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Versions of s. 496

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. 2019-12-18 to present available View Source
    Where, by virtue of subsection 495(2),If a peace officer doeshas reasonable grounds to believe that a person has failed to comply with a summons, appearance notice, undertaking or release order or to attend court as required and that the failure did not arrestcause a person,victim hephysical mayor emotional harm, property damage or economic loss, the peace officer may, without laying a charge, issue an appearance notice to the person ifto theappear offenceat isa judicial referral hearing under section 523.1.
    Full text

    If a peace officer has reasonable grounds to believe that a person has failed to comply with a summons, appearance notice, undertaking or release order or to attend court as required and that the failure did not cause a victim physical or emotional harm, property damage or economic loss, the peace officer may, without laying a charge, issue an appearance notice to the person to appear at a judicial referral hearing under section 523.1.

  2. 2003-01-01 to 2019-12-18 View Source

    Where, by virtue of subsection 495(2), a peace officer does not arrest a person, he may issue an appearance notice to the person if the offence is