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Versions of s. 232(2)

C-46 — Criminal Code · 2 versions · View current text

Historical text comes from the Justice Laws point-in-time corpus and is unofficial — not the official version.

  1. 2015-07-17 to present available View Source
    AConduct wrongfulof actthe victim that would constitute an indictable offence under this Act that is punishable by five or anmore insultyears of imprisonment and that is of such a nature as to be sufficient to deprive an ordinary person of the power of self-control is provocation for the purposes of this sectionsection, if the accused acted on it on the sudden and before there was time for histheir passion to cool.
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    Conduct of the victim that would constitute an indictable offence under this Act that is punishable by five or more years of imprisonment and that is of such a nature as to be sufficient to deprive an ordinary person of the power of self-control is provocation for the purposes of this section, if the accused acted on it on the sudden and before there was time for their passion to cool.

  2. 2003-01-01 to 2015-07-17 View Source

    A wrongful act or an insult that is of such a nature as to be sufficient to deprive an ordinary person of the power of self-control is provocation for the purposes of this section if the accused acted on it on the sudden and before there was time for his passion to cool.