Criminal Code

Marginal note:Making, having or dealing in instruments for forging or falsifying credit cards

• 342.01 (1) Every person who, without lawful justification or excuse,

  • (a) makes or repairs,

  • (b) buys or sells,

  • (c) exports from or imports into Canada, or

  • (d) possesses

  any instrument, device, apparatus, material or thing that the person knows has been used or knows is adapted or intended for use in forging or falsifying credit cards is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

• Marginal note:Forfeiture

  (2) Where a person is convicted of an offence under subsection (1), any instrument, device, apparatus, material or thing in relation to which the offence was committed or the possession of which constituted the offence may, in addition to any other punishment that may be imposed, be ordered forfeited to Her Majesty, whereupon it may be disposed of as the Attorney General directs.

• Marginal note:Limitation

  (3) No order of forfeiture may be made under subsection (2) in respect of any thing that is the property of a person who was not a party to the offence under subsection (1).