Pocket Criminal Code 2008

• Criminal Code
• Canada Evidence Act
• Canadian Bill of Rights
• Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
• Controlled Drugs and Substances Act
• Criminal Records Act
• DNA Identification Act
• Extradition Act
• Firearms Act
• Identification of Criminals Act
• Interpretation Act
• Motor Vehicle Transport Act, 1987
• Secure Electronic Signature Regulations
• Sex Offender Information Registration Act
• Youth Criminal Justice Act

• An Act to amend the Criminal Code (street racing) and to make a consequential amendment to the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, S.C. 2006, c. 14, came into force on December 14, 2006. This enactment amends the Criminal Code to create an offence of street racing based on dangerous driving and criminal negligence offences. This enactment increases, in street racing situations, the maximum punishments for some offences and also provides for minimum prohibitions on driving that increase on a second and subsequent offence. This enactment also makes a consequential amendment to the Corrections and Conditional Release Act.
• Section 246 of the Federal Accountability Act, S.C. 2006, c.9, came into force on March 1, 2007 (SI/2007-15), amending s. 750 of the Criminal Code dealing with the ability of people to contract with the federal government if they had been previously convicted under certain sections of the criminal code.
• An Act to amend the National Defence Act, the Criminal Code, the Sex Offender Information Registration Act and the Criminal Records Act, S.C. 2006, c. 5 received royal assent on March 29, 2007 (not in force at date off publication). It makes certain amendments to the Criminal Code and the Sex Offender Information Registration Act to enhance the administration and enforcement of the current registration scheme for sex offender information.
• An Act to amend the Criminal Code (criminal interest rate), S.C. 2007, c. 9, came into force on May 3, 2007. This amends the criminal code by exempting persons from the application of section 347 of the Act in respect of agreements for small, short-term loans. The exemption applies to those who are licences or otherwise permitted to enter into such agreements by designated provinces that have legislative measures limiting the total cost of these loans.
• Regulations Establishing a List of Entities was amended by SOR/2006-257, in force October 23, 2006, adding Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s Faction of the Hezb-e Islami, the Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (HIG). Also, by SI/2006-133, an Order Recommending that Each Entity Listed as of July 23, 2006, in the Regulations Establishing a List of Entities Remain a Listed Entity, each entity listed as of July 23, 2006, in the Regulations Establishing a List of Entities remained a listed entity.