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Versions of s. 372(1)

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. 2015-03-09 to present available View Source
    EveryEveryone onecommits an offence who, with intent to injure or alarm anya person, conveys information that they know is false, or causes orsuch procuresinformation to be conveyed by letter, telegram, telephone, cable, radioletter or otherwiseany information that he knows is false is guiltymeans of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.telecommunication.
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    Everyone commits an offence who, with intent to injure or alarm a person, conveys information that they know is false, or causes such information to be conveyed by letter or any means of telecommunication.

  2. 2003-01-01 to 2015-03-09 View Source

    Every one who, with intent to injure or alarm any person, conveys or causes or procures to be conveyed by letter, telegram, telephone, cable, radio or otherwise information that he knows is false is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.