Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46)

Marginal note:Mailing obscene matter

• 168 (1) Every one commits an offence who makes use of the mails for the purpose of transmitting or delivering anything that is obscene, indecent, immoral or scurrilous.

• Marginal note:Exceptions

  (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who

  • (a) prints or publishes any matter for use in connection with any judicial proceedings or communicates it to persons who are concerned in the proceedings;

  • (b) prints or publishes a notice or report under the direction of a court; or

  • (c) prints or publishes any matter

    • (i) in a volume or part of a genuine series of law reports that does not form part of any other publication and consists solely of reports of proceedings in courts of law, or

    • (ii) in a publication of a technical character that is intended, in good faith, for circulation among members of the legal or medical profession.