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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.

Criminal Code of Canada

PART XX - PROCEDURE IN JURY TRIALS AND GENERAL PROVISIONS

EVIDENCE ON TRIAL

655. Where an accused is on trial for an indictable offence, he or his counsel may admit any fact alleged against him for the purpose of dispensing with proof thereof.