Bill C-30

1st Session, 41st Parliament,

60-61 Elizabeth II, 2011-2012

house of commons of canada

BILL C-30

An Act to enact the Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications Act and to amend the Criminal Code and other Acts

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

SHORT TITLE

1. This Act may be cited as the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act.

PART 1

INVESTIGATING AND PREVENTING CRIMINAL ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS ACT

Enactment of Act

2. The Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications Act, whose text is as follows and whose Schedules 1 and 2 are set out in the schedule to this Act, is hereby enacted:

An Act regulating telecommunications facilities to support investigations

SHORT TITLE

1. This Act may be cited as the Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications Act.

INTERPRETATION

2. (1) The following definitions apply in this Act.

“authorized”, in relation to a person, means having authority, under the Criminal Code or the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act, to intercept communications.

“communication” means a communication effected by a means of telecommunication and includes any related telecommunications data or other ancillary information.

“intercept” includes listen to, record or acquire a communication or acquire the substance, meaning or purport of the communication.

“Minister” means the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness.

“person” includes a partnership, an unincorporated organization, a government, a government agency and any other person or entity that acts in the name of or for the benefit of another.

“prescribed” means prescribed by the regulations.

“telecommunications data” means data relating to the telecommunications functions of dialling, routing, addressing or signalling that identifies or purports to identify the origin, type, direction, date, time, duration, size, destination or termination of a telecommunication generated or received by means of a telecommunications facility or the type of telecommunications service used. It also means any transmission data that may be obtained under subsection 492.2(1) of the Criminal Code.

“telecommunications facility” means any facility, apparatus or other thing that is used for telecommunications or for any operation directly connected with telecommunications.

“telecommunications service” means a service, or a feature of a service, that is provided by means of telecommunications facilities, whether the provider owns, leases or has any other interest in or right respecting the telecommunications facilities and any related equipment used to provide the service.

“telecommunications service provider” means a person that, independently or as part of a group or association, provides telecommunications services.

“transmission apparatus” means any apparatus of a prescribed class whose principal functions are one or more of the following:

(a) the switching or routing of communications;

(b) the input, capture, storage, organization, modification, retrieval, output or other processing of communications;

(c) the control of the speed, code, protocol, content, format, switching or routing or similar aspects of communications; or

(d) any other function that is similar to one described in paragraphs (a) to (c).

(2) Nothing in this Act derogates from any power in the Criminal Code, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act or Part V.1 of the National Defence Act to intercept communications or to request that telecommunications service providers assist in such interceptions.

PURPOSE

3. The purpose of this Act is to ensure that telecommunications service providers have the capability to enable national security and law enforcement agencies to exercise their authority to intercept communications and to require telecommunications service providers to provide subscriber and other information, without unreasonably impairing the privacy of individ-uals, the provision of telecommunications services to Canadians or the competitiveness of the Canadian telecommunications industry.

HER MAJESTY

4. This Act is binding on Her Majesty in right of Canada or of a province.

APPLICATION

5. (1) This Act does not apply to telecommunications service providers in respect of the telecommunications services specified in Part 1 of Schedule 1 or to the telecommunications service providers in the classes listed in Part 2 of that Schedule in respect of the activities specified in that Part for that class.

(2) This Act — other than sections 8, 9, 14, 15, 24 to 26, 28 and 32 to 64 — does not apply to the telecommunications service providers in the classes listed in Part 1 of Schedule 2 in respect of the activities specified in that Part for that class.

(3) This Act, other than section 24, does not apply to the telecommunications service providers in the classes listed in Part 2 of Schedule 2 in respect of the activities specified in that Part for that class.

(4) The Governor in Council may, by regulation, amend Schedule 1 or 2 by adding, deleting or changing a telecommunications service, an activity or a class of telecommunications service providers.

OBLIGATIONS

Obligations Concerning Interceptions

6. (1) For the purpose of enabling authorized persons to exercise their authority to intercept communications, every telecommunications service provider must have the capa-bility to do the following:

(a) provide intercepted communications to authorized persons; and

(b) provide authorized persons with the prescribed information that is in the possession or control of the service provider respecting the location of equipment used in the transmission of communications.

(2) A telecommunications service provider, in connection with the interception of communications, must comply with any prescribed confidentiality or security measures.

(3) If an intercepted communication is encoded, compressed, encrypted or otherwise treated by a telecommunications service provid-er, the service provider must use the means in its control to provide the intercepted communication in the same form as it was before the communication was treated by the service provider.

(4) Despite subsection (3), a telecommunications service provider is not required to make the form of an intercepted communication the same as it was before the communication was treated if

(a) the service provider would be required to develop or acquire decryption techniques or decryption tools; or

(b) the treatment is intended only for the purposes of generating a digital signature or for certifying a communication by a prescribed certification authority, and has not been used for any other purpose.

(5) A telecommunications service provider that is capable of providing intercepted communications to an authorized person in more than one form or manner that conforms with the regulations must provide them in whichever of those forms or manners the authorized person requires.

7. The operational requirements in respect of any transmission apparatus are that the telecommunications service provider operating the apparatus have the capability to do the following:

(a) enable the interception of communications generated by or transmitted through the apparatus to or from any temporary or permanent user of the service provider’s telecommunications services;

(b) isolate the communication that is authorized to be intercepted from other information, including

(i) isolating the communications of the person whose communications are authorized to be intercepted from those of other persons, and

(ii) isolating the telecommunications data of the person whose communications are authorized to be intercepted from the rest of the person’s communications;

(c) provide prescribed information that permits the accurate correlation of all elements of intercepted communications; and

(d) enable simultaneous interceptions by authorized persons from multiple national security and law enforcement agencies of communications of multiple users, including enabling

(i) at least the minimum number of those interceptions, and

(ii) any greater number of those interceptions — up to the maximum number — for the period that an agency requests.

8. A telecommunications service provider that meets, in whole or in part, an operational requirement in respect of transmission apparatus that the service provider operates must continue to so meet that operational requirement.

9. A telecommunications service provider that meets, in whole or in part, an operational requirement in respect of transmission apparatus that the service provider operates in connection with any of the service provider’s telecommunications services must meet that operational requirement to the same extent in respect of any new service that the service provider begins to provide using that apparatus.

10. (1) A telecommunications service pro-vider that begins to operate any transmission apparatus for the purpose of providing telecommunications services must meet the operational requirements in respect of the apparatus, whether by means of the apparatus itself or by any other means.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply in respect of transmission apparatus that a telecommunications service provider acquires from another telecommunications service provider and operates in order to continue to provide the same telecommunications service to approximately the same users. However, the acquiring service provider must continue to meet any operational requirements in respect of the transmission apparatus that the service provider from whom it was acquired was obligated to meet.

11. (1) When a telecommunications service provider installs new software for any transmission apparatus that the service provider operates, the service provider must meet the operational requirements in respect of that apparatus to the extent that would be enabled by the installation of the software in the form available from the software’s manufacturer that would most increase the service provider’s ability to meet those operational requirements.

(2) Subsection (1) applies even if the form of the software in question would require the telecommunications service provider to acquire additional software licences or telecommunications facilities to achieve that increased ability.

12. Subject to section 14, a telecommunications service provider is not required, under sections 8 to 11, to increase the service provider’s capability to enable simultaneous interceptions beyond the applicable global limit.

13. (1) The Minister may, by order made on the application of a telecommunications service provider, suspend in whole or in part any obligation of the service provider to meet an operational requirement that would arise from the operation of section 10 or 11.

(2) The application must

(a) specify the operational requirement with respect to which an order is sought;

(b) set out the reasons for making the application;

(c) include a plan that

(i) sets out the measures by which and the time within which the telecommunica-tions service provider proposes to meet the operational requirement specified in accordance with paragraph (a),

(ii) describes any measures that the service provider proposes to take to improve the service provider’s capability to meet the operational requirements, even if they are not yet applicable, and

(iii) identifies the stages at which and methods by which the Minister can measure progress in the implementation of the plan and the time, manner and form for reports the service provider proposes to make to the Minister; and

(d) conform with the prescribed requirements relating to the content or form of the application or the manner in which it is to be made.

(3) In deciding whether to make an order, the Minister must take into account the public interest in national security and law enforcement and the commercial interests of the telecommunications service provider as well as any other matter that the Minister considers relevant.

(4) The Minister must, within 120 days after the day on which the Minister receives the application, notify the applicant of the Minister’s decision to accept or refuse it and, if no notification has been received by the applicant at the end of that period, the Minister is deemed to have refused the application.

(5) In the order, the Minister may include any conditions that the Minister considers appropriate and must fix its term for a period of not more than three years.

(6) The telecommunications service provider must comply with the conditions of the order as soon as the service provider begins to operate the telecommunications apparatus or installs the new software, as the case may be.

(7) The Minister may revoke an order on written notice to the telecommunications service provider if

(a) the service provider has contravened this Act, the regulations or the conditions of the order; or

(b) the order was obtained through misrepresentation.

(8) The Minister may amend an order with the consent of the telecommunications service provider.

14. (1) The Minister may, at the request of the Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or the Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and if in the Minister’s opinion it is necessary to do so, order a telecommunications service provider

(a) to comply with any obligation under subsections 6(1) and (2) in a manner or within a time that the Minister specifies;

(b) to enable, in a manner or within a time that the Minister specifies, a number of simultaneous interceptions greater than any maximum or limit that would otherwise apply;

(c) to comply, in a manner or within a time that the Minister specifies, with any confidentiality or security measures respecting interceptions that the Minister specifies in addition to those referred to in subsection 6(2);

(d) to meet an operational requirement in respect of transmission apparatus operated by the service provider that the service provider would not otherwise be required to meet; or

(e) to meet an operational requirement in respect of transmission apparatus operated by the service provider in a manner or within a time that the Minister specifies.

(2) The Minister is not authorized to make an order under subsection (1) in respect of a telecommunications service provider in relation to a telecommunications service specified in Part 1 of Schedule 1 or in respect of a telecommunications service provider in a class listed in Part 2 of Schedule 1 or Part 2 of Schedule 2 in relation to the activities specified for that class in Part 2 of Schedule 1 or Part 2 of Schedule 2, as the case may be.

(3) The Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or the Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, as the case may be, must pay the telecommunications service provider an amount that the Minister considers reasonable towards the expenses that the Minister considers are necessary for the service provider to incur initially to comply with an order made under this section.

(4) The Minister may provide the telecommunications service provider with any equipment or other thing that the Minister considers the service provider needs to comply with an order made under this section.

(5) Sections 8 and 9 do not apply in respect of any equipment or other thing provided by the Minister under subsection (4). However, the telecommunications service provider must provide notice to the Minister of any problems with the equipment or other thing provided and provide assistance in resolving the problem.

(6) An order made by the Minister under subsection (1) prevails over any regulations, to the extent of any inconsistency.

(7) The Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service may delegate his or her power to pay amounts under subsection (3) to, respectively, a member of a prescribed class of senior officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or a member of a prescribed class of senior officials of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

15. The Statutory Instruments Act does not apply in respect of an order made under section 13 or 14.

Obligations Concerning Subscriber Information

16. (1) On written request by a person designated under subsection (3) that includes prescribed identifying information, every telecommunications service provider must provide the person with identifying information in the service provider’s possession or control respecting the name, address, telephone number and electronic mail address of any subscriber to any of the service provider’s telecommunications services and the Internet protocol address and local service provider identifier that are associated with the subscriber’s service and equipment.

(2) A designated person must ensure that he or she makes a request under subsection (1) only in performing, as the case may be, a duty or function

(a) of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service under the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act;

(b) of a police service, including any related to the enforcement of any laws of Canada, of a province or of a foreign jurisdiction; or

(c) of the Commissioner of Competition under the Competition Act.

(3) The Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the Commissioner of Competition and the chief or head of a police service constituted under the laws of a province may designate for the purposes of this section any employee of his or her agency, or a class of such employees, whose duties are related to protecting national security or to law enforcement.

(4) The number of persons designated under subsection (3) in respect of a particular agency may not exceed the greater of five and the number that is equal to five per cent of the total number of employees of that agency.

(5) The Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service may delegate his or her power to designate persons under subsection (3) to, respectively, a member of a prescribed class of senior officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or a member of a prescribed class of senior officials of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

17. (1) Any police officer may, orally or in writing, request a telecommunications service provider to provide the officer with the information referred to in subsection 16(1) in the following circumstances:

(a) the officer believes on reasonable grounds that the urgency of the situation is such that the request cannot, with reasonable diligence, be made under that subsection;

(b) the officer believes on reasonable grounds that the information requested is immediately necessary to prevent an unlawful act that would cause serious harm to any person or to property; and

(c) the information directly concerns either the person who would perform the act that is likely to cause the harm or is the victim, or intended victim, of the harm.

The police officer must inform the telecommunications service provider of his or her name, rank, badge number and the agency in which he or she is employed and state that the request is being made in exceptional circumstances and under the authority of this subsection.

(2) The telecommunications service provider must provide the information to the police officer as if the request were made by a designated person under subsection 16(1).

(3) The police officer must, within 24 hours after making a request under subsection (1), communicate to a designated person employed in the same agency as the officer all of the information relating to the request that would be necessary if it had been made under subsection 16(1) and inform that person of the circumstances referred to in paragraphs (1)(a) to (c).

(4) On receiving the information, the designated person must in writing inform the telecommunications service provider that the request was made in exceptional circumstances under the authority of subsection (1).

18. (1) A designated person who makes a request under subsection 16(1), or who receives information under subsection 17(3), must create a record that

(a) in the case of a request made under subsection 16(1), identifies the duty or function referred to in subsection 16(2) in the performance of which the request is made, describes the relevance of the information requested to that duty or function and includes any other information that justifies the request and any other prescribed information; and

(b) in the case where the designated person receives information under subsection 17(3), includes the information referred to in paragraph (a) as well as the circumstances referred to in paragraphs 17(1)(a) to (c).

(2) The agency that employs the designated person must retain records created under subsection (1) and deal with the information provided in response to requests made under subsection 16(1) or 17(1).

19. Information that is provided in response to a request made under subsection 16(1) or 17(1) must not, without the consent of the individual to whom it relates, be used by the agency in which the designated person or police officer is employed except for the purpose for which the information was obtained or for a use consistent with that purpose.

20. (1) The Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the Commissioner of Competition and any chief or head of a police service constituted under the laws of a province who makes a designation under subsection 16(3) must cause internal audits to be regularly conducted of the practices of his or her agency to ensure compliance with sections 16 to 19 and the regulations made for the purposes of those sections and of the internal management and information systems and controls concerning requests made under sections 16 and 17.

(2) The person who causes an internal audit to be conducted must, without delay, report on the findings of the audit to the responsible minister.

(3) A copy of the report on the findings of the audit must be provided by that person

(a) if it concerns the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or the Commissioner of Competition, to the Privacy Commissioner appointed under section 53 of the Privacy Act;

(b) if it concerns the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, to the Security Intelligence Review Committee established by subsection 34(1) of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act; and

(c) if it concerns a police service constituted under the laws of a province, to the public officer for that province whose duties include investigations relating to the protection of privacy.

(4) The Privacy Commissioner may, on reasonable notice, conduct an audit of the practices of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or the Commissioner of Competition to ensure compliance with sections 16 to 19 and the regulations made for the purposes of those sections and of the internal management and information systems and controls concerning requests made under sections 16 and 17. The provisions of the Privacy Act apply, with any necessary modifications, in respect of the audit as if it were an investigation under that Act.

(5) For greater certainty, the functions of the Security Intelligence Review Committee under section 38 of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act include the power to conduct an audit of the practices of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to ensure compliance with sections 16, 18 and 19 and the regulations made for the purposes of those sections and of the internal management and information systems and controls concerning requests made under section 16.

(6) The Privacy Commissioner must, in the report made to Parliament for each financial year, identify the public officers to whom copies of reports are to be provided under paragraph (3)(c) and report on the powers that they have to conduct audits similar to those referred to in subsection (4) with respect to the police services constituted under the laws of their province.

(7) A person conducting an internal audit under this section may require a telecommunications service provider to give the person access to any records in the possession or control of the service provider that are relevant to the audit.

(8) For the purposes of this section, “responsible minister” means

(a) in relation to the Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness;

(b) in relation to the Commissioner of Competition, the Minister of Industry; and

(c) in relation to the chief or head of a police service constituted under the laws of a province, the Attorney General of that province.

21. (1) A telecommunications service pro-vider that provides information to a person under section 16 or 17 is entitled to be paid the prescribed fee for providing the information.

(2) If the information is requested by a designated person under section 16, the fee is to be paid by the designating authority.

(3) If the information is requested by a police officer under section 17, the fee is to be paid by the chief or head of the police service that employs the police officer.

22. Nothing in this Act derogates from any other authority under law to obtain the information referred to in subsection 16(1) from a telecommunications service provider.

23. Personal information, as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, that is provided under subsection 16(1) or 17(1) is deemed, for the purposes of subsections 9(2.1) to (2.4) of that Act, to be disclosed under subparagraph 7(3)(c.1)(i) or (ii), and not under paragraph 7(3)(i), of that Act. This section operates despite the other provisions of Part 1 of that Act.

Miscellaneous Provisions

24. (1) A telecommunications service provider must, on the request of a police officer or of an employee of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or the Canadian Security Intelligence Service,

(a) provide the prescribed information relating to the service provider’s telecommunications facilities;

(b) indicate what telecommunications serv-ices the service provider offers to subscribers; and

(c) provide the name, address and telephone number of any telecommunications service providers from whom the service provider obtains or to whom the service provider provides telecommunications services, if the service provider has that information.

(2) A telecommunications service provider must, on the request of an authorized person, provide the prescribed information concerning

(a) telecommunications services that are provided by the service provider to a person whose communications are the subject of a court order authorizing their interception; and

(b) telecommunications facilities that are used by the service provider in providing those telecommunications services.

25. A telecommunications service provider must, on the request of a police officer or of an employee of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, provide all reasonable assistance to permit the police officer or employee to assess or to test the service provider’s telecommunications facilities that may be used to intercept communications.

26. If the Canadian Security Intelligence Service or a law enforcement agency has provided a telecommunications service provider with any equipment or other thing for intercepting communications, the service provider must, before making any change to the service provider’s telecommunications facilities that is likely to impair or reduce the interception capability of the equipment or other thing, notify the Canadian Security Intelligence Serv-ice or law enforcement agency, as the case may be, of the change.

27. A telecommunications service provider must notify the Minister when

(a) in respect of any particular transmission apparatus, the increased number of simultaneous interceptions that the service provider is required, as a result of a request referred to in subparagraph 7(d)(ii), to be capable of enabling is 75% or more of the maximum number that is applicable under that subparagraph; or

(b) the number of simultaneous interceptions that the service provider is required, under sections 8 to 11, to be capable of enabling is 75% or more of the global limit that is applicable under section 12.

28. (1) A telecommunications service provider must, on the request of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, provide a list of the names of the persons who are employed by or carrying out work for the service provider who may assist in the interception of communications.

(2) A telecommunications service provider must provide any changes to the list to the agency who made the request.

(3) The Royal Canadian Mounted Police or the Canadian Security Intelligence Service may conduct an investigation for the purposes of a security assessment of any of those persons who consent to the investigation.

29. (1) If the prescribed conditions are met, a telecommunications service provider that provides under this Act prescribed specialized telecommunications support to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service or a law enforcement agency is entitled, on request, to be paid an amount determined in accordance with the regulations for providing that support.

(2) The amount must be paid by the agency that received the specialized telecommunications support.

30. (1) A telecommunications service pro-vider that acquires transmission apparatus referred to in subsection 10(2) must, before using it in providing telecommunications serv-ices, submit to the Minister a report in the prescribed form and manner containing the following information:

(a) the prescribed information concerning the extent to which the service provider meets operational requirements in respect of the transmission apparatus; and

(b) any prescribed information relevant to the administration of this Act.

(2) A telecommunications service provider must, at the request of the Minister, submit a report in the form and manner, and within the period, that the Minister specifies containing the information referred to in paragraphs (1)(a) and (b) and any additional related information that the Minister specifies.

(3) Every report submitted under this section must include a written statement certifying that it does not contain any untrue statements or omissions of material facts, that it fairly presents the telecommunications service provider’s operations at the time of submission and that the signator has taken steps to ensure the report’s accuracy and promises to correct any material error that is detected in the report after its submission and to submit a revised report to the Minister as soon as possible, with another similar written statement accompanying it.

(4) The statement must be signed

(a) if the telecommunications service provid-er is a corporation, by one of its officers or directors; and

(b) in any other case, by an individual who is an owner of the telecommunications service provider or by an officer or a director of a corporation that is an owner of the telecommunications service provider.

31. If two or more telecommunications service providers have, in effect, the same obligation under this Act in connection with any given transmission apparatus or a given interception and any one of them performs that obligation, it is deemed to be performed by all.

EXEMPTIONS

32. (1) The Governor in Council may, on the recommendation of the Minister and the Minister of Industry, by regulation, exempt any class of telecommunications service providers from all or part of the obligations under any of sections 6, 9 to 11, 16, 17 and 30 or under any regulations made for the purposes of those sections.

(2) Before making or amending such a regulation, the Governor in Council must consider

(a) the extent to which the exemption would adversely affect national security or law enforcement;

(b) whether the telecommunications service providers can comply with the obligations from which they would be exempted;

(c) whether the costs of compliance with those obligations would have an unreasonable adverse effect on the business of the telecommunications service providers; and

(d) whether compliance with those obligations would unreasonably impair the provision of telecommunications services to Canadians or the competitiveness of the Canadian telecommunications industry.

(3) In the regulation, the Governor in Council may include any conditions that the Governor in Council considers appropriate and must fix its term for a period of not more than two years.

(4) When a regulation under which a telecommunications service provider is exempted from an obligation under section 10 or 11 expires or is repealed, section 10 or 11, as the case may be, applies to the telecommunications service provider that was exempted as of the date of expiry or repeal as if the exemption had never been made.

ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT

33. (1) The Minister may designate persons or classes of persons as inspectors for the purposes of the administration and enforcement of this Act.

(2) An inspector is to receive a certificate attesting to their designation and must, on request, present the certificate to any person appearing to be in charge of any place that the inspector enters under subsection 34(1).

34. (1) An inspector may, for a purpose related to verifying compliance with this Act, enter any place owned by, or under the control of, any telecommunications service provider in which the inspector has reasonable grounds to believe there is any document, information, transmission apparatus, telecommunications facility or any other thing to which this Act applies.

(2) The inspector may, for that purpose,

(a) examine any document, information or thing found in the place and open or cause to be opened any container or other thing;

(b) examine or test or cause to be tested any telecommunications facility or transmission apparatus or related equipment found in the place;

(c) use, or cause to be used, any computer system in the place to search and examine any information contained in or available to the system;

(d) reproduce, or cause to be reproduced, any information in the form of a printout, or other intelligible output, and remove the printout, or other output, for examination or copying; or

(e) use, or cause to be used, any copying equipment or means of telecommunication at the place.

(3) The owner or person in charge of the place and every person in the place must give all assistance that is reasonably required to enable the inspector to perform their functions under this section and must provide any documents or information, and access to any data, that are reasonably required for that purpose.

(4) The inspector may be accompanied by any other person that they believe is necessary to help them perform their functions under this section.

35. (1) If the place referred to in subsection 34(1) is a dwelling-house, the inspector may enter it without the occupant’s consent only under the authority of a warrant issued under subsection (2).

(2) On ex parte application, a justice of the peace may issue a warrant authorizing the inspector to enter a dwelling-house, subject to any conditions specified in the warrant, if the justice is satisfied by information on oath that

(a) the dwelling-house is a place referred to in subsection 34(1);

(b) entry to the dwelling-house is necessary for a purpose related to verifying compliance with this Act; and

(c) entry was refused by the occupant or there are reasonable grounds to believe that entry will be refused by, or that consent to entry cannot be obtained from, the occupant.

36. An inspector and any person accompanying them may enter private property — other than a dwelling-house — and pass through it in order to gain entry to a place referred to in subsection 34(1). For greater certainty, they are not liable for doing so.

37. In executing a warrant to enter a dwelling-house, an inspector may use force only if the use of force has been specifically authorized in the warrant and they are accompanied by a peace officer.

38. (1) A person must not knowingly make a false or misleading statement or provide false or misleading information, in connection with any matter under this Act, to an inspector who is performing their functions under section 34.

(2) A person must not obstruct or hinder an inspector who is performing their functions under section 34.

ADMINISTRATIVE MONETARY PENALTIES

Violations

39. Every person who contravenes a provision, order, requirement or condition designated under subparagraph 64(1)(p)(i) commits a violation and is liable to an administrative monetary penalty not exceeding the prescribed maximum or, if no maximum has been prescribed, to a penalty not exceeding $50,000, in the case of an individual, and $250,000, in any other case.

40. For the purposes of any of sections 39 and 41 to 53, the Minister may designate persons or classes of persons to exercise powers in relation to any matter referred to in the designation.

Notices of Violation

41. (1) A designated person may issue a notice of violation and cause it to be served on a person if they believe on reasonable grounds that the person has committed a violation.

(2) The Minister may establish the form and content of notices of violation, but each notice of violation must

(a) set out the name of the person believed to have committed the violation;

(b) identify the violation;

(c) set out the penalty that the person is liable to pay;

(d) inform the person that they may, within 30 days after the day on which the notice is served or within any longer period specified in it, either pay the penalty set out in the notice or make representations with respect to the alleged violation or penalty — including any representations about entering into a compliance agreement — and set out the manner for doing so; and

(e) inform the person that, if they fail to pay the penalty or make representations in accordance with the notice, they will be considered to have committed the violation and the penalty will be imposed.

(3) The amount of a penalty is, in each case, to be determined taking into account the following matters:

(a) that administrative monetary penalties have as their purpose to encourage compliance rather than to punish;

(b) the nature and scope of the violation;

(c) the person’s history of prior violations or convictions — or compliance agreements entered into — under this Act during the five-year period immediately before the violation;

(d) the cumulative amount of the penalties that may be imposed for any violation in respect of which section 48 applies;

(e) any prescribed criteria; and

(f) any other relevant matter.

Determination of Responsibility and Penalty

42. (1) A person who is served with a notice of violation must, in accordance with the notice, pay the penalty set out in the notice or make representations with respect to the amount of the penalty or the acts or omissions that constitute the alleged violation.

(2) A person is deemed to have committed the violation if they either pay the penalty in accordance with the notice of violation or do not pay the penalty and do not make representations in accordance with the notice of violation.

43. (1) The person alleged to have committed a violation may make representations to a designated person other than the one who issued the notice of violation.

(2) The designated person to whom the representations are made must either

(a) enter into a compliance agreement with the person on behalf of the Minister; or

(b) decide on a balance of probabilities whether the person committed the violation and, if so, impose the penalty set out in the notice of violation, a lesser penalty or no penalty, taking into account the matters mentioned in subsection 41(3).

The designated person must cause notice of any decision made under paragraph (b) to be issued and served on the person together with written reasons for the decision and notice of the person’s right of appeal under subsection 44(1).

(3) A compliance agreement

(a) may include any terms that the designated person considers appropriate including a requirement that the person alleged to have committed a violation give reasonable securi-ty — in a form and an amount that the designated person considers satisfactory — for the person’s performance of the agreement; and

(b) must provide for payment by the person alleged to have committed a violation to the Receiver General of a specified amount not greater than the penalty set out in the notice of violation if the person does not comply with the agreement.

(4) Entry into a compliance agreement ends the violation proceedings and precludes any further violation or offence proceedings in relation to the act or omission in question.

(5) The Minister may issue and serve a notice of default on a person who has entered into a compliance agreement but has not complied with it. On service of the notice, the person is liable to pay without delay the amount provided for in the agreement, failing which, the Minister may realize any security for the person’s performance of the agreement.

Appeal to Minister

44. (1) A person served with notice of a decision made under paragraph 43(2)(b) may, within 30 days after the day on which the notice is served or within any longer period that the Minister allows in accordance with the regulations, appeal the decision to the Minister.

(2) On an appeal, the Minister may confirm, set aside or vary the decision of the designated person.

Rules About Violations

45. A person is liable for a violation that is committed by the person’s employee acting in the course of his or her employment or the person’s agent or mandatary acting within the scope of his or her authority, whether or not the employee, agent or mandatary who actually committed the violation is identified or proceeded against.

46. An officer, director, agent or mandatary of a person other than an individual that commits a violation is a party to the violation if he or she directed, authorized, assented to, acquiesced in or participated in the commission of the violation and is liable to the administrative monetary penalty provided for that violation whether or not the person that committed the violation has been proceeded against under sections 41 to 43. For greater certainty, an officer or director, or any agent or mandatary who is an individual, is liable only to the penalty provided in respect of an individual.

47. A person is not liable for a violation if they establish that they exercised due diligence to prevent the commission of the violation.

48. A violation that is committed or continued on more than one day constitutes a separate violation for each day on which it is committed or continued.

49. Any proceedings in respect of a violation may be instituted at any time within, but not later than, two years after the day on which the subject matter of the proceedings arose.

50. (1) If it is possible to proceed with any act or omission as a violation and it is also possible to proceed with it as an offence, proceeding in one manner precludes proceeding in the other.

(2) For greater certainty, a violation is not an offence.

(3) Section 126 of the Criminal Code does not apply in respect of any obligation or prohibition under this Act whose contravention is a violation under this Act.

51. In any proceeding, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, a document that appears to be a notice issued under subsection 41(1) or 43(2) or (5) or a certificate issued under subsection 53(1) is presumed to be authentic and is proof of its contents.

Recovery of Penalties and Other Amounts

52. (1) A penalty imposed under this Act and an amount referred to in subsection 43(5) each constitute a debt due to Her Majesty in right of Canada and may be recovered in the Federal Court or any other court of competent jurisdiction.

(2) No proceedings to recover such a debt may be commenced later than five years after the day on which the debt became payable.

(3) Each such debt is payable to the Receiver General.

53. (1) The Minister may issue a certificate certifying the unpaid amount of any debt referred to in subsection 52(1).

(2) Registration in the Federal Court or in any other court of competent jurisdiction of the certificate has the same effect as a judgment of that court for a debt of the amount specified in the certificate and all related registration costs.

OFFENCES AND PUNISHMENT

54. A person must not do any of the following things in performing any obligation under this Act or in any application, declaration or report made under it:

(a) knowingly make a false or misleading statement or knowingly provide false or misleading information; or

(b) knowingly omit to state a material fact or to provide material information.

55. Every person who wilfully contravenes subsection 6(1) or (2), any of sections 8 to 11, an order made under subsection 14(1) or any regulations made under paragraph 64(1)(a) commits an offence and is liable on prosecution by summary conviction

(a) in the case of an individual, to a fine not exceeding $100,000; or

(b) in any other case, to a fine not exceeding $500,000.

56. (1) Every person who contravenes subsection 13(6), section 26, 30 or 54 or a condition referred to in subsection 32(3) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and liable

(a) in the case of an individual, to a fine not exceeding $25,000 for a first offence, or $50,000 for a subsequent offence; or

(b) in any other case, to a fine not exceeding $100,000 for a first offence, or $250,000 for a subsequent offence.

(2) Every person who contravenes subsection 34(3) or 38(1) or (2) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and liable to a fine not exceeding $15,000.

57. Every person who contravenes any provision of this Act or a regulation made under this Act, except in the case of an offence referred to in sections 55 and 56, is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and liable to a fine not exceeding $250,000.

58. A prosecution is not to be commenced in respect of an offence referred to in section 55 or subsection 56(1) without the consent of the Attorney General of Canada.

59. A person is not to be convicted of an offence under this Act, other than for a contravention of subsection 38(1) or section 54 or an offence referred to in section 55, if they establish that they exercised due diligence to prevent the commission of the offence.

60. If a person other than an individual commits an offence under this Act, every officer, director, agent or mandatary of the person who directed, authorized, assented to, acquiesced in or participated in the commission of the offence is a party to and guilty of the offence and liable on conviction to the punishment provided for the offence whether or not the person that committed the offence has been prosecuted or convicted. For greater certainty, an officer or director, or any agent or mandatary who is an individual, is liable only to the punishment provided in respect of an individual.

61. If an offence under this Act is committed or continued on more than one day, the person who committed the offence is liable to be convicted for a separate offence for each day on which the offence is committed or continued.

62. Proceedings in respect of an offence under this Act may be instituted at any time within, but not later than, two years after the day on which the subject matter of the proceedings arose.

63. (1) If a court of competent jurisdiction is satisfied that a contravention of subsection 10(1) or section 11 is being or is likely to be committed, the court may, on application by the Minister, grant an injunction, subject to any conditions that it considers appropriate, ordering any person to cease or refrain from operating the transmission apparatus referred to in subsection 10(1) or to refrain from acquiring, installing or operating the new software referred to in section 11.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the Federal Court is a court of competent jurisdiction.

REGULATIONS

64. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations

(a) respecting the obligations to be performed under subsections 6(1) and (2), including specifying the circumstances in which those obligations do not apply or need not be performed;

(b) respecting the time, manner and form in which the information referred to in paragraph 6(1)(b) is to be provided to an authorized person;

(c) respecting the time, manner and form in which an intercepted communication is to be provided to an authorized person;

(d) requiring telecommunications service providers to specify the locations where intercepted communications will be provided, respecting the time, manner and form in which the locations are specified and respecting which locations may be so specified;

(e) requiring telecommunications service providers to create and keep records with respect to interceptions;

(f) respecting the operational requirements referred to in section 7, including matters of time, manner and form in relation to them and the circumstances in which they do not apply or need not be met;

(g) for the purposes of paragraph 7(a), specifying what is a communication;

(h) for the purposes of paragraph 7(d)

(i) providing for the minimum number and maximum number of simultaneous interceptions or the manner of determining them,

(ii) prescribing what is to be counted as a single interception,

(iii) respecting the time, manner and form in which a request to increase the number of those interceptions is to be made, the circumstances in which such a request may be made, the time within which the increase is to be made and the duration of the increase, and

(iv) respecting the maximum number of agencies for which a telecommunications service provider is to simultaneously enable interceptions;

(i) providing for the global limit referred to in section 12, or the manner of determining it, respecting the circumstances in which it does not apply or need not be met and prescribing what is to be counted as a single interception;

(j) for the purposes of subsection 14(3), prescribing expenses and prescribing matters that the Minister is to consider in deciding what amount is reasonable or what prescribed expenses are necessary;

(k) for the purposes of subsection 14(5), respecting the provision of notice and assistance;

(l) for the purposes of sections 16 and 17, respecting requests made under those sections and the provision of information under those sections, including

(i) respecting the form of that information, the manner of — and time for — providing it and the circumstances under which particular information is to be provided, and

(ii) prescribing any confidentiality or security measures with which the telecommunications service provider must comply;

(m) for the purposes of section 18, respecting the creation and retention of records and the dealing with information;

(n) for the purposes of section 25, respecting the assistance to be provided in the assessment and testing of telecommunications facilities;

(o) for the purposes of section 29, respecting requests for payment and the making of payments;

(p) for carrying out sections 39 to 53, including

(i) designating any provision of this Act or of any regulation, or any order or class of orders made under this Act or any requirement or condition of such a provision or order or class of orders — or class of such requirements or conditions — as a provision, order, requirement or condition whose contravention may be proceeded with as a violation,

(ii) prescribing the maximum administrative monetary penalty for a particular violation, which maximum may not exceed $50,000, in the case of an individual, and $250,000, in any other case,

(iii) respecting compliance agreements referred to in subsection 43(3),

(iv) respecting the service of notices referred to in those sections, including the manner of serving them, the proof of their service and the circumstances under which they are deemed to have been served, and

(v) respecting procedure on appeals, which procedure must provide for a reasonable opportunity for the appellant to present written evidence and make representations in writing;

(q) prescribing anything that is to be prescribed under this Act; and

(r) generally, for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act.

(2) Regulations made under subsection (1) may apply generally or to particular classes of telecommunications service providers and may vary by class of telecommunications serv-ice provider, by class of telecommunications service provided, by class of telecommunications facility, according to the population of the region in which a telecommunications facility of a given class is located or by the manner in which information is provided.

(3) Regulations made under subsection (1) that incorporate documents by reference may incorporate them as amended from time to time.

COMPENSATION

65. There is to be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund the sums required to meet the monetary obligations of Her Majesty in right of Canada under subsections 14(3), 21(1) and 29(1).

66. If compensation for the provision of information or specialized telecommunications support is to be paid under section 21 or 29, no such compensation is to be paid under any other Act of Parliament.

REVIEW OF ACT

67. Five years after the day on which this section comes into force, a committee of the House of Commons, of the Senate or of both Houses of Parliament is to be designated or established for the purpose of reviewing this Act.

Transitional Provisions

3. (1) The application of section 10 of the Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications Act, as enacted by section 2, with respect to transmission apparatus that a telecommunications service provider begins to operate in the 18-month period beginning on the day on which that section 10 comes into force is suspended for the duration of that period.

(2) The application of section 11 of the Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications Act with respect to transmission apparatus for which a telecommunications service provider installs new software in the 18-month period beginning on the day on which that section comes into force is suspended for the duration of that period.

4. (1) A telecommunications service provider that, together with any affiliated or associated telecommunications service provid-er, has fewer than 100,000 subscribers, without regard to the telecommunications service to which they subscribe, is considered — during the three years after the day on which section 10 or 11 of the Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications Act, as enacted by section 2, comes into force, as the case may be — to meet any operational requirement in respect of transmission apparatus that the service provider is obligated to meet by virtue of that section 10 or 11, as the case may be, if the service provider provides a physical connection point for the transmission apparatus permitting an authorized person to effect an interception.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the Governor in Council may make regulations defining the expression “affiliated or associated telecommunications service provider” and respecting the provision of a physical connection point.

5. Every telecommunications service provider that is providing telecommunications services on the day on which section 30 of the Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications Act, as enacted by section 2, comes into force must, within six months after that day and in accordance with that section 30, submit a report to the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness respecting the telecommunications facilities that it operates on that day.

PART 2

AMENDMENTS TO THE CRIMINAL CODE AND OTHER ACTS

Criminal Code

6. (1) The portion of subsection 164.1(1) of the Criminal Code before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

164.1 (1) If a judge is satisfied by information on oath that there are reasonable grounds to believe that there is material — namely child pornography within the meaning of section 163.1, a voyeuristic recording within the meaning of subsection 164(8) or computer data within the meaning of subsection 342.1(2) that makes child pornography or a voyeuristic recording available — that is stored on and made available through a computer system within the meaning of subsection 342.1(2) that is within the jurisdiction of the court, the judge may order the custodian of the computer system to

(2) Subsection 164.1(5) of the Act is replaced by the following:

(5) If the court is satisfied, on a balance of probabilities, that the material is child pornog-raphy within the meaning of section 163.1, a voyeuristic recording within the meaning of subsection 164(8) or computer data within the meaning of subsection 342.1(2) that makes child pornography or the voyeuristic recording available, it may order the custodian of the computer system to delete the material.

(3) Subsection 164.1(7) of the Act is replaced by the following:

(7) If the court is not satisfied that the material is child pornography within the meaning of section 163.1, a voyeuristic recording within the meaning of subsection 164(8) or computer data within the meaning of subsection 342.1(2) that makes child pornography or the voyeuristic recording available, the court shall order that the electronic copy be returned to the custodian and terminate the order under paragraph (1)(b).

7. (1) Subparagraph (a)(lviii) of the definition “offence” in section 183 of the Act is replaced by the following:

(lviii) section 342.2 (possession of device to obtain unauthorized use of computer system or to commit mischief),

(2) Subparagraph (a)(lxvii) of the definition “offence” in section 183 of the Act is replaced by the following:

(lxvii) section 372 (false information),

8. Section 184.2 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (4):

9. Section 184.4 of the Act is replaced by the following:

184.4 A peace officer may intercept, by means of any electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device, a private communication if the peace officer has reasonable grounds to believe that

(a) the urgency of the situation is such that an authorization could not, with reasonable diligence, be obtained under any other provision of this Part;

(b) the interception is immediately necessary to prevent an offence that would cause serious harm to any person or to property; and

(c) either the originator of the private communication or the person intended by the originator to receive it is the person who would commit the offence that is likely to cause the harm or is the victim, or intended victim, of the harm.

10. Section 186 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (7):

11. Section 187 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (7):

12. Section 188 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (5):

13. (1) Subsection 195(1) of the Act is replaced by the following:

195. (1) The Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness shall, as soon as possible after the end of each year, prepare a report relating to

(a) authorizations for which that Minister and agents to be named in the report who were specially designated in writing by that Minister for the purposes of section 185 applied and to the interceptions made under those authorizations in the immediately preceding year;

(b) authorizations given under section 188 for which peace officers to be named in the report who were specially designated by that Minister for the purposes of that section applied and to the interceptions made under those authorizations in the immediately preceding year; and

(2) The portion of subsection 195(2) of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

(2) The report shall, in relation to the authorizations and interceptions referred to in paragraphs (1)(a) and (b), set out

(3) Section 195 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (2):

(4) The portion of subsection 195(3) of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

(3) The report shall, in addition to the information referred to in subsections (2) and (2.1), set out

(5) Subsection 195(5) of the Act is replaced by the following:

(5) The Attorney General of each province shall, as soon as possible after the end of each year, prepare and publish or otherwise make available to the public a report relating to

(a) authorizations for which the Attorney General and agents specially designated in writing by the Attorney General for the purposes of section 185 applied and to the interceptions made under those authorizations in the immediately preceding year;

(b) authorizations given under section 188 for which peace officers specially designated by the Attorney General for the purposes of that section applied and to the interceptions made under those authorizations in the immediately preceding year; and

The report must set out, with any modifications that the circumstances require, the information described in subsections (2) to (3).

14. The Act is amended by adding the following after section 196:

15. Subsection 318(4) of the Act is replaced by the following:

(4) In this section, “identifiable group” means any section of the public distinguished by colour, race, religion, national or ethnic origin or sexual orientation.

16. The definition “identifiable group” in subsection 319(7) of the Act is replaced by the following:

17. (1) The portion of subsection 320.1(1) of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

320.1 (1) If a judge is satisfied by information on oath that there are reasonable grounds to believe that there is material that is hate propaganda within the meaning of subsection 320(8) or computer data within the meaning of subsection 342.1(2) that makes hate propaganda available, that is stored on and made available to the public through a computer system within the meaning of subsection 342.1(2) that is within the jurisdiction of the court, the judge may order the custodian of the computer system to

(2) Subsection 320.1(5) of the Act is replaced by the following:

(5) If the court is satisfied, on a balance of probabilities, that the material is available to the public and is hate propaganda within the meaning of subsection 320(8) or computer data within the meaning of subsection 342.1(2) that makes hate propaganda available, it may order the custodian of the computer system to delete the material.

(3) Subsection 320.1(7) of the Act is replaced by the following:

(7) If the court is not satisfied that the material is available to the public and is hate propaganda within the meaning of subsection 320(8) or computer data within the meaning of subsection 342.1(2) that makes hate propaganda available, the court shall order that the electron-ic copy be returned to the custodian and terminate the order under paragraph (1)(b).

18. (1) Paragraph 326(1)(b) of the French version of the Act is replaced by the following:

(2) Subsection 326(2) of the Act is repealed.

19. Section 327 of the Act is replaced by the following:

327. (1) Everyone who, without lawful excuse, makes, possesses, sells, offers for sale, imports, obtains for use, distributes or makes available a device that is designed or adapted primarily to use a telecommunication facility or obtain a telecommunication service without payment of a lawful charge, under circumstances that give rise to a reasonable inference that the device has been used or is or was intended to be used for that purpose, is

(a) guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years; or

(2) If a person is convicted of an offence under subsection (1) or paragraph 326(1)(b), in addition to any punishment that is imposed, any device in relation to which the offence was committed or the possession of which constituted the offence may be ordered forfeited to Her Majesty and may be disposed of as the Attorney General directs.

(3) No order for forfeiture is to be made in respect of telecommunication facilities or equipment by means of which an offence under subsection (1) is committed if they are owned by a person engaged in providing a telecommunication service to the public or form part of such a person’s telecommunication service or system and that person is not a party to the offence.

20. (1) Subsection 342.1(1) of the Act is replaced by the following:

342.1 (1) Everyone is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years, or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction who, fraudulently and without colour of right,

(a) obtains, directly or indirectly, any computer service;

(b) by means of an electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device, intercepts or causes to be intercepted, directly or indirectly, any function of a computer system;

(c) uses or causes to be used, directly or indirectly, a computer system with intent to commit an offence under paragraph (a) or (b) or under section 430 in relation to computer data or a computer system; or

(d) uses, possesses, traffics in or permits another person to have access to a computer password that would enable a person to commit an offence under paragraph (a), (b) or (c).

(2) The definition “data” in subsection 342.1(2) of the Act is repealed.

(3) The definitions “computer password”, “computer program”, “computer service” and “computer system” in subsection 342.1(2) of the Act are replaced by the following:

“computer password” means any computer data by which a computer service or computer system is capable of being obtained or used;

“computer program” means computer data representing instructions or statements that, when executed in a computer system, causes the computer system to perform a function;

“computer service” includes data processing and the storage or retrieval of computer data;

“computer system” means a device that, or a group of interconnected or related devices one or more of which,

(a) contains computer programs or other computer data, and

(b) by means of computer programs,

(i) performs logic and control, and

(ii) may perform any other function;

(4) Subsection 342.1(2) of the Act is amended by adding the following in alphabetical order:

21. (1) Subsections 342.2(1) and (2) of the Act are replaced by the following:

342.2 (1) Everyone who, without lawful excuse, makes, possesses, sells, offers for sale, imports, obtains for use, distributes or makes available a device that is designed or adapted primarily to commit an offence under section 342.1 or 430, under circumstances that give rise to a reasonable inference that the device has been used or is or was intended to be used to commit such an offence, is

(a) guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years; or

(b) guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

(2) If a person is convicted of an offence under subsection (1), in addition to any punishment that is imposed, any device in relation to which the offence was committed or the possession of which constituted the offence may be ordered forfeited to Her Majesty and may be disposed of as the Attorney General directs.

(2) Section 342.2 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (3):

22. Sections 371 and 372 of the Act are replaced by the following:

371. Everyone who, with intent to defraud, causes a message to be sent as if it were sent under the authority of another person, knowing that it is not sent under that authority and with intent that it should be acted on as if it were, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years.

372. (1) Everyone commits an offence who, with intent to injure or alarm a person, conveys information that they know is false, or causes such information to be conveyed by letter or any means of telecommunication.

(2) Everyone commits an offence who, with intent to alarm or annoy a person, makes an indecent communication to that person or to any other person by a means of telecommunication.

(3) Everyone commits an offence who, without lawful excuse and with intent to harass a person, repeatedly communicates, or causes repeated communications to be made, with them by a means of telecommunication.

23. (1) Subsection 430(1.1) of the Act is replaced by the following:

(1.1) Everyone commits mischief who wilfully

(a) destroys or alters computer data;

(b) renders computer data meaningless, useless or ineffective;

(c) obstructs, interrupts or interferes with the lawful use of computer data; or

(d) obstructs, interrupts or interferes with a person in the lawful use of computer data or denies access to computer data to a person who is entitled to access to it.

(2) The portion of subsection 430(5) of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

(5) Everyone who commits mischief in relation to computer data

(3) The portion of subsection 430(5.1) of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

(5.1) Everyone who wilfully does an act or wilfully omits to do an act that it is their duty to do, if that act or omission is likely to constitute mischief causing actual danger to life, or to constitute mischief in relation to property or computer data,

(4) Subsection 430(8) of the Act is replaced by the following:

(8) In this section, “computer data” has the same meaning as in subsection 342.1(2).

24. Sections 487.011 to 487.02 of the Act are replaced by the following:

487.02 If an authorization is given under section 184.2, 184.3, 186 or 188 or a warrant is issued under this Act, the judge or justice who gives the authorization or issues the warrant may order a person to provide assistance, if the person’s assistance may reasonably be considered to be required to give effect to the authorization or warrant.

25. The heading before section 487.1 of the Act is replaced by the following: