Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46)

Marginal note:Indictment

• 566 (1) The trial of an accused for an indictable offence, other than a trial before a provincial court judge, shall be on an indictment in writing setting forth the offence with which he is charged.

• Marginal note:Preferring indictment

  (2) Where an accused elects under section 536 or re-elects under section 561 to be tried by a judge without a jury, an indictment in Form 4 may be preferred.

• Marginal note:What counts may be included and who may prefer indictment

  (3) Section 574 and subsection 576(1) apply, with such modifications as the circumstances require, to the preferring of an indictment pursuant to subsection (2).