1 This Act may be cited as the Security of Information Act .
Marginal note: Definitions
includes design, pattern and specimen; ( modèle )
means arms, ammunition, implements or munitions of war, military stores or any articles deemed capable of being converted thereinto or made useful in the production thereof; ( munitions de guerre )
includes any act, omission or other thing that is punishable under this Act; ( infraction à la présente loi )
includes any office or employment in or under any department or branch of the government of Canada or of any province, and any office or employment in, on or under any board, commission, corporation or other body that is an agent of Her Majesty in right of Canada or any province; ( fonction relevant de Sa Majesté )
[Repealed, 2001, c. 41, s. 26]
includes any mode of representing any place or thing; ( croquis )
has the same meaning as in subsection 83.01(1) of the Criminal Code ; ( activité terroriste )
has the same meaning as in subsection 83.01(1) of the Criminal Code . ( groupe terroriste )
Marginal note: Prejudice to the safety or interest of the State
Marginal note: Wrongful communication, etc., of information
Marginal note: Unauthorized use of uniforms; falsification of reports, forgery, personation and false documents
Marginal note: Approaching, entering, etc., a prohibited place
6 Every person commits an offence who, for any purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State, approaches, inspects, passes over, is in the neighbourhood of or enters a prohibited place at the direction of, for the benefit of or in association with a foreign entity or a terrorist group.
Marginal note: Interference
7 Every person commits an offence who, in the vicinity of a prohibited place, obstructs, knowingly misleads or otherwise interferes with or impedes a peace officer or a member of Her Majesty’s forces engaged on guard, sentry, patrol or other similar duty in relation to the prohibited place.
Marginal note: Definitions
means information that the Government of Canada is taking measures to safeguard that reveals, or from which may be inferred,
Marginal note: Amending schedule
9 The Governor in Council may, by order, amend the schedule by adding or deleting the name of any current or former department, division, branch or office of the federal public administration, or any of its parts, that, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, has or had a mandate that is primarily related to security and intelligence matters, or by modifying any name set out in the schedule.
Marginal note: Designation — persons permanently bound to secrecy
Marginal note: Service
Marginal note: Certificate
Marginal note: Purported communication
Marginal note: Unauthorized communication of special operational information
Marginal note: Public interest defence
Marginal note: Communicating safeguarded information
Marginal note: Communicating special operational information
Marginal note: Breach of trust in respect of safeguarded information
Marginal note: Use of trade secret for the benefit of foreign economic entity
Marginal note: Threats or violence
Marginal note: Concealing person who carried out offence
Marginal note: Preparatory acts
Marginal note: Conspiracy, attempts, etc.
23 Every person commits an offence who conspires or attempts to commit, is an accessory after the fact in relation to or counsels in relation to an offence under this Act and is liable to the same punishment and to be proceeded against in the same manner as if he or she had committed the offence.
Marginal note: Attorney General’s consent
24 No prosecution shall be commenced for an offence against this Act without the consent of the Attorney General.
Marginal note: Jurisdiction
25 An offence against this Act may be tried, in any place in Canada, regardless of where in Canada the offence was committed.
Marginal note: Extraterritorial application
Marginal note: Punishment
27 Unless this Act provides otherwise, a person who commits an offence under this Act is guilty of
28 [Repealed, 2001, c. 41, s. 130]