Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations — 2
Interpretation 2 The definitions in this section apply in these Regulations. Act means the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act . ( Loi ) administration fee means a portion of the average cost incurred by Her Majesty in right of Canada in respect of foreign nationals referred to in subsection 279(1), and includes the costs relating to (a) examinations; (b) detention; (c) investigations and admissibility hearings in respect of inadmissible foreign nationals; (d) fingerprinting, photographing and the verification of documents with other governments and national or international police agencies; (e) translation and interpretation; and (f) proceedings before the Immigration Division. ( frais administratifs ) agent [Repealed, SOR/2016-37, s. 2] authorized representative [Repealed, SOR/2011-129, s. 1] Canadian citizen means a citizen referred to in subsection 3(1) of the Citizenship Act . ( citoyen canadien ) Canadian Language Benchmarks means, for the English language, the Canadian Language Benchmarks: English as a Second Language for Adults developed by the Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks, as amended from time to time. ( Canadian Language Benchmarks ) commercial transporter means a transporter who operates a commercial vehicle. ( transporteur commercial ) commercial vehicle means a vehicle that is used for commercial purposes. ( véhicule commercial ) conjugal partner means, in relation to a sponsor, a foreign national residing outside Canada who is in a conjugal relationship with the sponsor and has been in that relationship for a period of at least one year. ( partenaire conjugal ) COVID-19 means coronovirus disease 2019. ( COVID-19 ) Department means the Department of Citizenship and Immigration. ( ministère ) dependent child , in respect of a parent, means a child who (a) has one of the following relationships with the parent, namely, (i) is the biological child of the parent, if the child has not been adopted by a person other than the spouse or common-law partner of the parent, or (ii) is the adopted child of the parent; and (b) is in one of the following situations of dependency, namely, (i) is less than 22 years of age and is not a spouse or common-law partner, or (ii) is 22 years of age or older and has depended substantially on the financial support of the parent since before attaining the age of 22 years and is unable to be financially self-supporting due to a physical or mental condition. ( enfant à charge ) guardianship [Repealed, SOR/2005-61, s. 1] Hague Convention on Adoption means the Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in respect of Inter-Country Adoption that was concluded on May 29, 1993 and came into force on May 1, 1995. ( Convention sur l’adoption ) Indian means any person registered as an Indian under the Indian Act . ( Indien ) in-flight security officer means a person who is on board a commercial passenger aircraft and whose duty it is to protect the passengers and the members of the crew as well as the aircraft itself. ( agent de sécurité aérien ) in-transit passenger means a person who arrives by aircraft at a Canadian airport from another country for the sole purpose of reboarding their flight or boarding a connecting flight departing from that airport to a country other than Canada. ( passager en transit ) in-transit preclearance passenger means an in-transit passenger who is subject to a preclearance procedure in accordance with the Preclearance Act, 2016 . ( passager en transit bénéficiant d’un précontrôle ) live-in caregiver [Repealed, SOR/2017-78, s. 1] marriage , in respect of a marriage that took place outside Canada, means a marriage that is valid both under the laws of the jurisdiction where it took place and under Canadian law. ( mariage ) minimum necessary income means the amount identified, in the most recent edition of the publication concerning low income cut-offs that is published annually by Statistics Canada under the Statistics Act , for urban areas of re