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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

TITLE I.

INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS.

PART I.

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PRELIMINARY.

1. Short title ....

2. Commencement of Act.........

3. Explanation of terms

4. Meaning of expressions in other Acts retained.

5. Offence against statutes of England, Great Britain or the United

Kingdom

6. Consequences of committing offence...

PART II.

MATTERS OF JUSTIFICATION OR EXCUSE.

7. General rule under common law

8. General rule under this Act

9. Children under seven......

10. Children between seven and fourteen.

11. Insanity...

12. Compulsion by threats...

13. Compulsion of wife....

14. Ignorance of the law....

15. Execution of sentence...

16. Execution of process.

17. Execution of warrants.......

18. Execution of erroneous sentence or process..

19. Sentence or process without jurisdiction.....

20. Arresting the wrong person

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21. Irregular warrant or process.....

22. Arrest by peace officer in case of certain offences....

23. Persons assisting peace officer.............

24. Arrest of persons found committing certain offences.

25. Arrest after commission of certain offences....

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26. Arrest of person believed to be committing certain offences by

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30. Statutory power of arrest.....

31. Force used in executing sentence or process or in arrest..

32. Duty of persons arresting........

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33. Peace officer preventing escape from arrest for certain offences... 41

34. Private person preventing escape from arrest for certain offences..

35. Preventing escape from arrest in other cases.

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36. Preventing escape or rescue after arrest for certain offences.

37. Preventing escape or rescue after arrest in other cases......

38. Preventing breach of the peace...

39. Prevention by peace officers of breach of the peace..

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27. Arrest by peace officer of person found committing offence.....
28. Arrest of person found committing any offence at night
29. Arrest during flight.....

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45. Self-defence against unprovoked assault....

46. Self-defence against provoked assault.....

47. Prevention of insult....

48. Defence of movable property against trespasser...

49. Defence of movable property with claim of right....

50. Defence of movable property without claim of right

51. Defence of dwelling-house...

52. Defence of dwelling-house at night

53. Defence of real property...

54. Assertion of right to house or land.

55. Discipline of minors....

56. Discipline on ships...

57. Surgical operations.

58. Excess. ..

59. Consent to death....

60. Obedience to de facto law...

40. Suppression of riot by magistrates.........

41. Suppression of riot by persons acting under lawful orders...
42. Suppression of riot by persons without orders.......
43. Protection of persons subject to military law.
44. Prevention of certain offences......

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61. Parties to offences.....

62. Offence committed other than the offence intended.

63. Accessory after the fact...........

64. Attempts....

PARTIES TO THE COMMISSION OF OFFENCES.

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TITLE II.

OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER, INTERNAL AND

EXTERNAL.

PART IV.

TREASON AND OTHER OFFENCES AGAINST THE QUEEN'S AUTHORITY

AND PERSON.

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68. Levying war by subjects of a state at peace with Her Majesty—

subjects assisting...

69. Treasonable offences..

70. Conspiracy to intimidate a legislature..

71. Assaults on the Queen.

72. Inciting to mutiny

73. Enticing soldiers or sailors to desert...

74. Resisting execution of warrant for arrest of deserters................... ....

75. Enticing militiamen or members of the North-west mounted

police force to desert....

PART V.

UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLIES, RIOTS, BREACHES OF THE PEACE.

79. Definition of unlawful assembly..

80. Definition of riot.........

76. Interpretation......

77. Unlawfully obtaining and communicating official information...

78. Communicating information acquired by holding office........

81. Punishment of unlawful assembly

82. Punishment of riot ......

83. Reading the Riot Act.......

84. Duty of justice if rioters do not disperse...

85. Riotous destruction of buildings.

86. Riotous damage to buildings......

87. Unlawful drilling...

88. Being unlawfully drilled.......

89. Forcible entry and detainer...

90. Affray.....

91. Challenge to fight a duel......

92. Prize-fighting defined

93. Challenging to fight a prize-fight, &c.....

94. Engaging as principal in a prize-fight.

95. Attending or promoting a prize-fight......

96. Leaving Canada to engage in a prize-fight.

97. Where the fight is not a prize-fight-discharge or fine....

98. Inciting Indians to riotous acts.........

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PART VI.

UNLAWFUL USE AND POSSESSION OF EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCES AND

OFFENSIVE WEAPONS.-SALE OF LIQUORS.

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99. Causing dangerous explosions..

100. Doing anything, or possessing explosive substances, with intent

to cause dangerous explosions.........

101. Unlawfully making or possessing explosive substances...........

102. Having possession of arms for purposes dangerous to the public

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103. Two or more persons openly carrying dangerous weapons so as

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104. Smugglers carrying offensive weapons......

105 Carrying a pistol or air-gun without justification..........

106. Selling pistol or air-gun to minor......

107. Having weapons on person when arrested....

108. Having weapons on the person with intent to injure any person..

109. Pointing any firearm at any person......

110. Carrying offensive weapons about the person.

111. Carrying sheath-knives in seaports.....

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112. Exception as to soldiers, &c.........

113. Refusing to deliver offensive weapon to a justice.

114. Coming armed within two miles of public meeting.........

115. Lying in wait for persons returning from public meeting..

116. Sale of arms in the North-west Territories......

117. Possessing weapons near public works.......

118. Sale, &c., of liquors near public works......

119. Intoxicating liquors on board Her Majesty's ships

SEDITIOUS OFFENCES.

124. Punishment of seditious offences..

125. Libels on foreign sovereigns..

126. Spreading false news...

129. Piracy with violence......

130. Not fighting pirates...

120. Oaths to commit certain offences....

121. Other unlawful oaths....

122. Compulsion in administering and taking oaths.......

123. Seditious offences defined....

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PIRACY.

127. Piracy by the law of nations.....

128. Piratical acts.......

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