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Criminal Code

Version of section 418 from 2003-01-01 to 2004-03-30:


Marginal note:Selling defective stores to Her Majesty

  •  (1) Every one who knowingly sells or delivers defective stores to Her Majesty or commits fraud in connection with the sale, lease or delivery of stores to Her Majesty or the manufacture of stores for Her Majesty is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.

  • Marginal note:Offences by officers and employees of corporations

    (2) Every one who, being a director, an officer, an agent or an employee of a corporation that commits, by fraud, an offence under subsection (1),

    • (a) knowingly takes part in the fraud, or

    • (b) knows or has reason to suspect that the fraud is being committed or has been or is about to be committed and does not inform the responsible government, or a department thereof, of Her Majesty,

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

  • R.S., c. C-34, s. 376

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