Repealed Offences
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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A person can still be charged with a repealed offence as long as the offence is in existence at the time that the offence was committed.
List of Repealed Offences (1980 to present)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- Vagrancy (179) [Repealed, 2019, c. 25, s. 60]
- Spreading False News (181) [Repealed, 2019, c. 25, s. 62]
- Keeping a Common Bawdy-house (Repealed Offence) (210 and 211) [Repealed, 2019, c. 25, s. 73]
- Constructive murder (230) [Repealed, 2019, c. 25, s. 78]
- Procuring an Abortion (287) [Repealed, 2019, c. 25, s. 111]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- Flight from a Peace Officer (Repealed Offence) (s. 249.1): Repealed December 13, 2018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- Dangerous Operation of a Motor Vehicle (Repealed Offence) (s. 249)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- Failure to Stop or Remain at Scene of Accident (Repealed Offence) (s. 252)
- Operation While Impaired by Alcohol or Drug and Refusal (Repealed Offence) (s. 253 and 254)
- Impaired Driving, Over 80 and Refusal Causing Bodily Harm or Death (Repealed Offence) (s. 255)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- Importing or Exporting Drug Paraphernalia (Repealed Offence) (s. 462.2): Repealed on October 16, 2018 (2018, c. 16)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- Procuring and Living on the Avails of Prostitution (Repealed Offence): repealed December 6th, 2014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- Sexual Intercourse with Step-Daughter (Repealed Offence): repealed in 1987
- Gross Indecency (Repealed Offence): repealed in 1987
- Sexual Intercourse with Female Under 14 (s. 269/301/146/153): repealed in 1987
- Seduction of Female Between 16 and 18 (s. 211/143/151/156): repealed in 1987
- Seduction of Female Passengers on Vessels (s. 184, 214, 146, 154, 159): repealed in 1987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.