Corrections and Conditional Release Act — C-44.6 99
Definitions 99 (1) In this Part, Board means the Parole Board of Canada continued by section 103 and includes a provincial parole board where it exercises jurisdiction in respect of parole as provided by section 112 or in respect of which any other provision of this Part is, by virtue of section 113, rendered applicable; ( Commission ) Commissioner has the same meaning as in Part I; ( commissaire ) community-based residential facility has the same meaning as in subsection 66(3); ( établissement résidentiel communautaire ) day parole means the authority granted to an offender by the Board or a provincial parole board to be at large during the offender’s sentence in order to prepare the offender for full parole or statutory release, the conditions of which require the offender to return to a penitentiary, community-based residential facility, provincial correctional facility or other location each night or at another specified interval; ( semi-liberté ) full parole means the authority granted to an offender by the Board or a provincial parole board to be at large during the offender’s sentence; ( libération conditionnelle totale ) Indigenous has the same meaning as in Part I; ( autochtone ) institutional head has the same meaning as in Part I; ( Version anglaise seulement ) long-term supervision has the same meaning as in Part I; ( surveillance de longue durée ) Minister has the same meaning as in Part I; ( ministre ) offender means (a) a person, other than a young person within the meaning of the Youth Criminal Justice Act , who is under a sentence imposed before or after the coming into force of this section (i) pursuant to an Act of Parliament or, to the extent that this Part applies, pursuant to a provincial Act, or (ii) on conviction for criminal or civil contempt of court if the sentence does not include a requirement that the offender return to that court, or (b) a young person within the meaning of the Youth Criminal Justice Act with respect to whom an order, committal or direction under section 76, 89, 92 or 93 of that Act has been made, but does not include a person whose only sentence is a sentence being served intermittently pursuant to section 732 of the Criminal Code ; ( délinquant ) parole means full parole or day parole; ( libération conditionnelle ) parole supervisor has the meaning assigned by the definition staff member in subsection 2(1) or means a person entrusted by the Service with the guidance and supervision of an offender; ( surveillant de liberté conditionnelle ) penitentiary has the same meaning as in Part I; ( pénitencier ) provincial parole board means the Ontario Board of Parole, la Commission québécoise des libérations conditionnelles or any other parole board established by the legislature or the lieutenant governor in council of a province; ( commission provinciale ) regulations means regulations made by the Governor in Council pursuant to section 156; ( règlement ou réglementaire ) sentence has the same meaning as in Part I; ( peine ou peine d’emprisonnement ) serious harm means severe physical injury or severe psychological damage; ( dommage grave ) Service has the same meaning as in Part I; ( Service ) statutory release means release from imprisonment subject to supervision before the expiration of an offender’s sentence, to which an offender is entitled under section 127; ( libération d’office ) statutory release date means the date determined in accordance with section 127; ( date de libération d’office ) unescorted temporary absence means an unescorted temporary absence from penitentiary authorized under section 116; ( permission de sortir sans escorte ) victim has the same meaning as in Part I; ( victime ) working day has the same meaning as in Part I. ( jour ouvrable ) References to expiration of sentence (2) For the purposes of this Part, a reference to the expiration according to law of the sentence of an offender shall be read as a reference to the day on which the sentence expires, w