Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46)

Marginal note:Obstructing or violence to or arrest of officiating clergyman

• 176. (1) Every one who

  • (a) by threats or force, unlawfully obstructs or prevents or endeavours to obstruct or prevent a clergyman or minister from celebrating divine service or performing any other function in connection with his calling, or

  • (b) knowing that a clergyman or minister is about to perform, is on his way to perform or is returning from the performance of any of the duties or functions mentioned in paragraph (a)

    • (i) assaults or offers any violence to him, or

    • (ii) arrests him on a civil process, or under the pretence of executing a civil process,

  is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.

• Marginal note:Disturbing religious worship or certain meetings

  (2) Every one who wilfully disturbs or interrupts an assemblage of persons met for religious worship or for a moral, social or benevolent purpose is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

• Marginal note:Idem

  (3) Every one who, at or near a meeting referred to in subsection (2), wilfully does anything that disturbs the order or solemnity of the meeting is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

Marginal note:Trespassing at night

177. Every one who, without lawful excuse, the proof of which lies on him, loiters or prowls at night on the property of another person near a dwelling-house situated on that property is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

Marginal note:Offensive volatile substance

178. Every one other than a peace officer engaged in the discharge of his duty who has in his possession in a public place or who deposits, throws or injects or causes to be deposited, thrown or injected in, into or near any place,

• (a) an offensive volatile substance that is likely to alarm, inconvenience, discommode or cause discomfort to any person or to cause damage to property, or

• (b) a stink or stench bomb or device from which any substance mentioned in paragraph (a) is or is capable of being liberated,

is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

Marginal note:Vagrancy

• 179. (1) Every one commits vagrancy who

  • (a) supports himself in whole or in part by gaming or crime and has no lawful profession or calling by which to maintain himself; or

  • (b) having at any time been convicted of an offence under section 151, 152 or 153, subsection 160(3) or 173(2) or section 271, 272 or 273, or of an offence under a provision referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition “serious personal injury offence” in section 687 of the Criminal Code, chapter C-34 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1970, as it read before January 4, 1983, is found loitering in or near a school ground, playground, public park or bathing area.

• Marginal note:Punishment

  (2) Every one who commits vagrancy is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.