Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act

Marginal note:Offences — harassment, obstruction, destroying documents etc.

• 50.1 (1) No person shall

  • (a) harass, intimidate or threaten any person with the intent to compel that other person to abstain from making a complaint under Part VII or VII.2;

  • (b) harass, intimidate or threaten

    • (i) an individual who makes a complaint under Part VII or VII.2,

    • (ii) an individual at whom the conduct that is the subject of a complaint made under any of those Parts was directed,

    • (iii) a person whom the person has reasonable grounds to believe will be questioned or summoned by the Commission when it deals with a complaint made under any of those Parts, or

    • (iv) a person who is carrying out any power, duty or function under any of Parts VI to VII.2;

  • (c) wilfully obstruct a person who is carrying out any power, duty or function under any of Parts VI to VII.2, or knowingly make any false or misleading statement or knowingly provide false or misleading information to that person;

  • (d) destroy, mutilate, alter, falsify or conceal a document or thing, or make a false document or thing, knowing that the document or thing is likely to be relevant to an investigation of, or hearing to inquire into, a complaint made under Part VII or VII.2 or to a review under any of those Parts; or

  • (e) direct, counsel or cause, in any manner, any person to do anything mentioned in any of paragraphs (a) to (d), or propose, in any manner, to any person that they do anything mentioned in any of those paragraphs.

• Marginal note:Punishment

  (2) Every person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is guilty of

  • (a) an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years; or

  • (b) an offence punishable on summary conviction and liable to a fine of not more than $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term of not more than six months, or to both.