Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46)

Marginal note:In what cases justice may receive information

504 Any one who, on reasonable grounds, believes that a person has committed an indictable offence may lay an information in writing and under oath before a justice, and the justice shall receive the information, where it is alleged

• (a) that the person has committed, anywhere, an indictable offence that may be tried in the province in which the justice resides, and that the person

  • (i) is or is believed to be, or

  • (ii) resides or is believed to reside,

  within the territorial jurisdiction of the justice;

• (b) that the person, wherever he may be, has committed an indictable offence within the territorial jurisdiction of the justice;

• (c) that the person has, anywhere, unlawfully received property that was unlawfully obtained within the territorial jurisdiction of the justice; or

• (d) that the person has in his possession stolen property within the territorial jurisdiction of the justice.