'Rights during investigation - self incrimination' in document 'Canada - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

Criminal Code of Canada

PART XVIII - PROCEDURE ON PRELIMINARY

INQUIRY - TAKING EVIDENCE OF WITNESSES

542. (1) Nothing in this Act prevents a prosecutor giving in evidence at a preliminary inquiry any admission, confession or statement made at any time by the accused that by law is admissible against him.

(2) Every one who publishes in any document, or broadcasts or transmits in any way, a report that any admission or confession was tendered in evidence at a preliminary inquiry or a report of the nature of such admission or confession so tendered in evidence unless

(a) the accused has been discharged, or

(b) if the accused has been ordered to stand trial, the trial has ended,

is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 55
Rights of persons during an investigation
1. In respect of an investigation under this Statute, a person:
(a) Shall not be compelled to incriminate himself or herself or to confess guilt