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Versions of s. 371

C-46 — Criminal Code · 3 versions · View current text

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

  1. 2018-12-13 to present available View Source
    Everyone[Repealed, who,2018, withc. intent29, tos. defraud, causes a message to be sent as if it were sent under the authority of another person, knowing that it is not sent under that authority and with intent that it should be acted on as if it were, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years.42]
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    [Repealed, 2018, c. 29, s. 42]

  2. 2015-03-09 to 2018-12-13 View Source
    Every oneEveryone who, with intent to defraud, causes or procures a telegram, cablegram or radio message to be sent or delivered as beingif it were sent byunder the authority of another person, knowing that it is not sent byunder histhat authority and with intent that the messageit should be acted on as beingif sentit by his authority,were, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not exceedingmore than five years.
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    Everyone who, with intent to defraud, causes a message to be sent as if it were sent under the authority of another person, knowing that it is not sent under that authority and with intent that it should be acted on as if it were, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years.

  3. 2003-01-01 to 2015-03-09 View Source

    Every one who, with intent to defraud, causes or procures a telegram, cablegram or radio message to be sent or delivered as being sent by the authority of another person, knowing that it is not sent by his authority and with intent that the message should be acted on as being sent by his authority, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.