List of Criminal Code Amendments (2020 to present)

This page was last substantively updated or reviewed June 2025. (Rev. # 99526)

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2024, c. 33

2024, c. 33 (Bill C-40)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
Miscarriage of Justice Review Commission Act (David and Joyce Milgaard’s Law)	2024, c. 33 (Bill C-40)	2024-12-17		final draft text	Full Legislative History
Summary
Amended Code Sec.

2024, c. 23

2024, c. 23 (Bill C-291)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make consequential amendments to other Acts (child sexual abuse and exploitation material)	2024, c. 23 (Bill C-291)	10th October, 2024	10th October, 2025	final draft text	Full Legislative History
Summary
This enactment amends the Criminal Code to replace the term “child pornography” with “child sexual abuse and exploitation material” and makes consequential amendments to other Acts.
Amended Code Sec.

2024, c. 22

2024, c. 22 (Bill S-205)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make consequential amendments to another Act (interim release and domestic violence recognizance orders)	2024, c. 22 (Bill S-205)	October 10, 2024	April 8, 2025	final draft text	Full Legislative History
Summary
Amended Code Sec.

2024, c. 17

2024, c. 17 (Bill C-69)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
Budget Implementation Act, 2024, No. 1	2024, c. 17 (Bill C-69)			final draft text	Full Legislative History
Summary
Division 33 of Part 4 amends the Criminal Code to broaden the criminal interest rate offence to prohibit a person from offering to enter into an agreement or arrangement to receive interest at a criminal rate and from advertising an offer to enter into an agreement or arrangement that provides for the receipt of interest at a criminal rate. It also repeals the provision that requires the consent of the Attorney General prior to commencing proceedings related to the offence. ... Subdivision B of Division 34 amends the Income Tax Act and the Excise Tax Act to allow provincial or superior court judges, a judge of a superior court of criminal jurisdiction or a judge as defined in section 552 of the Criminal Code to grant on application by a Canada Revenue Agency official the authorization to use device or investigative technique, or procedure or otherwise do any thing provided in a warrant, for purposes of tax investigations. Subdivision C of Division 34 amends the Criminal Code to provide for an order to keep an account open or active and for a production order to require the production of documents or data that are in a person’s possession or control on dates specified in an order that fall within the 60-day period after the day on which it is made. Division 35 of Part 4 amends the Criminal Code to, among other things, (a) create new offences in respect of motor vehicle theft, including an offence concerning the possession or the distribution of an electronic device suitable for committing theft of a motor vehicle, and in respect of criminal organizations; and (b) add, as an aggravating factor, evidence that an offender involved a person under the age of 18 years in the commission of an offence.
Amended Code Sec.

2024, c. 16

2024, c. 16 (Bill C-70)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
Countering Foreign Interference Act	2024, c. 16 (Bill C-70)			final draft text	Full Legislative History
Summary
It also amends the Criminal Code to, among other things, broaden the scope of the sabotage offence to include certain acts done in relation to essential infrastructures and ensure that certain provisions respecting the interception of “private communications” as defined in that Act apply to certain offences in the Foreign Interference and Security of Information Act. Finally, it makes consequential amendments to other Acts. ... It also adds references to international relations, national defence and national security in a provision of the Criminal Code that relates to the protection of information, as well as references to international relations and national defence in certain provisions of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act that equally relate to the protection of information.
Amended Code Sec.

2024, c. 15

2024, c. 15 (Bill C-59)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2023	2024, c. 15 (Bill C-59)	2024-06-20		final draft text	Full Legislative History
Summary
Subdivision B of Division 8 of Part 5 amends the Criminal Code to, among other things, (a) in certain circumstances, provide that a court may infer the knowledge or belief or recklessness required in relation to the offence of laundering proceeds of crime and specify that it is not necessary for the prosecutor to prove that the accused knew, believed they knew or was reckless as to the specific nature of the designated offence; (b) remove, in the context of the special warrants and restraint order in relation to proceeds of crime, the requirement for the Attorney General to give an undertaking, as well as permit a judge to attach conditions to a special warrant for search and seizure of property that is proceeds of crime; and (c) modify certain provisions relating to the production order for financial data to include elements specific to accounts associated with digital assets.
Amended Code Sec.
amends s. 83.‍13(11), ... 462.48(2)(c) ...

2024, c. 1

2024, c. 1 (Bill C-62)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
An Act to amend An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying), No. 2	2024, c. 1 (Bill C-62)	29th February, 2024		final draft text	Full Legislative History
Summary
makes amendments to An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying). It adds 241.‍2(2.1) and then removes it March 17, 2027.
Amended Code Sec.

2023, c. 32

2023, c. 32 (Bill C-21)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
An Act to amend certain Acts and to make certain consequential amendments (firearms)	2023, c. 32 (Bill C-21)	December 15, 2023	December 15, 2023	final draft text	Full Legislative History
Summary
"This enactment amends the Criminal Code to, among other things, (a) increase, from 10 to 14 years, the maximum penalty of imprisonment for indictable weapons offences in sections 95, 96, 99, 100 and 103; (b) establish a regime that would permit any person to apply for an emergency prohibition order or an emergency limitations on access order and allow the judge to protect the security of the person or of anyone known to them; (c) deem certain firearms to be prohibited devices for the purpose of specified provisions; (d) create new offences for possessing and making available certain types of computer data that pertain to firearms and prohibited devices and for altering a cartridge magazine to exceed its lawful capacity; (e) include, for interception of private communications purposes, sections 92 and 95 in the definition of “offence” in section 183; (f) authorize employees of certain federal entities who are responsible for security to be considered as public officers for the purpose of section 117.‍07; and (g) include certain firearm parts to offences regarding firearms."
Amended Code Sec.

2023, c. 30

2023, c. 30 (Bill C-48)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (bail reform)	2023, c. 30 (Bill C-48)		January 4, 2024	draft text	Full Legislative History
Summary
"This enactment amends the Criminal Code to, among other things, (a) create a reverse onus provision for any person charged with a serious offence involving violence and the use of a weapon who has been convicted, within the last five years, of a serious offence involving violence and the use of a weapon; (b) add certain firearms offences to the existing reverse onus provisions; (c) expand the reverse onus provision for offences involving intimate partner violence to ensure that it applies to an accused person who has been previously discharged for such an offence; and (d) require the court to consider if an accused person has any previous convictions involving violence and to include in the record a statement that the safety and security of the community was considered. This enactment also makes further clarifications and provides for a parliamentary review of the provisions it enacts or amends to commence on the fifth anniversary of the day on which it receives royal assent, or as soon as feasible after that anniversary."
Amended Code Sec.

2023, c. 28

2023, c. 28 (Bill S-12)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Sex Offender Information Registration Act and the International Transfer of Offenders Act	2023, c. 28 (Bill S-12)	October 26, 2023	October 26, 2023 (except for s. 35 on OIC)	draft text	Full Legislative History Charter briefing
Summary
"This enactment amends the Criminal Code, the Sex Offender Information Registration Act and the International Transfer of Offenders Act to, among other things, (a) require compliance with the Sex Offender Information Registration Act for persons who are convicted of an offence of a sexual nature against a child and for persons who have been convicted on separate occasions of two or more offences of a sexual nature; (b) require other persons who are convicted of, or receive a verdict of not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder for, an offence of a sexual nature to comply with that Act unless a court is satisfied that doing so would have no connection to the purposes of that Act or that the impact on the person of doing so would be grossly disproportionate to those purposes; (c) provide that an order to comply with that Act as a result of convictions, or verdicts of not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder, for two or more offences of a sexual nature that are dealt with in the same proceeding — or an obligation to comply with that Act as a result of convictions, or such verdicts, for two or more offences of a sexual nature — does not apply for life if a court is satisfied that the offences do not demonstrate a pattern of behaviour showing that the person presents an increased risk of reoffending by committing such an offence; (d) authorize a peace officer to obtain a warrant to arrest a person who has contravened any of sections 4 to 5.‍1 of that Act and bring them to a registration centre to remedy that contravention; and (e) clarify the obligations in section 6 of that Act respecting the notice that sex offenders who plan to absent themselves from their residence must provide. The enactment also amends the Criminal Code to, among other things, codify the process for modifying and revoking publication bans, and add a requirement for sentencing courts to inquire into whether the victim of an offence would like to receive information about the administration of the offender’s sentence and, in the affirmative, provide the Correctional Service of Canada with the victim’s contact information."
Amended Code Sec.

Bill C-28

(Bill C-28)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (self-induced extreme intoxication)	(Bill C-28)			draft text	Full Legislative History
Summary
"This enactment amends the Criminal Code to provide for criminal liability for violent crimes of general intent committed by a person while in a state of negligent self-induced extreme intoxication."
Amended Code Sec.

2023, c. 14

2023, c. 14 (Bill C-41)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make consequential amendments to other Acts	2023, c. 14 (Bill C-41)	June 20, 2023	June 20, 2023	final text	{{{8}}}
Summary
"This enactment amends the Criminal Code in order to create a regime under which the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness may authorize an eligible person to carry out, in a geographic area that is controlled by a terrorist group and for certain purposes, activities that otherwise would be prohibited under paragraph 83.03(b) of that Act"
Amended Code Sec.
CC: 83.03, 83.031, 83.032, 83.033, 83.034, 83.035, 83.036, 83.037, 83.0392, 83.039, 83.0391 and 83.0392

2022, c. 18

2022, c. 18 (Bill S-223)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (trafficking in human organs)	2022, c. 18 (Bill S-223)	December 15, 2022	December 15, 2022	draft text	Full Legislative History
Summary
"This enactment amends the Criminal Code to create new offences in relation to trafficking in human organs. It also amends the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to provide that a permanent resident or foreign national is inadmissible to Canada if the appropriate minister is of the opinion that they have engaged in any activities relating to trafficking in human organs."
Amended Code Sec.
CC: 7(4.2), (4.3), 240.‍1

2022, c. 17

2022, c. 17 (Bill S-4)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Identification of Criminals Act and to make related amendments to other Acts (COVID-19 response and other measures)	2022, c. 17 (Bill S-4)	December 15, 2022	January 14, 2023	final text	Full Legislative History
Summary
"The enactment makes amendments to the Criminal Code and the Identification of Criminals Act to correct minor technical errors and includes transitional provisions on the application of the amendments. It also makes related amendments to other Acts. The enactment also provides for one or more independent reviews on the use of remote proceedings in criminal justice matters. Lastly, the enactment also provides for a parliamentary review of the provisions enacted or amended by this enactment and of the use of remote proceedings in criminal justice matters to commence at the start of the fifth year following the day on which it receives royal assent."
Amended Code Sec.
CC: 1, 117.04(3), 117.‍05(1), 145(2), 184.‍3, 185(4), 187(1.‍1), 187(3), 188.‍1, 320.‍29(1), 320.‍29(2) and (3), 320.‍29(5), 395(2), 462.‍32(4)[F], 462.‍32(4)‍(a), 462.‍32(4)‍(b) and (c) [F], 482.‍1(1)‍(b), 485(1.‍1), 485.‍1, 487(1)‍(e), 487.‍01(7), 487.‍02, 487.‍04 [(c)‍(iv.‍4)], 487.‍05(3), 487.‍092(4), 487.‍093, 487.‍1, 487.‍2, 488, 488.‍01(2), 489.‍1, 492(1), 500(3), 501(4), 502.‍1(1), 502.‍1(4) and (5), 509(5), 515(2.‍2), 515.‍01, 529.‍5, 537(1)‍(j), (j.1), and (k), 555(1) and (1.‍1), 555(3)‍(a), 606(5), 650(1) to (1.‍2), 669.‍2(5), 673 [b], 680(1), 688(2.‍1), 714.‍1(b), 715.‍21, 715.‍221, 715.‍222, 715.‍23, 715.‍231, 715.‍232, 715.‍233, 715.‍234, 715.‍235, 715.‍24, 715.‍241, 715.‍242, 715.‍243, 715.‍25(1), 715.‍25(2), 715.‍25(2)‍(b), 715.‍25(3) and (4), 715.‍27, 742.‍6(1)‍(f), 742.‍6, 774.‍1, 795, 800(2)[F], 800(2.‍1), 817(2)[F], 847, Form 5.‍04 [b], Forms 5.‍1 and 5.‍2, Forms 6.‍1, Form 6.2, Item 3 of Form 10, Form 11.1, Form 32 [m][F]. CDSA: 11

2022, c. 15

2022, c. 15 (Bill C-5)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act	2022, c. 15 (Bill C-5)	November 17, 2022	November 17, 2022	draft text	Full Legislative History
Summary
"This enactment amends the Criminal Code and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to, among other things, repeal certain mandatory minimum penalties, allow for a greater use of conditional sentences and establish diversion measures for simple drug possession offences."
Amended Code Sec.
84(5), 85(3), 92(3), 95(2)(a), 96(2)(a), 99(3), 100(3), 103(2.1), 121.1(4)(a), 121.1(5), 244(2)(b), 244.2(3)(b), 344(1)(a.1), 346(1.1)(a.1), 742.1(c), and 742.1(e) to (f). CDSA 5(3)‍(a), 6(3)‍(a) and (a.‍1), 7(2)‍(a) and (a.‍1), 7(3), 8, 10(2), 10(5), 10.‍1, 10.‍2, 10.‍3, 10.‍4, 10.‍5, 10.‍6, 10.‍7.

2022, c. 11

2022, c. 11 (Bill C-28)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (self-induced extreme intoxication)	2022, c. 11 (Bill C-28)	June 23, 2022			full profile history Prohibition on Intoxication Defences
Summary
Amended Code Sec.

2022, c. 10

2022, c. 10 (Bill C-X)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
	2022, c. 10 (Bill C-X)
Summary
Amended Code Sec.

2022, c. 5

2022, c. 5 (Bill C-X)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
)	2022, c. 5 (Bill C-X)
Summary
Amended Code Sec.

2021, c. 27

2021, c. 27 (Bill C-3)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Canada Labour Code	2021, c. 27 (Bill C-3)	December 17, 2021		full text	Full Legislative History: Commons Committee Evidence
Summary
Amended Code Sec.

2021, c. 24

2021, c. 24 (Bill C-4)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (conversion therapy)	2021, c. 24 (Bill C-4)	December 8, 2021	January 7, 2022	full text	Backgrounder Full Legislative History: Commons Committee Evidence: None Senate Committee Evidence: None
Summary
Creates criminal offence for engaging in any form of conversion therapy.
Amended Code Sec.
s. 164(1), (3) to (5), (7), (8), 164.1(1), (5), (7), "offence" in s. 183, 273.‍3(1)‍(c), 320.‍101, 320.‍102, 320.‍103, 320.‍104, 320.‍105.

2021, c. 20

2021, c. 20 (Bill C-218)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
Safe and Regulated Sports Betting Act	2021, c. 20 (Bill C-218)	June 29, 2021	August 27, 2021 [PC 2021-0874]	Full Text of Act	Full Legislative History
Summary
"This enactment amends paragraph 207(4)(b) of the Criminal Code to make it lawful for the government of a province, or a person or entity licensed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council of that province, to conduct and manage a lottery scheme in the province that involves betting on a race — other than a horse-race — or fight, or on a single sport event or athletic contest."
Amended Code Sec.
s. 207

2021, c. 8

2021, c. 8 (Bill C-3)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
An Act to amend the Judges Act and the Criminal Code	2021, c. 8 (Bill C-3)	May 6, 2021		first reading text	full profile history hansard backgrounder
Summary
"...it amends the Criminal Code to require that judges provide reasons for decisions in sexual assault proceedings."
Amended Code Sec.
s. 278.‍98.

2021, c. 2

2021, c. 2 (Bill C-7)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying)	2021, c. 2 (Bill C-7)	March 17, 2021		text first reading text C-7 history	full profile history hansard backgrounder
Summary
"(a) repeal the provision that requires a person’s natural death be reasonably foreseeable in order for them to be eligible for medical assistance in dying; (b) specify that persons whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness are not eligible for medical assistance in dying; (c) create two sets of safeguards that must be respected before medical assistance in dying may be provided to a person, the application of which depends on whether the person’s natural death is reasonably foreseeable; (d) permit medical assistance in dying to be provided to a person who has been found eligible to receive it, whose natural death is reasonably foreseeable and who has lost the capacity to consent before medical assistance in dying is provided, on the basis of a prior agreement they entered into with the medical practitioner or nurse practitioner; and (e) permit medical assistance in dying to be provided to a person who has lost the capacity to consent to it as a result of the self-administration of a substance that was provided to them under the provisions governing medical assistance in dying in order to cause their own death."
Amended Code Sec.
s. 241.‍2(2), (3), (3.1), (3.2), (3.3), (3.4), (3.5), (5.1), (6), 241.‍3, 241.‍31.

2020, c. 1

2020, c. 1 (Bill C-4)
Act Name	Citation	Royal Assent	In force	Amendment Text	Debates & Govt Docs
Canada–United States–Mexico Agreement Implementation Act	2020, c. 1 (Bill C-4)	March 13, 2020		CanLII text	full profile history hansard backgrounder
Summary
Creates criminal offence for obtains and communicates trade secrets.
Amended Code Sec.
s. 2.3(1)(a), 391, s. 1 of Part XXII.‍1 schedule.