Criminal Code

Marginal note:Definitions

• 467.1 (1) The following definitions apply in this Act.

  criminal organization

  organisation criminelle

  criminal organization means a group, however organized, that

  • (a) is composed of three or more persons in or outside Canada; and

  • (b) has as one of its main purposes or main activities the facilitation or commission of one or more serious offences that, if committed, would likely result in the direct or indirect receipt of a material benefit, including a financial benefit, by the group or by any of the persons who constitute the group.

  It does not include a group of persons that forms randomly for the immediate commission of a single offence. (organisation criminelle)

  serious offence

  infraction grave

  serious offence means an indictable offence under this or any other Act of Parliament for which the maximum punishment is imprisonment for five years or more, or another offence that is prescribed by regulation. (infraction grave)

• Marginal note:Facilitation

  (2) For the purposes of this section and section 467.11, facilitation of an offence does not require knowledge of a particular offence the commission of which is facilitated, or that an offence actually be committed.

• Marginal note:Commission of offence

  (3) In this section and in sections 467.11 to 467.13, committing an offence means being a party to it or counselling any person to be a party to it.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (4) The Governor in Council may make regulations prescribing offences that are included in the definition serious offence in subsection (1).