Federal Courts Act

Marginal note:Definitions

• 2 (1) In this Act,

  action for collision

  action pour collision

  action for collision includes an action for damage caused by one or more ships to another ship or ships or to property or persons on board another ship or ships as a result of carrying out or omitting to carry out a manoeuvre, or as a result of non-compliance with law, even though there has been no actual collision; (action pour collision)

  Associate Chief Justice

  juge en chef adjoint

  Associate Chief Justice means the Associate Chief Justice of the Court; (juge en chef adjoint)

  Canadian maritime law

  droit maritime canadien

  Canadian maritime law means the law that was administered by the Exchequer Court of Canada on its Admiralty side by virtue of the Admiralty Act, chapter A-1 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1970, or any other statute, or that would have been so administered if that Court had had, on its Admiralty side, unlimited jurisdiction in relation to maritime and admiralty matters, as that law has been altered by this Act or any other Act of Parliament; (droit maritime canadien)

  Chief Justice

  juge en chef

  Chief Justice means the Chief Justice of the Court; (juge en chef)

  Court

  Cour

  Court means the Federal Court of Canada continued by section 3; (Cour)

  Court of Appeal

  Cour d’appel ou Cour d’appel fédérale

  Court of Appeal means that division of the Court referred to in section 4 as the Federal Court — Appeal Division; (Cour d’appel ou Cour d’appel fédérale)

  Crown

  Couronne

  Crown means Her Majesty in right of Canada; (Couronne)

  federal board, commission or other tribunal

  office fédéral

  federal board, commission or other tribunal means any body or any person or persons having, exercising or purporting to exercise jurisdiction or powers conferred by or under an Act of Parliament or by or under an order made pursuant to a prerogative of the Crown, other than any such body constituted or established by or under a law of a province or any such person or persons appointed under or in accordance with a law of a province or under section 96 of the Constitution Act, 1867; (office fédéral)

  Federal Court of Appeal

  Cour d’appel ou Cour d’appel fédérale

  Federal Court of Appeal has the meaning given in this section to “Court of Appeal”; (Cour d’appel ou Cour d’appel fédérale)

  final judgment

  jugement définitif

  final judgment means any judgment or other decision that determines in whole or in part any substantive right of any of the parties in controversy in any judicial proceeding; (jugement définitif)

  judge

  juge

  judge means a judge of the Court and includes the Chief Justice and Associate Chief Justice; (juge)

  laws of Canada

  droit canadien

  laws of Canada has the same meaning as those words have in section 101 of the Constitution Act, 1867; (droit canadien)

  practice and procedure

  pratique et procédure

  practice and procedure includes evidence relating to matters of practice and procedure; (pratique et procédure)

  property

  biens

  property means property of any kind, whether real or personal or corporeal or incorporeal, and, without restricting the generality of the foregoing, includes a right of any kind, a share or a chose in action; (biens)

  relief

  réparation

  relief includes every species of relief, whether by way of damages, payment of money, injunction, declaration, restitution of an incorporeal right, return of land or chattels or otherwise; (réparation)

  Rules

  règles

  Rules means provisions of law and rules and orders made under section 46; (règles)

  ship

  navire

  ship means any vessel or craft designed, used or capable of being used solely or partly for navigation, without regard to method or lack of propulsion, and includes

  • (a) a ship in the process of construction from the time that it is capable of floating, and

  • (b) a ship that has been stranded, wrecked or sunk and any part of a ship that has broken up; (navire)

  Supreme Court

  Supreme Court[Repealed, 1990, c. 8, s. 1]

  Trial Division

  Section de première instance

  Trial Division means that division of the Court referred to in section 4 as the Federal Court — Trial Division. (Section de première instance)

• Marginal note:Senate and House of Commons

  (2) For greater certainty, the expression federal board, commission or other tribunal, as defined in subsection (1), does not include the Senate, the House of Commons or any committee or member of either House.