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Interpretation

2. In these Regulations "accident" means
 
 (a)
a chance event occasioned by a physical or natural cause,
 
 (b)
a willful or intentional act that is not the act of the inmate who suffers therefrom, or
 
 (c)
environmental conditions in a place where an industrial trade, process or occupation is carried on and includes an occupational disease; (accident)
  "Act" means the Penitentiary Act; (Loi)
  "child" means the child of an inmate or discharged inmate that
 
 (a)
is under the age of sixteen years,
 
 (b)
is sixteen years of age or over if he is an invalid,
 
 (c)
is sixteen years of age or over but under the age of twenty one years if he is a full-time student at a school or university and includes a child who is adopted or illegitimate or in respect of whom an inmate or a discharged inmate stands in loco parentis; (enfant)
  "claimant" means a person to whom the Minister may make payments of compensation pursuant to section 3 of these Regulations: (requerant)
  "Commission" means the Canadian Pension Commission; (Commission) "common-law spouse" means a person who has cohabited with another person, although not legally married to that other person, and who has been recognized as the husband or wife of that other person in the community in which they have cohabited; (conjoint de common law)
  "day parole" has the same meaning as in the Parole Act; (liberation conditionnelle de jour)
  "dependent" means a dependent child or surviving spouse of an inmate or discharged inmate; (personne a charge) [SOR/83-687]
  "dependent child" or "surviving spouse" means a surviving child or surviving spouse of an inmate or discharged inmate whose financial support
 
 (a)
was obtained substantially from the inmate immediately before the inmate's incarceration, or
 
 (b)
was, at the time of the death of the discharged inmate, obtained substantially from the discharged inmate; (enfant a charge or conjoint qui survit) [SOR/83-687]
  "discharged inmate" means an inmate who has been released from a penitentiary as a result of the expiration of his sentence or the operation of remission or who has been released on parole other than day parole; (detenu libere)
  "invalid" means physically or mentally incapable of earning income through employment; (invalide)
  "mandatory supervision" means mandatory supervision within the meaning of section 15 of the Parole Act; (surveillance obligatoire)
  "medical care" means such care as is reasonably necessary to diagnose, cure or give relief from physical disability and includes:
 
 (a)
treatment by a general medical practitioner or a dentist,
 
 (b)
in-patient and out-patient care and maintenance in a hospital or a clinic,
 
 (c)
therapeutic and work-related training and rehabilitation services, and
 
 (d)
the provision of drugs, medical and surgical supplies, prosthetic appliances and eye glasses; (soins medicaux)
  "minimum wage" means the minimum wage that is required to be paid from time to time to persons seventeen years of age or over as set out in Part III of the Canada Labour Code; (salaire minimum)
  "normal program of a penitentiary" includes
 
 (a)
participation in any work activity sponsored, approved or permitted by the Service or in any other activity required by the Service excluding participation in any recreational or social activities,
 
 (b)
attendance at a training course that is approved by the, Service for the inmate concerned, and
 
 (c)
being transported by transportation arranged for or provided for by the Service in connection with the activities described in paragraph (a) or (b),
  but does not include any activity of an inmate who is on parole other than day palrole or who has been released on mandatory supervision; (programme ordinaire d'un penitencier)
  "occupational disease" means any disease the peculiarities or characteristics of which relate to a particular industrial process, trade or occupation; (maladie professionnelle)
  "parole" means authority granted under the Parole Act to an inmate to be at large during the term of his imprisonment; (Iiberation conditionnelle)
  "physically disabled" includes having an occupational disease; (incapacite physique)
  "spouse" means the husband or wife of an inmate or discharged inmate and includes a person who has cohabited with an inmate or discharged inmate as his common-law spouse for
 
 (a)
the six years immediately preceding the incarceration of the inmate or discharged inmate,
 
 (b)
the six years immediately preceding the death of the inmate or discharged inmate, excluding the time, if any, of his incarceration,
 
 (c)
the two years immediately preceding the incarceration of the inmate or discharged inmate, where there is a child of the common-law relationship, or
 
 (d)
the two years immediately preceding the death of the inmate or discharged inmate, excluding the time, if any of his incarceration, where there is a child of the common-law relationship. (conjoint)
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