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Versions of s. 715.47(1)

C-46 — Criminal Code · 1 version · View current text

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

  1. 2026-07-18 to present available View Source

    A police officer must, if it is appropriate in the circumstances and does not pose a risk to the safety of the public, while taking into account the interests of the victim, of society and of the person alleged to have committed an offence and having regard to the purpose and principles set out in sections 715.45 and 715.46, consider, instead of proceeding with the laying of an information against the person alleged to have committed the offence,