Criminal Code

Marginal note:Prohibition order

• 162.2 (1) When an offender is convicted, or is discharged on the conditions prescribed in a probation order under section 730, of an offence referred to in subsection 162.1(1), the court that sentences or discharges the offender, in addition to any other punishment that may be imposed for that offence or any other condition prescribed in the order of discharge, may make, subject to the conditions or exemptions that the court directs, an order prohibiting the offender from using the Internet or other digital network, unless the offender does so in accordance with conditions set by the court.

• Marginal note:Duration of prohibition

  (2) The prohibition may be for any period that the court considers appropriate, including any period to which the offender is sentenced to imprisonment.

• Marginal note:Court may vary order

  (3) A court that makes an order of prohibition or, if the court is for any reason unable to act, another court of equivalent jurisdiction in the same province may, on application of the offender or the prosecutor, require the offender to appear before it at any time and, after hearing the parties, that court may vary the conditions prescribed in the order if, in the opinion of the court, the variation is desirable because of changed circumstances after the conditions were prescribed.

• Marginal note:Offence

  (4) Every person who is bound by an order of prohibition and who does not comply with the order is guilty of

  • (a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than four years; or

  • (b) an offence punishable on summary conviction and is liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 18 months.