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Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 2
mblems of the Geneva Conventions in conformity with international law; (iii) intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, as long as they are entitled to the protection given to civilians or civilian objects under the international law of armed conflict; (iv) intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected, provided they are not military objectives; (v) pillaging a town or place, even when taken by assault; (vi) committing rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, as defined in article 7, paragraph 2(f), enforced sterilization, and any other form of sexual violence also constituting a serious violation of article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions; (vii) conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifteen years into armed forces or groups or using them to participate actively in hostilities; (viii) ordering the displacement of the civilian population for reasons related to the conflict, unless the security of the civilians involved or imperative military reasons so demand; (ix) killing or wounding treacherously a combatant adversary; (x) declaring that no quarter will be given; (xi) subjecting persons who are in the power of another party to the conflict to physical mutilation or to medical or scientific experiments of any kind which are neither justified by the medical, dental or hospital treatment of the person concerned nor carried out in his or her interest, and which cause death to or seriously endanger the health of such person or persons; (xii) destroying or seizing the property of an adversary unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of the conflict; (f) paragraph 2(e) applies to armed conflicts not of an international character and thus does not apply to situations of internal disturbances and tensions, such as riots, isolated and sporadic acts of violence or other acts of a similar nature. It applies to armed conflicts that take place in the territory of a State when there is protracted armed conflict between governmental authorities and organized armed groups or between such groups.
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (a)
(a) grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or property protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention: (i) wilful killing; (ii) torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments; (iii) wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health; (iv) extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly; (v) compelling a prisoner of war or other protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile Power; (vi) wilfully depriving a prisoner of war or other protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial; (vii) unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement; (viii) taking of hostages.
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (ii)
(ii) torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (iii)
(iii) wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (iv)
(iv) extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (v)
(v) compelling a prisoner of war or other protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile Power;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (vi)
(vi) wilfully depriving a prisoner of war or other protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (vii)
(vii) unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (b)
lict, provided that such weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare are the subject of a comprehensive prohibition and are included in an annex to this Statute, by an amendment in accordance with the relevant provisions set forth in articles 121 and 123; (xxi) committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment; (xxii) committing rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, as defined in article 7, paragraph 2(f), enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence also constituting a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions; (xxiii) utilizing the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operations; (xxiv) intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport, and personnel using the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions in conformity with international law; (xxv) intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including wilfully impeding relief supplies as provided for under the Geneva Conventions; (xxvi) conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifteen years into the national armed forces or using them to participate actively in hostilities.
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (i)
(i) intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (ii)
(ii) intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, that is, objects which are not military objectives;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (iii)
(iii) intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, as long as they are entitled to the protection given to civilians or civilian objects under the international law of armed conflict;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (iv)
(iv) intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects or widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (v)
(v) attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (vi)
(vi) killing or wounding a combatant who, having laid down his arms or having no longer means of defence, has surrendered at discretion;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (vii)
(vii) making improper use of a flag of truce, of the flag or of the military insignia and uniform of the enemy or of the United Nations, as well as of the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions, resulting in death or serious personal injury;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (viii)
(viii) the transfer, directly or indirectly, by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies, or the deportation or transfer of all or parts of the population of the occupied territory within or outside this territory;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (ix)
(ix) intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected, provided they are not military objectives;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (x)
(x) subjecting persons who are in the power of an adverse party to physical mutilation or to medical or scientific experiments of any kind which are neither justified by the medical, dental or hospital treatment of the person concerned nor carried out in his or her interest, and which cause death to or seriously endanger the health of such person or persons;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (xi)
(xi) killing or wounding treacherously individuals belonging to the hostile nation or army;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (xii)
(xii) declaring that no quarter will be given;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (xiii)
(xiii) destroying or seizing the enemy’s property unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of war;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (xiv)
(xiv) declaring abolished, suspended or inadmissible in a court of law the rights and actions of the nationals of the hostile party;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (xv)
(xv) compelling the nationals of the hostile party to take part in the operations of war directed against their own country, even if they were in the belligerent’s service before the commencement of the war;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (xvi)
(xvi) pillaging a town or place, even when taken by assault;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (xvii)
(xvii) employing poison or poisoned weapons;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (xviii)
(xviii) employing asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all analogous liquids, materials or devices;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (xix)
(xix) employing bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover the core or is pierced with incisions;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (xx)
(xx) employing weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare which are of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering or which are inherently indiscriminate in violation of the international law of armed conflict, provided that such weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare are the subject of a comprehensive prohibition and are included in an annex to this Statute, by an amendment in accordance with the relevant provisions set forth in articles 121 and 123;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (xxi)
(xxi) committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (xxii)
(xxii) committing rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, as defined in article 7, paragraph 2(f), enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence also constituting a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (xxiii)
(xxiii) utilizing the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operations;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (xxiv)
(xxiv) intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport, and personnel using the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions in conformity with international law;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (xxv)
(xxv) intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including wilfully impeding relief supplies as provided for under the Geneva Conventions;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (xxvi)
(xxvi) conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifteen years into the national armed forces or using them to participate actively in hostilities.
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (c)
(c) in the case of an armed conflict not of an international character, serious violations of article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts committed against persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention or any other cause: (i) violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture; (ii) committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment; (iii) taking of hostages; (iv) the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgement pronounced by a regularly constituted court, affording all judicial guarantees which are generally recognized as indispensable.
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (i)
(i) violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (ii)
(ii) committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (iv)
(iv) the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgement pronounced by a regularly constituted court, affording all judicial guarantees which are generally recognized as indispensable.
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (d)
(d) paragraph 2(c) applies to armed conflicts not of an international character and thus does not apply to situations of internal disturbances and tensions, such as riots, isolated and sporadic acts of violence or other acts of a similar nature.
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (e)
(e) other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in armed conflicts not of an international character, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts: (i) intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities; (ii) intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport, and personnel using the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions in conformity with international law; (iii) intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, as long as they are entitled to the protection given to civilians or civilian objects under the international law of armed conflict; (iv) intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected, provided they are not military objectives; (v) pillaging a town or place, even when taken by assault; (vi) committing rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, as defined in article 7, paragraph 2(f), enforced sterilization, and any other form of sexual violence also constituting a serious violation of article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions; (vii) conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifteen years into armed forces or groups or using them to participate actively in hostilities; (viii) ordering the displacement of the civilian population for reasons related to the conflict, unless the security of the civilians involved or imperative military reasons so demand; (ix) killing or wounding treacherously a combatant adversary; (x) declaring that no quarter will be given; (xi) subjecting persons who are in the power of another party to the conflict to physical mutilation or to medical or scientific experiments of any kind which are neither justified by the medical, dental or hospital treatment of the person concerned nor carried out in his or her interest, and which cause death to or seriously endanger the health of such person or persons; (xii) destroying or seizing the property of an adversary unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of the conflict;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (ii)
(ii) intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport, and personnel using the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions in conformity with international law;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (iv)
(iv) intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected, provided they are not military objectives;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (v)
(v) pillaging a town or place, even when taken by assault;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (vi)
(vi) committing rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, as defined in article 7, paragraph 2(f), enforced sterilization, and any other form of sexual violence also constituting a serious violation of article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (vii)
(vii) conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifteen years into armed forces or groups or using them to participate actively in hostilities;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (viii)
(viii) ordering the displacement of the civilian population for reasons related to the conflict, unless the security of the civilians involved or imperative military reasons so demand;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (ix)
(ix) killing or wounding treacherously a combatant adversary;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (x)
(x) declaring that no quarter will be given;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (xi)
(xi) subjecting persons who are in the power of another party to the conflict to physical mutilation or to medical or scientific experiments of any kind which are neither justified by the medical, dental or hospital treatment of the person concerned nor carried out in his or her interest, and which cause death to or seriously endanger the health of such person or persons;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (xii)
(xii) destroying or seizing the property of an adversary unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of the conflict;
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act — C-45.9 (f)
(f) paragraph 2(e) applies to armed conflicts not of an international character and thus does not apply to situations of internal disturbances and tensions, such as riots, isolated and sporadic acts of violence or other acts of a similar nature. It applies to armed conflicts that take place in the territory of a State when there is protracted armed conflict between governmental authorities and organized armed groups or between such groups.
Criminal Code — C-46 1
Short title 1 This Act may be cited as the Criminal Code . R.S., c. C-34, s. 1
Criminal Code — C-46 (a)
Act includes (a) an Act of Parliament, (b) an Act of the legislature of the former Province of Canada, (c) an Act of the legislature of a province, and (d) an Act or ordinance of the legislature of a province, territory or place in force at the time that province, territory or place became a province of Canada; ( loi )
Criminal Code — C-46
appearance notice means a notice in Form 9 issued by a peace officer; ( citation à comparaître )
Criminal Code — C-46 (a)
associated personnel means persons who are (a) assigned by a government or an intergovernmental organization with the agreement of the competent organ of the United Nations, (b) engaged by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, by a specialized agency of the United Nations or by the International Atomic Energy Agency, or (c) deployed by a humanitarian non-governmental organization or agency under an agreement with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, by a specialized agency of the United Nations or by the International Atomic Energy Agency, to carry out activities in support of the fulfilment of the mandate of a United Nations operation; ( personnel associé )
Criminal Code — C-46 (a)
Attorney General (a) with respect to proceedings to which this Act applies, means the Attorney General or Solicitor General of the province in which those proceedings are taken and includes his or her lawful deputy or, if those proceedings are referred to in subsection 2.3(1), the Attorney General of Canada or the Attorney General or Solicitor General of the province in which those proceedings are taken and includes the lawful deputy of any of them, (b) means the Attorney General of Canada and includes his or her lawful deputy with respect to (i) Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, or (ii) proceedings commenced at the instance of the Government of Canada and conducted by or on behalf of that Government in respect of an offence under any Act of Parliament — other than this Act or the Canada Elections Act — or any regulation made under such an Act, and (c) means the Director of Public Prosecutions appointed under subsection 3(1) of the Director of Public Prosecutions Act with respect to proceedings in relation to an offence under the Canada Elections Act ; ( procureur général )
Criminal Code — C-46
audioconference means any means of telecommunication that allows the judge or justice and any individual to communicate orally in a proceeding; ( audioconférence )
Criminal Code — C-46 (a)
bank-note includes any negotiable instrument (a) issued by or on behalf of a person carrying on the business of banking in or out of Canada, and (b) issued under the authority of Parliament or under the lawful authority of the government of a state other than Canada, intended to be used as money or as the equivalent of money, immediately on issue or at some time subsequent thereto, and includes bank bills and bank post bills; ( billet de banque )
Criminal Code — C-46
bodily harm means any hurt or injury to a person that interferes with the health or comfort of the person and that is more than merely transient or trifling in nature; ( lésions corporelles )
Criminal Code — C-46
Canadian Forces means the armed forces of Her Majesty raised by Canada; ( Forces canadiennes )
Criminal Code — C-46
cattle means neat cattle or an animal of the bovine species by whatever technical or familiar name it is known, and includes any horse, mule, ass, pig, sheep or goat; ( bétail )
Criminal Code — C-46
clerk of the court includes a person, by whatever name or title he may be designated, who from time to time performs the duties of a clerk of the court; ( greffier du tribunal )
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common-law partner , in relation to an individual, means a person who is cohabiting with the individual in a conjugal relationship, having so cohabited for a period of at least one year; ( conjoint de fait )
Criminal Code — C-46
complainant means the victim of an alleged offence; ( plaignant )
Criminal Code — C-46
counsel means a barrister or solicitor, in respect of the matters or things that barristers and solicitors, respectively, are authorized by the law of a province to do or perform in relation to legal proceedings; ( avocat )
Criminal Code — C-46
count means a charge in an information or indictment; ( chef d’accusation )
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court of appeal means, in all provinces, the Court of Appeal. ( cour d’appel )
Criminal Code — C-46 (a)
court of criminal jurisdiction means (a) a court of general or quarter sessions of the peace, when presided over by a superior court judge, (a.1) in the Province of Quebec, the Court of Quebec, the municipal court of Montreal and the municipal court of Quebec, (b) a provincial court judge or judge acting under Part XIX, and (c) in the Province of Ontario, the Ontario Court of Justice; ( cour de juridiction criminelle )
Criminal Code — C-46
criminal organization has the same meaning as in subsection 467.1(1); ( organisation criminelle )