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Criminal Code

Version of section 487.0195 from 2015-03-09 to 2024-09-17:


Marginal note:For greater certainty

  •  (1) For greater certainty, no preservation demand, preservation order or production order is necessary for a peace officer or public officer to ask a person to voluntarily preserve data that the person is not prohibited by law from preserving or to voluntarily provide a document to the officer that the person is not prohibited by law from disclosing.

  • Marginal note:No civil or criminal liability

    (2) A person who preserves data or provides a document in those circumstances does not incur any criminal or civil liability for doing so.

  • 2014, c. 31, s. 20

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