2010 Pocket Criminal Code

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 offenses of
    breaking and entering to steal a firearm and robbery to steal a firearm;
    introduce escalating mandatory minimum sentences for serious offenses involving
    firearms; make serious offenses 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 offenses 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 offenses 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 offenses; making "driving over" causing death and
    "driving over" causing bodily harm strictly indictable offenses, 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 Defense 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
offenses and for offenses 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.