Making or possessing explosives in suspicious circumstances
557 Making or possessing explosives in suspicious circumstances
Any person who makes, or knowingly has in his possession or under his control, any dangerous or explosive substance under such circumstances as to give rise to a reasonable suspicion that he is not making it, or does not have it in his possession or under his control for a lawful object, unless he can show that he made it, or had it in his possession or under his control for a lawful purpose, is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment for 14 years, and forfeiture of the dangerous or explosive substance.
Summary conviction penalty: imprisonment for 3 years and a fine of $36 000.
In this section explosive substance includes any materials for making any explosive substance; also any apparatus, machine, implement, or materials used or intended to be used or adapted for causing or aiding in causing any explosion in or with any explosive substance; also any part of any such apparatus, machine, or implement.
[Section 557 amended: No. 51 of 1992 s. 16(2); No. 70 of 2004 s. 32.]
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