Criminal Code — C-46 2
y 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 payment to the Crown or a corporate body of any fee, rate or duty, whether or not it is in the possession of the Crown or of any person; ( biens ou propriété ) prosecutor means the Attorney General or, where the Attorney General does not intervene, means the person who institutes proceedings to which this Act applies, and includes counsel acting on behalf of either of them; ( poursuivant ) provincial court judge means a person appointed or authorized to act by or pursuant to an Act of the legislature of a province, by whatever title that person may be designated, who has the power and authority of two or more justices of the peace and includes the lawful deputy of that person; ( juge de la cour provinciale ) public department means a department of the Government of Canada or a branch thereof or a board, commission, corporation or other body that is an agent of Her Majesty in right of Canada; ( ministère public ) public officer includes (a) an officer of customs or excise, (b) an officer of the Canadian Forces, (c) an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and (d) any officer while the officer is engaged in enforcing the laws of Canada relating to revenue, customs, excise, trade or navigation; ( fonctionnaire public ) public stores includes any personal property that is under the care, supervision, administration or control of a public department or of any person in the service of a public department; ( approvisionnements publics ) radioactive material means any material that emits one or more types of ionizing radiation, such as alpha or beta particles, neutrons and gamma rays, and that is capable of, owing to its radiological or fissile properties, causing death, serious bodily harm or substantial damage to property or the environment; ( matière radioactive ) railway equipment means (a) any machine that is constructed for movement exclusively on lines of railway, whether or not the machine is capable of independent motion, or (b) any vehicle that is constructed for movement both on and off lines of railway while the adaptations of that vehicle for movement on lines of railway are in use; ( matériel ferroviaire ) recognizance means a recognizance in Form 32 entered into before a judge or justice; ( engagement ) release order means an order in Form 11 made by a judge as defined in section 493 or a justice; ( ordonnance de mise en liberté ) representative , in respect of an organization, means a director, partner, employee, member, agent or contractor of the organization; ( agent ) senior officer means a representative who plays an important role in the establishment of an organization’s policies or is responsible for managing an important aspect of the organization’s activities and, in the case of a body corporate, includes a director, its chief executive officer and its chief financial officer; ( cadre supérieur ) serious offence has the same meaning as in subsection 467.1(1); ( infraction grave ) steal means to commit theft; ( voler ) street racing [Repealed, 2018, c. 21, s. 12] summons means, unless a contrary intention appears, a summons in Form 6 issued by a judge or justice or by the chairperson of a Review Board as defined in subsection 672.1(1); ( sommation ) superior court of criminal jurisdiction means (a) in the Province of Ontario, the Court of Appeal or the Superior Court of Justice, (b) in the Province of Quebec, the Superior Court, (c) in the Provinces of Nova Scotia, British Columbia and Prince Edward Island, the Court of Appeal or the Supreme Court, (d) in the Provinces of New Brunswick, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the Court of Appeal or the Court of Queen’s Bench, (e) in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Yukon and the Northwest Territories, the Supreme Court, and (f) in Nunavut, the Nunavut Cou