Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46)
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Marginal note:Fraudulent manipulation of stock exchange transactions
382 Every person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction who, through the facility of a stock exchange, curb market or other market, with intent to create a false or misleading appearance of active public trading in a security or with intent to create a false or misleading appearance with respect to the market price of a security,
(a) effects a transaction in the security that involves no change in the beneficial ownership thereof,
(b) enters an order for the purchase of the security, knowing that an order of substantially the same size at substantially the same time and at substantially the same price for the sale of the security has been or will be entered by or for the same or different persons, or
(c) enters an order for the sale of the security, knowing that an order of substantially the same size at substantially the same time and at substantially the same price for the purchase of the security has been or will be entered by or for the same or different persons.
- R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 382
- 2004, c. 3, s. 4
- 2019, c. 25, s. 138
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