Criminal Code, S.C. 1953-54, c. 51, s. 134.
[Instruction to jury.]
134. Notwithstanding anything in this Act or any other Act of the Parliament of Canada, where an accused is charged with an offence under section 136,
137, subsection (1) or (2) of section 138 or subsection (1) of section 141, the judge shall, if the only evidence that implicates the accused is the
evidence, given under oath, of the female person in respect of whom the offence is alleged to have been committed and that evidence is not corroborated
in a material particular by evidence that implicates the accused, instruct the jury that it is not safe to find the accused guilty in the absence of such
corroboration, but that they are entitled to find the accused guilty if they are satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that her evidence is true.
Criminal Code, R.S.C. 1970, c. C-34, s. 142.
[Instruction to jury]
142. Notwithstanding anything in this Act or any other Act of the Parliament of Canada, where an accused is charged with an offence under section 144,
145, subsection 146(1) or (2) or subsection 149(1), the judge shall, if the only evidence that implicates the accused is the evidence, given under oath,
of the female person in respect of whom the offence is alleged to have been committed and that evidence is not corroborated in a material particular by
evidence that implicates the accused, instruct the jury that it is not safe to find the accused guilty in the absence of such corroboration, but that they
are entitled to find the accused guilty if they are satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that her evidence is true. 1953-54, c. 51, s. 134.
Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1975, S.C. 1974-75-76, c. 93, s. 8.
[Repealed.]
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