Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46)

Marginal note:Motor vehicle theft

• 333.1 (1) Everyone who commits theft is, if the property stolen is a motor vehicle, guilty of an offence and liable

  • (a) on proceedings by way of indictment, to imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years, and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of six months in the case of a third or subsequent offence under this subsection; or

  • (b) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years less a day.

• Marginal note:Subsequent offences

  (2) For the purpose of determining whether a convicted person has committed a third or subsequent offence, an offence for which the person was previously convicted is considered to be an earlier offence whether it was prosecuted by indictment or by way of summary conviction proceedings.

• Marginal note:Motor vehicle theft when violence used, threatened or attempted

  (3) Everyone who commits theft in the commission of which violence against a person is used, threatened or attempted is, if the property stolen is a motor vehicle, guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years.

• Marginal note:Motor vehicle theft for criminal organization

  (4) Everyone who commits theft for the benefit of, at the direction of or in association with a criminal organization is, if the property stolen is a motor vehicle, guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years.