wanton or reckless disregard for the lives or safety of other persons. For the…

Section 220 — Causing death by criminal negligence

Every person who by criminal negligence causes death to another person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable where a firearm is used in the commission of the offence, to imprisonment for life…

Section 221 — Causing bodily harm by criminal negligence

Every person who by criminal negligence causes bodily harm to another person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years; or an offence…

Section 222 — Homicide

A person commits homicide when, directly or indirectly, by any means, he causes the death of a human being. Homicide is culpable or not culpable. Homicide that is not culpable is not an offence.…

Section 223 — When child becomes human being

A child becomes a human being within the meaning of this Act when it has completely proceeded, in a living state, from the body of its mother, whether or not it has breathed; it has an independent…

Section 224 — Death that might have been prevented

Where a person, by an act or omission, does any thing that results in the death of a human being, he causes the death of that human being notwithstanding that death from that cause might have been…

Section 225 — Death from treatment of injury

Where a person causes to a human being a bodily injury that is of itself of a dangerous nature and from which death results, he causes the death of that human being notwithstanding that the immediate…

Section 226 — Acceleration of death

Where a person causes to a human being a bodily injury that results in death, he causes the death of that human being notwithstanding that the effect of the bodily injury is only to accelerate his…

Section 227 — Exemption for medical assistance in dying

No medical practitioner or nurse practitioner commits culpable homicide if they provide a person with medical assistance in dying in accordance with section 241.2. No person is a party to culpable…

Section 228 — Killing by influence on the mind

No person commits culpable homicide where he causes the death of a human being by any influence on the mind alone, or by any disorder or disease resulting from influence on the mind alone, but this…

Section 229 — Murder

Culpable homicide is murder where the person who causes the death of a human being means to cause his death, or means to cause him bodily harm that he knows is likely to cause his death, and is…

Repealed

Section 230

[Repealed, 2019, c. 25, s. 78]

Section 231 — Classification of murder

Murder is first degree murder or second degree murder. Murder is first degree murder when it is planned and deliberate. Without limiting the generality of subsection (2), murder is planned and…

Section 232 — Murder reduced to manslaughter

Culpable homicide that otherwise would be murder may be reduced to manslaughter if the person who committed it did so in the heat of passion caused by sudden provocation. Conduct of the victim that…

Section 233 — Infanticide

A female person commits infanticide when by a wilful act or omission she causes the death of her newly-born child, if at the time of the act or omission she is not fully recovered from the effects of…

Section 234 — Manslaughter

Culpable homicide that is not murder or infanticide is manslaughter.

Section 235 — Punishment for murder

Every one who commits first degree murder or second degree murder is guilty of an indictable offence and shall be sentenced to imprisonment for life. For the purposes of Part XXIII, the sentence of…

Section 236 — Manslaughter

Every person who commits manslaughter is guilty of an indictable offence and liable where a firearm is used in the commission of the offence, to imprisonment for life and to a minimum punishment of…

Section 237 — Punishment for infanticide

Every female person who commits infanticide is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years; or an offence punishable on summary conviction.

Section 238 — Killing unborn child in act of birth

Every one who causes the death, in the act of birth, of any child that has not become a human being, in such a manner that, if the child were a human being, he would be guilty of murder, is guilty of…

Section 239 — Attempt to commit murder

Every person who attempts by any means to commit murder is guilty of an indictable offence and liable if a restricted firearm or prohibited firearm is used in the commission of the offence or if any…

Section 240 — Accessory after fact to murder

Every one who is an accessory after the fact to murder is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for life.

Section 240.1 — Removal without informed consent

Everyone commits an offence who obtains an organ to be transplanted into their body or into the body of another person, knowing that the person from whom it was removed or a person lawfully…

Section 241 — Counselling or aiding suicide

Everyone is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 14 years who, whether suicide ensues or not, counsels a person to die by suicide or abets a person…

Section 241.1 — Definitions

The following definitions apply in this section and in sections 241.2 to 241.4. medical assistance in dying means the administering by a medical practitioner or nurse practitioner of a substance to a…

Section 241.2 — Eligibility for medical assistance in dying

A person may receive medical assistance in dying only if they meet all of the following criteria: they are eligible — or, but for any applicable minimum period of residence or waiting period, would…

Section 241.3 — Failure to comply with safeguards

A medical practitioner or nurse practitioner who, in providing medical assistance in dying, knowingly fails to comply, subject to subsection 241.2(3.2), with all of the requirements set out in…

Section 241.31 — Filing information — practitioners

Unless they are exempted under regulations made under subsection (3), a medical practitioner or nurse practitioner who carries out an assessment of whether a person meets the criteria set out in…

Section 241.4 — Forgery

Everyone commits an offence who commits forgery in relation to a request for medical assistance in dying. Everyone commits an offence who destroys a document that relates to a request for medical…

Section 242 — Neglect to obtain assistance in childbirth

A female person who, being pregnant and about to be delivered, with intent that the child shall not live or with intent to conceal the birth of the child, fails to make provision for reasonable…

Section 243 — Concealing body of child

Every person who in any manner disposes of the dead body of a child, with intent to conceal the fact that its mother has been delivered of it, whether the child died before, during or after birth, is…

Section 244 — Discharging firearm with intent

Every person commits an offence who discharges a firearm at a person with intent to wound, maim or disfigure, to endanger the life of or to prevent the arrest or detention of any person — whether or…

Section 244.1 — Causing bodily harm with intent — air gun or pistol

Every person who, with intent to wound, maim or disfigure any person, to endanger the life of any person, or to prevent the arrest or detention of any person, discharges an air or compressed gas gun…

Section 244.2 — Discharging firearm — recklessness

Every person commits an offence who intentionally discharges a firearm into or at a place, knowing that or being reckless as to whether another person is present in the place; or who intentionally…

Section 245 — Administering noxious thing

Every person who administers or causes to be administered to any other person or causes any other person to take poison or any other destructive or noxious thing is guilty of an indictable offence…

Section 246 — Overcoming resistance to commission of offence

Every one who, with intent to enable or assist himself or another person to commit an indictable offence, attempts, by any means, to choke, suffocate or strangle another person, or by any means…

Section 247 — Traps likely to cause bodily harm

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 with intent to cause…

Section 254.01

[Repealed, 2018, c. 21, s. 14]