Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46)

Marginal note:Confession or admission of accused

• 542 (1) Nothing in this Act prevents a prosecutor giving in evidence at a preliminary inquiry any admission, confession or statement made at any time by the accused that by law is admissible against him.

• Marginal note:Restriction of publication of reports of preliminary inquiry

  (2) Every one who publishes in any document, or broadcasts or transmits in any way, a report that any admission or confession was tendered in evidence at a preliminary inquiry or a report of the nature of such admission or confession so tendered in evidence unless

  • (a) the accused has been discharged, or

  • (b) if the accused has been ordered to stand trial, the trial has ended,

  is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

• (3) [Repealed, 2005, c. 32, s. 19]