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Summary means quick and simple. Summary conviction cases are heard
by a Judge in provincial court. A person charged with a summary
conviction offence is usually not arrested but given a notice to
appear in court at a later date. The accused must be charged within
six months of the offence.
Summary offences are generally less serious charges than indictable
offences. Many offences can be prosecuted as either a summary
offence or an indictable offence — the Crown prosecutor makes this
choice. These offences are called hybrid offences. The Crown
prosecutors prosecute the less serious of these as summary
conviction offences, but they may choose to treat them as more
serious indictable offences.
Summary Conviction Offences
Charge |
Section of Criminal Code |
|---|---|
| Assisting a deserter | Section 83 |
| Possession of a weapon in public | Section 89 |
| Impersonating a peace officer | Section 130 |
| Advising reward/immunity | Section 143 |
| Disorderly conduct | Section 173 |
| Indecent acts, public or private | Section 173 |
| Public exposure | Section 173 (2) |
| Public nudity | Section 174 |
| Causing disturbance, indecent exhibition, loitering, etc. | Section 175 |
| Disturbing religious worship or certain meetings | Section 176 (2) |
| Trespassing at night | Section 177 |
| Offensive volatile substance | Section 178 |
| Vagrancy | Section 179 |
| Keeping a gaming or betting house | Section 201 |
| Being found at or being a landlord or tenant of a common bawdyhouse | Section 210 |
| Being found at or being a landlord or tenant of a common bawdyhouse | Section 210 |
| Transporting a person to a bawdyhouse | Section 211 |
| Procuring or soliciting prostitution (accused stopping vehicles or pedestrians) | Section 213 |
| Unauthorized use of a bodily substance | Section 258.1 |
| Theft valued under $5,000 | Section 322 & 334 |
| Taking a motor vehicle or vessel or found therein without consent | Section 335 |
| Fraudulently obtaining food, beverage or accommodation | Section 364 |
| Pretending to practise witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or conjuration, undertaking to tell fortunes | Section 365 |
| Indecent telephone calls | Section 372 (2) |
| Harassing telephone calls | Section 372 (3) |
| Fraudulently obtaining transportation | Section 393 (3) |
| Falsifying employment record (punching time clock etc.) | Section 398 |
| Obtaining carriage by false billing | Section 401 |
| Impersonation at examination | Section 404 |
| Falsely claiming royal warrant | Section 413 |
| Unlawful use of military uniforms or certificates | Section 419 |
| Interfering with the saving of a wrecked vessel | Section 438 (2) |
| Issuing trade stamps | Section 427 (1) |
| Giving trade stamps to a purchaser of goods | Section 427 (2) |
| Interfering with a marine signal | Section 439 |
| Interfering with boundary lines | Section 442 |
| Manufacture or possession of slugs and tokens | Section 454 |
| Defacing current coins | Section 456 |
| Refusal to employ for reason of membership in union | Section 425 |
| Manufacture, promotion, sale of likeness of currency (counterfeiting) | Section 457 |
| Corrupting Morals | Section 163 & 169 |
| Tied Sale | Section 165 & 169 |
| Immoral theatrical performance | Section 167 & 169 |
| Mailing obscene matter | Section 168 & 169 |
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