Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46)

Marginal note:To whom pardon may be granted

• 748 (1) Her Majesty may extend the royal mercy to a person who is sentenced to imprisonment under the authority of an Act of Parliament, even if the person is imprisoned for failure to pay money to another person.

• Marginal note:Free or conditional pardon

  (2) The Governor in Council may grant a free pardon or a conditional pardon to any person who has been convicted of an offence.

• Marginal note:Effect of free pardon

  (3) Where the Governor in Council grants a free pardon to a person, that person shall be deemed thereafter never to have committed the offence in respect of which the pardon is granted.

• Marginal note:Punishment for subsequent offence not affected

  (4) No free pardon or conditional pardon prevents or mitigates the punishment to which the person might otherwise be lawfully sentenced on a subsequent conviction for an offence other than that for which the pardon was granted.