1In this Act
“child death” means the death of a person who is under the age of 19 years;(décès d’un enfant)
“child death review committee” means the child death review committee established by the Chief Coroner under subsection 42.1(1);(comité d’examen des décès d’enfants)
“Child, Youth and Senior Advocate” means Advocate as defined in the Child, Youth and Senior Advocate Act;(défenseur des enfants, des jeunes et des aînés)
“construction project site” means any building, structure, premises, water or land where construction is carried on;(chantier de construction)
“coroner” includes the Chief Coroner, a Deputy Chief Coroner and a regional coroner;(coroner)
“correctional institution” means a correctional institution as defined in the Corrections Act;(établissement de correction)
“death review committee” means the child death review committee or the domestic violence death review committee;(comité d’examen des décès)
“domestic violence death” means a death by homicide or suicide that results from conflict between parties to an intimate personal relationship, including the death of a child, another family member or a third party;(décès lié à la violence familiale)
“domestic violence death review committee” means the domestic violence death review committee established by the Chief Coroner under subsection 42.4(1);(comité d’examen des décès liés à la violence familiale )
“employer” means an employer as defined in the Occupational Health and Safety Act;(employeur )
“fish processing plant” means a place where fish are processed for sale;(usine de traitement de poisson)
“intimate personal relationship” means intimate personal relationship as defined in the Intimate Partner Violence Intervention Act;(relation personnelle intime)
“medical practitioner” means a person lawfully entitled to practice medicine in the Province and includes a medical officer of His Majesty’s Armed Forces serving in the Province;(médecin)
“mine” means a mine as defined in the Occupational Health and Safety Act;(mine)
“Minister” means the Minister of Public Safety and includes a person designated by the Minister to act on the Minister’s behalf;(Ministre)
“Office of the Attorney General” means the part of the Department of Justice and Office of the Attorney General that includes the Legal Services Branch, the Legislative Services Branch, the Family Crown Services Branch and the Public Prosecution Services Branch;(Cabinet du procureur général)
“peace officer” means
(agent de la paix)
(a)
the Chief Sheriff or a Deputy Chief Sheriff, regional sheriff, sheriff, deputy sheriff or sheriff’s officer,
(b)
a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
(c)
a police officer appointed under the
Police Act, and
(d)
for the purposes of section 5.1,
(i)
a person referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c),
(ii)
an officer of a correctional institution,
(iii)
an employee of the Correctional Service of Canada who is designated as a peace officer under the
Corrections and Conditional Release Act (Canada),
(iv)
an auxiliary police officer or an auxiliary police constable appointed under the
Police Act when accompanied by and acting under the supervision of a police officer, other than an auxiliary police officer, appointed under the
Police Act or a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
(v)
a person designated as a commercial vehicle inspector under the
Highway Act,
(vi)
a conservation officer appointed under the
Fish and Wildlife Act or the
Crown Lands and Forests Act,
(vii)
an assistant conservation officer appointed under the
Fish and Wildlife Act when accompanied by or acting under the immediate supervision of a conservation officer appointed under that Act,
(viii)
an off-road vehicle enforcement officer appointed under the
Off-Road Vehicle Act, and
(ix)
in national parks established under the
Canada National Parks Act (Canada), a park warden as defined in that Act;
“place of secure custody” means a place of secure custody as defined in the Custody and Detention of Young Persons Act;(lieu de garde en milieu fermé)
“place of temporary detention” means a place of temporary detention as defined in the Custody and Detention of Young Persons Act;(lieu de détention temporaire)
“psychiatric facility” means a psychiatric facility as defined in the Mental Health Act;(établissement psychiatrique)
“research” means research as defined in the Personal Health Information Privacy and Access Act.(recherche)
R.S., c.41, s.1; 1966, c.41, s.1; 1971, c.20, s.1; 1981, c.59, s.27; 1987, c.N-5.2, s.20; 1988, c.8, s.1; 1988, c.11, s.15; 1988, c.42, s.19; 1988, c.67, s.3; 1999, c.11, s.1; 2000, c.26, s.78; 2008, c.18, s.1; 2016, c.37, s.37; 2019, c.2, s.28; 2020, c.25, s.32; 2020, c.27, s.1; 2022, c.28, s.8; 2023, c.4, s.1; 2023, c.17, s.45