Definitions
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In this Act, “advance poll” means a poll held under section 72; (“vote par anticipation”) “assessment commissioner” in relation to a municipality means the assessment commissioner appointed under the Assessment Act for the assessment region in which the municipality is situate; (“commissaire à l’évaluation”) “assistant returning officer” means a person appointed by the clerk to assist in the conduct of the election; (“directeur adjoint du scrutin”) “assistant revising officer” means a person appointed by the clerk to assist in the revision of the list of electors; (“réviseur adjoint”) “candidate” means a person who is nominated for election to office in accordance with this Act and whose nomination is certified by the clerk; (“candidat”) “clerk” with respect to a municipality means the clerk of the municipality; (“secrétaire”) “Commission” means the Commission on Election Finances continued under the Election Finances Act; (“Commission”) “constable” means a police officer or a person appointed by the clerk or the deputy returning officer to maintain peace and order at an election; (“constable”) “corrupt practice” means any act or omission in connection with an election in respect of which an offence is provided under the Criminal Code (Canada) or which is a corrupt practice under this Act; (“manoeuvre frauduleuse”) “deputy returning officer” means a deputy returning officer appointed for a polling place under this Act; (“scrutateur”) “election” means an election governed by this Act; (“élection”) “election assistant” means a person appointed by the clerk to assist in the conduct of an election; (“membre du personnel électoral suppléant”) “election year” means a year in which a regular election is held in accordance with this Act; (“année d’élection”) “elector” means a person entitled under this Act to vote in an election; (“électeur”) “enumeration” means the latest enumeration under the Assessment Act; (“recensement”) “enumeration list” means the most recent list of electors prepared by the assessment commissioner under section 21; (“liste de recensement”) “holiday” means a holiday as defined in the Interpretation Act; (“jour férié”) “local board” means a local board as defined in the Municipal Affairs Act; (“conseil local”) “locality” means territory without municipal organization that is deemed a district municipality under the Education Act; (“localité”) “Minister” means the Minister of Municipal Affairs; (“ministre”) “municipality” means a city, town, village or township; (“municipalité”) “new election” means an election other than a regular election; (“nouvelle élection”) “nomination day” means the last day for filing nominations; (“jour de déclaration de candidature”) “normal office hours” means those days and hours that an office is open to the public; (“heures normales de bureau”) “oath” includes an affirmation; (“serment”) “office” means an office, the election to which is governed by this Act; (“poste”) “owner or tenant” means a person enumerated as owner or tenant of land separately assessed or liable to be separately assessed under the Assessment Act; (“propriétaire ou locataire”) “polling day” means the day on which the poll is to be taken under this Act; (“jour du scrutin”) “polling list” means the list of electors for each polling subdivision revised and certified by the clerk; (“liste électorale”) “polling place” means the area designated by the clerk in which the facilities for the conduct of the poll are situate; (“bureau de vote”) “polling subdivision” means a polling subdivision established by the clerk under this Act; (“section de vote”) “preliminary list” means an enumeration list of electors which has been corrected under section 26 and printed or reproduced under clause 27(a); (“liste électorale préliminaire”) “prescribed” means prescribed by the Minister; (“prescrit”) “public school elector” means an elector who is not a separate school elector or an elector of the public sector or the Roman Catholic sector of The Ottawa-Carleton French-language School Board; (“électeur des écoles publiques”) “quorum” means a majority of the members of council or of a local board or the trustees of a police village, as the case may be; (“quorum”) “regional municipality” means a regional, metropolitan and district municipality and the County of Oxford; (“municipalité régionale”) “regular election” means an election required to be held under section 11 of this Act; (“élection ordinaire”) “scrutineer” means any person appointed as a scrutineer by a candidate or by a council under section 7; (“représentant”) “separate school elector” means an elector who is a Roman Catholic separate school supporter or who is a Roman Catholic and the spouse of such supporter and any person entitled to be a separate school elector under the Education Act; (“électeur des écoles séparées”) “spouse” means a person of the opposite sex, (a) to whom the person is married, or (b) with whom the person is living outside marriage in a conjugal relationship, if the two persons, (i) have cohabited for at least one year, (ii) are together the parents of a child, or (iii) have together entered into a cohabitation agreement under section 53 of the Family Law Act. (“conjoint”) R.S.O. 1990, c.M.53, s.1.