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s. 243
PART XV — Administration and Enforcement · Offences and Punishment
Power to decrease punishment
Not yet annotated · Text current to 2026-06-21 · section last amended 2004-08-31
Current text
Notwithstanding the Criminal Code or any other statute or law in force on June 30, 1948, the court has, in any prosecution or proceeding under this Act, no power to impose less than the minimum fine or imprisonment fixed by this Act or to suspend sentence.
Source: Justice Laws Website. Not an official version.
Historic text
This section has not been amended since the start of the point-in-time record on 31 August 2004.
Earlier versions: Justice Laws point-in-time versions of the Act (from 31 August 2004), and CanLII (under “Versions”). On Justice Laws, each version of section 243 links to the one before it.
Enacting and amending legislation
- 1970-71-72, c. 63, s. 1“243”
Text before 2004 is found in the annual Statutes of Canada cited above. Application and coming-into-force provisions are not part of the consolidation; see the amending Acts.
Cross-references
No other section of the Act refers to this section, and it refers to no other section.
References are generated from the statutory text and list other sections of the Act only.
Citation
Income Tax Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.), s. 243.