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 "designated authority" means a person or organization designated under section 7.2;
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| "lieutenant governor" means lieutenant governor in council; |
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| "Minister"
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| "prison" means a place of confinement other than a penitentiary as defined in Part I of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act;
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| "prisoner" means a person, other than
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a child within the meaning of the Juvenile Delinquents Act, chapter J-3 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1970, as it read immediately prior to April 2, 1984, with respect to whom no order pursuant to section 9 of that Act has been made, or | ||
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a young person within the meaning of the Young Offenders Act with respect to whom no order pursuant to section 16 of that Act has been made, | ||
| who is confined in a prison pursuant to a sentence for an offence under an Act of Parliament or any regulations made thereunder, or pursuant to a committal for failure or refusal to enter into a recognizance under section 810, 810.1 or 810.2 of the Criminal Code. | |||
| (2) Custody - Where a prisoner is temporarily outside a prison but under the direct charge, control or supervision of an officer or employee of a prison, the prisoner is in custody for the purposes of this Act and any other Act of Parliament. | |||
| [RS, 1985, cP-20, s2; RS, 1985, c35 (2nd Supp.), s29; 1992, c20, s216; 1995, c42, s79; 1997, c2, s1, c17, s39] | |||
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