Prisons and Reformatories Act

Marginal note:Definitions

• 2 (1) In this Act,

  designated authority

  autorité compétente

  designated authority means a person or organization designated under section 7.2; (autorité compétente)

  lieutenant governor

  lieutenant-gouverneur

  lieutenant governor means lieutenant governor in council; (lieutenant-gouverneur)

  Minister

  Minister[Repealed, 1995, c. 42, s. 79]

  prison

  prison

  prison means a place of confinement other than a penitentiary as defined in Part I of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act; (prison)

  prisoner

  prisonnier

  prisoner means a person, other than

  • (a) 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

  • (b) 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. (prisonnier)

• Marginal note:Custody

  (2) 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.