Repealed Offences

This page was last substantively updated or reviewed January 2020. (Rev. # 79949)

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General Principles

A person can still be charged with a repealed offence as long as the offence is in existence at the time that the offence was committed.

List of Repealed Offences (1980 to present)

2019

• Vagrancy (179) [Repealed, 2019, c. 25, s. 60]
• Spreading False News (181) [Repealed, 2019, c. 25, s. 62]
• Keeping a Common Bawdy-house (Repealed Offence) (210 and 211) [Repealed, 2019, c. 25, s. 73]
• Constructive murder (230) [Repealed, 2019, c. 25, s. 78]
• Procuring an Abortion (287) [Repealed, 2019, c. 25, s. 111]

2018

• Alarming Her Majesty (s. 49)
• Dueling (s. 71)
• Advertising Reward (s. 143)
• Tied Sale (s. 165)
• Volatile Substance (s. 178)
• Flight from a Peace Officer (Repealed Offence) (s. 249.1): Repealed December 13, 2018
• Criminal negligence causing death (street racing) (s. 249.2): 2018, c. 21.
• Criminal negligence causing bodily harm (street racing) (s. 249.3): 2018, c. 21.
• Dangerous Operation of a Motor Vehicle (Repealed Offence) (s. 249)
• Failure to keep watch on person towed (s. 250)
• Unseaworthy vessel and unsafe aircraft (s. 251)
• Failure to Stop or Remain at Scene of Accident (Repealed Offence) (s. 252)
• Operation While Impaired by Alcohol or Drug and Refusal (Repealed Offence) (s. 253 and 254)
• Impaired Driving, Over 80 and Refusal Causing Bodily Harm or Death (Repealed Offence) (s. 255)
• Unauthorized Use of Bodily Sample (s. 258.1)
• Supplying Noxious Things (s. 288)
• Blasphemous Libel (s. 296)
• Pretending to Practise Witchcraft (s. 365)
• Refusing to Deliver Property (s. 337)
• Counterfeit Proclamation (s. 370)
• Message in a False Name (s. 371)
• Trader failing to keep accounts (s. 402)
• Personation in Examination (s. 404)
• Falsely Claiming Royal Warrant (s. 413)
• Issuing Trade stamps (s. 427)
• Importing or Exporting Drug Paraphernalia (Repealed Offence) (s. 462.2): Repealed on October 16, 2018 (2018, c. 16)

2014

• Procuring and Living on the Avails of Prostitution (Repealed Offence): repealed December 6th, 2014

1984 to 2000

• Sexual Intercourse with Step-Daughter (Repealed Offence): repealed in 1987
• Gross Indecency (Repealed Offence): repealed in 1987
• Sexual Intercourse with Female Under 14 (s. 269/301/146/153): repealed in 1987
• Seduction of Female Between 16 and 18 (s. 211/143/151/156): repealed in 1987
• Seduction of Female Passengers on Vessels (s. 184, 214, 146, 154, 159): repealed in 1987
• Seduction under promise of marriage (s. 182/212/144/152): repealed in 1987
• Seduction of Female Employees, Wards, Step-Daughters, etc. (s. 213, 145); repealed in 1987
• Communicating Venereal Diseases (s. 316A/307/239/253/289): repealed around 1985

Pre-1984

• Sexual Intercourse with Feeble-Minded Persons (s. 189/219/140/148): repealed around 1980
• Abduction of a Woman (s. 281/313/234): repealed around 1980
• Indecent Assault (Repealed Offence): repealed around 1980
• Rape (Repealed Offence): repealed in 1982

List of Repealed Offences (Pre-1980)

• Attempted Carnal Knowledge of Girl Under Fourteen (s. 302/270): repealed around 1953
• Abduction of Heiress (s.314/282): repealed around 1953
• Conspiracy to Defile (s. 188/218): repealed around 1953
• Seduction of Girls Under 16 (s. 181/211): repealed around 1919
• Whipping (s. 668): 1972, c. 13, s. 59.
• Capital Punishment (s. 669 to 681): 1974-75-76, c. 105, s. 21.

Other Repealed Laws

• Juvenile Delinquents Act

See Also

• Miscellaneous Repealed Offences
• Constance Backhouse list of offences