Section 785 — Criminal Code: Definitions

In this Part, clerk of the appeal court includes a local clerk of the appeal court; ( greffier de la cour d’appel ) informant means a person who lays an information; ( dénonciateur ) information includes a count in an information, and a complaint in respect of which a justice is authorized by an Act of Parliament or an enactment made thereunder to make an order; ( dénonciation ) order means any order, including an order for the payment of money; ( ordonnance ) proceedings means proceedings in respect of offences that are declared by an Act of Parliament or an enactment made thereunder to be punishable on summary conviction, and proceedings where a justice is authorized by an Act of Parliament or an enactment made thereunder to make an order; ( procédures ) prosecutor means the Attorney General or, where the Attorney General does not intervene, the informant, and includes counsel or an agent acting on behalf of either of them; ( poursuivant ) sentence includes a declaration made under subsection 199(3), an order made under subsection 109(1) or 110(1), section 320.24, subsection 730(1) or 737(2.1) or (3) or section 738, 739, 742.1 or 742.3, a disposition made under section 731 or 732 or subsection 732.2(3) or (5), 742.4(3) or 742.6(9), an order made under subsection 16(1) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act , and an order made under subsection 94(1) of the Cannabis Act ; ( sentence , peine ou condamnation ) summary conviction court means a person who has jurisdiction in the territorial division where the subject-matter of the proceedings is alleged to have arisen and who is given jurisdiction over the proceedings by the enactment under which the proceedings are taken, is a justice or provincial court judge, where the enactment under which the proceedings are taken does not expressly give jurisdiction to any person or class of persons, or is a provincial court judge, where the enactment under which the proceedings are taken gives jurisdiction in respect thereof to two or more justices; ( cour des poursuites sommaires ) trial includes the hearing of a complaint. ( procès ou instruction )