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Criminal Code

Version of section 296 from 2003-01-01 to 2018-12-12:


Marginal note:Offence

  •  (1) Every one who publishes a blasphemous libel is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.

  • Marginal note:Question of fact

    (2) It is a question of fact whether or not any matter that is published is a blasphemous libel.

  • Marginal note:Saving

    (3) No person shall be convicted of an offence under this section for expressing in good faith and in decent language, or attempting to establish by argument used in good faith and conveyed in decent language, an opinion on a religious subject.

  • R.S., c. C-34, s. 260

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