Criminal Code — C-46 2
th the commission of such an offence, or (c) that is intended to be used for committing such an offence; ( bien infractionnel ) offender means a person who has been determined by a court to be guilty of an offence, whether on acceptance of a plea of guilty or on a finding of guilt; ( contrevenant ) offensive weapon has the same meaning as weapon ; ( arme offensive ) organization means (a) a public body, body corporate, society, company, firm, partnership, trade union or municipality, or (b) an association of persons that (i) is created for a common purpose, (ii) has an operational structure, and (iii) holds itself out to the public as an association of persons; ( organisation ) peace officer includes (a) a mayor, warden, reeve, sheriff, deputy sheriff, sheriff’s officer and justice of the peace, (b) a member of the Correctional Service of Canada who is designated as a peace officer pursuant to Part I of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act , and a warden, deputy warden, instructor, keeper, jailer, guard and any other officer or permanent employee of a prison other than a penitentiary as defined in Part I of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act , (c) a police officer, police constable, bailiff, constable, or other person employed for the preservation and maintenance of the public peace or for the service or execution of civil process, (c.1) a designated officer as defined in section 2 of the Integrated Cross-border Law Enforcement Operations Act , when (i) participating in an integrated cross-border operation, as defined in section 2 of that Act, or (ii) engaging in an activity incidental to such an operation, including travel for the purpose of participating in the operation and appearances in court arising from the operation, (d) an officer within the meaning of the Customs Act , the Excise Act or the Excise Act, 2001 , or a person having the powers of such an officer, when performing any duty in the administration of any of those Acts, (d.1) an officer authorized under subsection 138(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act , (e) a person designated as a fishery guardian under the Fisheries Act when performing any duties or functions under that Act and a person designated as a fishery officer under the Fisheries Act when performing any duties or functions under that Act or the Coastal Fisheries Protection Act , (f) the pilot in command of an aircraft (i) registered in Canada under regulations made under the Aeronautics Act , or (ii) leased without crew and operated by a person who is qualified under regulations made under the Aeronautics Act to be registered as owner of an aircraft registered in Canada under those regulations, while the aircraft is in flight, and (g) officers and non-commissioned members of the Canadian Forces who are (i) appointed for the purposes of section 156 of the National Defence Act , or (ii) employed on duties that the Governor in Council, in regulations made under the National Defence Act for the purposes of this paragraph, has prescribed to be of such a kind as to necessitate that the officers and non-commissioned members performing them have the powers of peace officers; ( agent de la paix ) prison includes a penitentiary, common jail, public or reformatory prison, lock-up, guard-room or other place in which persons who are charged with or convicted of offences are usually kept in custody; ( prison ) property includes (a) real and personal property of every description and deeds and instruments relating to or evidencing the title or right to property, or giving a right to recover or receive money or goods, (b) property originally in the possession or under the control of any person, and any property into or for which it has been converted or exchanged and anything acquired at any time by the conversion or exchange, and (c) any postal card, postage stamp or other stamp issued or prepared for issue under the authority of Parliament or the legislature of a province for the paym