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Article 497
 

Strict liability offences — summary conviction


(1) Every person is guilty of an offence who


(a) being a registered party, contravenes section 392 (failure to provide statement of assets and liabilities or related documents);


(b) being a registered party, contravenes subsection 396(2) or, being a registered party or an eligible party, contravenes subsection 395(4), section 399, subsection 400(1) or (2) or section 401 (failure to comply with requirements re: officers, chief agent, registered agents or auditor);


(c) being a registered party, contravenes subsection 405(1) or (4) (failure to report changes to registered party information);


(d) being a registered party, contravenes section 407 (failure to confirm validity of information on party);


(e) being a chief agent of a deregistered political party, contravenes section 420 (failure to provide financial transactions return or election expenses return or related documents);


(f) being a chief agent of a merging registered party, contravenes section 424 (failure to provide financial transactions return or related documents);


(g) being a chief agent, contravenes section 428 (failure to pay recoverable claim within three years);


(g.1) being a chief agent, contravenes subsection 429.2(1) (exceeding partisan advertising expenses limit);


(g.2) being a registered party, contravenes subsection 429.2(2) (circumventing partisan advertising expenses limit);


(g.3) being a third party, contravenes subsection 429.2(3) (colluding to circumvent partisan advertising expenses limit);


(g.4) being a registered party or a person acting on behalf of a registered party, contravenes section 429.3 (failure to indicate authority for partisan advertising);


(h) being a chief agent, contravenes subsection 431(1) (exceeding election expenses limit);


(h.1) being a third party, contravenes subsection 431(2) (colluding to circumvent election expenses limit);


(i) being a chief agent, contravenes subsection 432(1), (2), (3) or (5) (failure to provide financial transactions return or related documents);


(j) being a chief agent, contravenes section 433 (failure to provide quarterly return);


(k) being a registered agent, contravenes section 434 (failure to pay excess contributions);
(l) being a chief agent, contravenes paragraph 436(b) (providing document that is substantially incomplete); 


(m) being a chief agent, contravenes subsection 437(1), (2) or (3) (failure to provide election expenses return or related documents);


(n) being a chief agent, contravenes paragraph 439(b) (providing document that is substantially incomplete);


(o) being a chief agent, contravenes subsection 440(3) (failure to provide corrected or revised document within specified period);


(p) being a chief agent or the leader of a registered party, contravenes subsection 442(3) (failure to provide corrected or revised document within 30-day
period or any extension of that period); or


(q) being the chief executive officer of a provincial division, contravenes subsection 446(5) (failure to report provincial division changes).