The Pocket Criminal Code 2009 contains the full text of
the Criminal Code and thirteen other related statutes:
- Criminal Code
- Canada Evidence Act
- Canadian Bill of Rights
- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Controlled Drugs and Substances Act
- Criminal Code Regulations (Selected)
- Criminal Records Act
- DNA Identification Act
- Extradition Act
- Firearms Act
- Identification of Criminals Act
- Interpretation Act
- Motor Vehicle Transport Act, 1987
- Secure Electronic Signature Regulations
- Sex Offender Information Registration Act
- Youth Criminal Justice Act
New to the 2009 edition:
- Tackling of Violent Crime Act:
- S.C. 2008, c. 6 received Royal Assent on February 28,
2008. Sections 2 - 17, 28 - 38, 54 and 58 of the Act came into force on May 1,
2008. They include amendments to the Code which: create new offences of
breaking and entering to steal a firearm and robbery to steal a firearm;
introduce escalating mandatory minimum sentences for serious offences involving
firearms; make serious offences involving firearms subject to the reverse onus
bail provisions of s. 515(6); raise the age of consent to sexual activity from
14 to 16 years, and revise the text of the sexual offences involving children
and related prohibitions and recognizances accordingly. Section 58 of the Act
consequentially amends references in the schedule to the Criminal Records Act
to sexual offences involving children to reflect the new age of consent.
- Section 18 - 27 and 39 - 53 of the Act came into force
July 1, 2008. They include amendments to the Code which relate to crimes such
as: detection and investigation of drug-impaired driving; increasing the
maximum sentence for such offences; making "driving over" causing death and
"driving over" causing bodily harm strictly indictable offences, and
introducing parallel penalties for failing and refusing to comply with a demand
for bodily substances in circumstances involving death and bodily harm.
- The majority of the provisions of An Act to amend certain
Acts in relation to DNA Identification, S.C. 2007, c. 22 and An Act to amend
the Criminal Code, the DNA Identification Act and the National Defence Act,
S.C. 2005, c. 25 came into force January 1, 2008. Together they overhaul the
forensic DNA analysis provisions of the Code.
The Pocket Criminal Code also includes a comprehensive
Index, a Table of Contents, a Concordance for each statute, and the Forms of
Charges from The Police Officer’s Manual for the main Criminal Code
offences and for offences under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, the
Firearms Act and the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
The Federal
statutes and regulations in this edition are current to May 1, 2008, except
where otherwise noted.
Also available:
Other
editions of the Criminal Code
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