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Versions of s. 503(4)

C-46 — Criminal Code · 2 versions · View current text

Historical text comes from the Justice Laws point-in-time corpus and is unofficial — not the official version.

  1. 2019-12-18 to present available View Source
    A peace officer or an officer in charge having the custody of a person who has been arrested without warrant as a person about to commit an indictable offence shall release that person unconditionally as soon as practicable after hethe officer is satisfied that the continued detention of that person in custody is no longer necessary in order to prevent thethat commissionperson byfrom him ofcommitting an indictable offence.
    Full text

    A peace officer having the custody of a person who has been arrested without warrant as a person about to commit an indictable offence shall release that person as soon as practicable after the officer is satisfied that the continued detention of that person is no longer necessary in order to prevent that person from committing an indictable offence.

  2. 2003-01-01 to 2019-12-18 View Source

    A peace officer or an officer in charge having the custody of a person who has been arrested without warrant as a person about to commit an indictable offence shall release that person unconditionally as soon as practicable after he is satisfied that the continued detention of that person in custody is no longer necessary in order to prevent the commission by him of an indictable offence.