Criminal Code
Sections and provisions with full text and the judgments that cite each one.
Section 254.1
[Repealed, 2018, c. 21, s. 14]
Section 255
[Repealed, 2018, c. 21, s. 14]
Section 255.1
[Repealed, 2018, c. 21, s. 14]
Section 256
[Repealed, 2018, c. 21, s. 14]
Section 257
[Repealed, 2018, c. 21, s. 14]
Section 258
[Repealed, 2018, c. 21, s. 14]
Section 258.1
[Repealed, 2018, c. 21, s. 14]
Section 259
[Repealed, 2018, c. 21, s. 14]
Section 260
[Repealed, 2018, c. 21, s. 14]
Section 261
[Repealed, 2018, c. 21, s. 14]
Section 262 — Impeding attempt to save life
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 prevents or impedes or…
Section 263 — Duty to safeguard opening in ice
Every one who makes or causes to be made an opening in ice that is open to or frequented by the public is under a legal duty to guard it in a manner that is adequate to prevent persons from falling…
Section 264 — Criminal harassment
No person shall, without lawful authority and knowing that another person is harassed or recklessly as to whether the other person is harassed, engage in conduct referred to in subsection (2) that…
Section 264.1 — Uttering threats
Every one commits an offence who, in any manner, knowingly utters, conveys or causes any person to receive a threat to cause death or bodily harm to any person; to burn, destroy or damage real or…
Section 265 — Assault
A person commits an assault when without the consent of another person, he applies force intentionally to that other person, directly or indirectly; he attempts or threatens, by an act or a gesture,…
Section 266 — Assault
Every one who commits an assault is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years; or an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Section 267 — Assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm
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, in committing an…
Section 268 — Aggravated assault
Every one commits an aggravated assault who wounds, maims, disfigures or endangers the life of the complainant. Every one who commits an aggravated assault is guilty of an indictable offence and…
Section 269 — Unlawfully causing bodily harm
Every one who unlawfully causes bodily harm to any person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years; or an offence punishable on summary…
Section 269.01 — Aggravating circumstance — assault against a public transit operator
When a court imposes a sentence for an offence referred to in paragraph 264.1(1)(a) or any of sections 266 to 269, it shall consider as an aggravating circumstance the fact that the victim of the…
Section 269.1 — Torture
Every official, or every person acting at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of an official, who inflicts torture on any other person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable…
Section 270 — Assaulting a peace officer
Every one commits an offence who assaults a public officer or peace officer engaged in the execution of his duty or a person acting in aid of such an officer; assaults a person with intent to resist…
Section 270.01 — Assaulting peace officer with weapon or causing bodily harm
Everyone commits an offence who, in committing an assault referred to in section 270, carries, uses or threatens to use a weapon or an imitation of one; or causes bodily harm to the complainant.…
Section 270.02 — Aggravated assault of peace officer
Everyone who, in committing an assault referred to in section 270, wounds, maims, disfigures or endangers the life of the complainant is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for…
Section 270.03 — Sentences to be served consecutively
A sentence imposed on a person for an offence under subsection 270(1) or 270.01(1) or section 270.02 committed against a law enforcement officer, as defined in subsection 445.01(4), shall be served…
Section 270.1 — Disarming a peace officer
Every one commits an offence who, without the consent of a peace officer, takes or attempts to take a weapon that is in the possession of the peace officer when the peace officer is engaged in the…
Section 271 — Sexual assault
Everyone who commits a sexual assault is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years or, if the complainant is under the age of 16 years, to…
Section 272 — Sexual assault with a weapon, threats to a third party or causing bodily harm
Every person commits an offence who, in committing a sexual assault, carries, uses or threatens to use a weapon or an imitation of a weapon; threatens to cause bodily harm to a person other than the…
Section 273 — Aggravated sexual assault
Every one commits an aggravated sexual assault who, in committing a sexual assault, wounds, maims, disfigures or endangers the life of the complainant. Every person who commits an aggravated sexual…
Section 273.1 — Meaning of consent
Subject to subsection (2) and subsection 265(3), consent means, for the purposes of sections 271, 272 and 273, the voluntary agreement of the complainant to engage in the sexual activity in question.…
Section 273.2 — Where belief in consent not a defence
It is not a defence to a charge under section 271, 272 or 273 that the accused believed that the complainant consented to the activity that forms the subject-matter of the charge, where the accused’s…
Section 273.3 — Removal of child from Canada
No person shall do anything for the purpose of removing from Canada a person who is ordinarily resident in Canada and who is under the age of 16 years, with the intention that an act be committed…
Section 274 — Corroboration not required
If an accused is charged with an offence under section 151, 152, 153, 153.1, 155, 160, 170, 171, 172, 173, 271, 272, 273, 286.1, 286.2 or 286.3, no corroboration is required for a conviction and the…
Section 275 — Rules respecting recent complaint abrogated
The rules relating to evidence of recent complaint are hereby abrogated with respect to offences under sections 151, 152, 153, 153.1 and 155, subsections 160(2) and (3) and sections 170, 171, 172,…
Section 276 — Evidence of complainant’s sexual activity
In proceedings in respect of an offence under section 151, 152, 153, 153.1 or 155, subsection 160(2) or (3) or section 170, 171, 172, 173, 271, 272 or 273, evidence that the complainant has engaged…
Section 276.1
[Repealed, 2018, c. 29, s. 22]
Section 276.2
[Repealed, 2018, c. 29, s. 22]
Section 276.3
[Repealed, 2018, c. 29, s. 22]
Section 276.4
[Repealed, 2018, c. 29, s. 22]
Section 276.5
[Repealed, 2018, c. 29, s. 22]
Section 277 — Reputation evidence
In proceedings in respect of an offence under section 151, 152, 153, 153.1 or 155, subsection 160(2) or (3) or section 170, 171, 172, 173, 271, 272 or 273, evidence of sexual reputation, whether…
Section 278 — Spouse may be charged
A husband or wife may be charged with an offence under section 271, 272 or 273 in respect of his or her spouse, whether or not the spouses were living together at the time the activity that forms the…
Section 278.1 — Definition of record
For the purposes of sections 278.2 to 278.92, record means any form of record that contains personal information for which there is a reasonable expectation of privacy and includes medical,…
Section 278.2 — Production of record to accused
Except in accordance with sections 278.3 to 278.91, no record relating to a complainant or a witness shall be produced to an accused in any proceedings in respect of any of the following offences or…
Section 278.3 — Application for production
An accused who seeks production of a record referred to in subsection 278.2(1) must make an application to the judge before whom the accused is to be, or is being, tried. For greater certainty, an…
Section 278.4 — Hearing in camera
The judge shall hold a hearing in camera to determine whether to order the person who has possession or control of the record to produce it to the court for review by the judge. The person who has…
Section 278.5 — Judge may order production of record for review
The judge may order the person who has possession or control of the record to produce the record or part of the record to the court for review by the judge if, after the hearing referred to in…
Section 278.6 — Review of record by judge
Where the judge has ordered the production of the record or part of the record for review, the judge shall review it in the absence of the parties in order to determine whether the record or part of…
Section 278.7 — Judge may order production of record to accused
Where the judge is satisfied that the record or part of the record is likely relevant to an issue at trial or to the competence of a witness to testify and its production is necessary in the…
Section 278.8 — Reasons for decision
The judge shall provide reasons for ordering or refusing to order the production of the record or part of the record pursuant to subsection 278.5(1) or 278.7(1). The reasons referred to in subsection…