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Versions of s. 481(1)

E-2.01 — Canada Elections Act · 3 versions · View current text

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

  1. 2026-06-18 to present available View Source
    Every person or entity is guilty of an offence that, during an election period,that distributes, transmits or publishes any material, regardless of its form,material that purports to be made, distributed, transmitted or published by or under the authority of the Chief Electoral Officer, the Commissioner or a returning officer, political party, candidatenomination orcontestant, candidate, potential candidate, prospective candidate or leadership contestant, if
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    Every person or entity is guilty of an offence that distributes, transmits or publishes any material that purports to be made, distributed, transmitted or published by or under the authority of the Chief Electoral Officer, the Commissioner or a returning officer, political party, nomination contestant, candidate, potential candidate, prospective candidate or leadership contestant, if

  2. 2019-06-13 to 2026-06-18 View Source
    Every person or entity is guilty of an offence who,that, during an election period, directlydistributes, transmits or indirectlypublishes offersany material, regardless of its form, that purports to be made, distributed, transmitted or published by or under the authority of the Chief Electoral Officer, or a bribereturning toofficer, influencepolitical anparty, elector to votecandidate or refrainprospective fromcandidate voting or to vote or refrain from voting for a particular candidate.if
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    Every person or entity is guilty of an offence that, during an election period, distributes, transmits or publishes any material, regardless of its form, that purports to be made, distributed, transmitted or published by or under the authority of the Chief Electoral Officer, or a returning officer, political party, candidate or prospective candidate if

  3. 2003-01-01 to 2019-06-13 View Source

    Every person is guilty of an offence who, during an election period, directly or indirectly offers a bribe to influence an elector to vote or refrain from voting or to vote or refrain from voting for a particular candidate.