Interpretation Act
Consolidated act- Citation
- S.N.W.T. 2017, c.19
- Source
- Unofficial consolidation PDF (justice.gov.nt.ca)
This is an unofficial reading copy parsed from the Department of Justice consolidation PDF above — itself an office consolidation, not an official statement of the law. The authoritative text is in the Revised Statutes of the Northwest Territories, 1988 and the annual Statutes volumes.
- s.20 amended by Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2018
- s.21 amended by An Act to Amend the Employment Standards Act, No. 2
- s.23 amended by Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2018
- s.38 amended by Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2018
- s.sched_1 amended by Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2018
- s.sched_1 amended by Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2022
- Architects Act, s.4
- Behchoko Ko Gha K'aodee Order, s.8
- Chartered Professional Accountants Act, s.4
- Child and Family Services Act, s.92
- Daylight Saving Time Regulations, s.1
- Egg Marketing Plan Establishment Regulations, s.3 → #sec_17__para_d
- Financial Administration Act, s.155 → #sec_28__subsec_1
- Fort Resolution Housing Authority Order, s.8
- Fort Simpson Housing Authority Order, s.8
- Fort Smith Housing Authority Order, s.9
- Hay River Housing Authority Order, s.9
- Housing Northwest Territories Act, s.10
- Inuvik Housing Authority Order, s.8
- Legal Profession Act, s.7
- Lutselk'e Housing Authority Order, s.8
- National Indigenous Peoples Day Act, s.3 → #sec_21__para_a
- Norman Wells Housing Authority Order, s.8
- Northwest Territories Teachers' Association Act, s.2
- Rules of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories - Part One, s.712
- Somba Ke' Housing Authority Order, s.8
- Wills Act, s.10 → #sec_28__subsec_1
- Yellowknife Housing Authority Order, s.9
- Youth Justice Act, s.92 → #sec_28__subsec_1
The Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly, enacts as follows:
INTERPRETATION
Lapsed enactments
1.For the purpose of this Act, an enactment that has expired or otherwise ceased to have effect is deemed to have been repealed.
APPLICATION
Application to all enactments
2.This Act applies to every enactment, whenever enacted, unless a contrary intention appears in this Act or in the enactment.
Government bound
3.This Act binds the Government of the Northwest Territories.
COMMENCEMENT OF ENACTMENTS
Date of commence- ment of Act
4.(1) An Act or portion of an Act comes into force on the date or in the manner specified in the Act.
(2) If an Act is silent as to the date or manner of the commencement of the Act or a portion of the Act, the Act or portion comes into force on the date the Act receives assent.
(3) A provision to bring an Act or a portion of an Act into force on a specified date or in a specified manner comes into force on the date of assent to the Act.
(4) A regulation and a statutory instrument comes into force in accordance with the Statutory Instruments Act.
Effective time of commence- ment of enactment
5.(1) An enactment takes effect at the beginning of the day on which it comes into force.
(2) An enactment that is repealed and replaced ceases to have effect at the time the new enactment comes into force.
(3) An enactment that is repealed and not replaced, or that expires or otherwise ceases to have effect on a specified day, ceases to have effect at the end of that day.
Fixing commence- ment of Act
6.The authority to make an order fixing a day on which an Act comes into force may be exercised in respect of any provision of the Act, and orders may be made at different times for different provisions.
Exercise of authority before commence- ment
7.(1) If an enactment that is not in force confers the authority to make a regulation, to exercise any other power or to carry out any duty, that authority may be exercised before the enactment comes into force.
(2) Authority exercised under subsection (1) has no effect until the enactment comes into force, except to the extent necessary to make the enactment effective on its coming into force.
OPERATION
Government of the Northwest Territories not bound
8.No enactment binds the Government of the Northwest Territories or affects the Government of the Northwest Territories or its rights and prerogatives except to the extent stated in the enactment.
Use of forms
9.A deviation from a form set out in or prescribed by an enactment does not invalidate the form used if the deviation
(a) does not affect the substance; and
(b) is not likely to mislead.
PRINCIPLES OF INTERPRETATION
Applying in circumstances
10.An enactment shall be interpreted as applying to circumstances as they arise.
Preamble
11.(1) The preamble of an enactment is part of the enactment, and is intended to assist in explaining its meaning and objectives.
(2) The headings and sub-headings in an enactment are part of the enactment, and can be taken into consideration as interpretative aids.
(3) The following are not part of an enactment, but are inserted for convenience of reference only:
(a) tables of contents;
(b) marginal notes;
(c) information notes providing legislative history.
Application of expressions in statutes to regulations
12.A word or expression used in a regulation has the same meaning as in the Act under which the regulation is made, whether or not the word or expression is defined in that Act.
Gender specific references
13.(1) In an enactment, a gender-specific word or expression refers to any gender and includes corporations.
(2) In an enactment, a word or expression in the singular includes the plural, and a word or expression in the plural includes the singular.
(3) In an enactment, the definition of a word or expression applies correspondingly to other parts of speech and grammatical forms of the word or expression.
(4) In an enactment, metric units of measurement and their symbols have the meaning given to them in Schedule I of the Weights and Measures Act (Canada).
(5) In an enactment, a reference to both the provinces and Yukon, whatever the specific form of the reference, includes Nunavut.
(6) In an enactment, a reference by name to a country, place, body, corporation, society, officer, functionary, person, party or thing, means the country, place, body, corporation, society, officer, functionary, person, party or thing to which the name is commonly applied, even though the name is not the formal or extended designation of it.
General definitions
14.(1) In an enactment, a word or expression listed in the Schedule to this Act has the meaning assigned to it.
(2) The interpretation provisions of the Charter Communities Act, Cities, Towns and Villages Act, Hamlets Act and Tåîchô Community Government Act, except for the definitions "municipal corporation" and "municipality", apply to all enactments relating to charter communities, cities, towns, villages, hamlets and Tåîchô community governments respectively.
CORPORATIONS
Corporate rights and powers
15.Words in an enactment establishing or continuing a corporation shall be interpreted as
(a) vesting in the corporation the authority and capacity to
(i) sue and be sued in its corporate name,
(ii) contract and be contracted with by its corporate name,
(iii) have a common seal and to alter or change that seal,
(iv) acquire, hold and use real or personal property, and to dispose of that property,
(v) regulate its own procedure and business, and
(vi) have perpetual succession;
(b) vesting in a majority of its members the power to bind the others; and
(c) exempting from personal liability, for its debts, obligations or acts, individual members of the corporation who do not contravene that enactment.
JUDICIAL OFFICERS
Powers of judges and court officers
16.(1) If an enactment confers judicial or quasi-judicial powers on a judge or officer of a court,
(a) the judge or officer, in exercising those powers, does so in his or her official capacity and as representing that court; and
(b) the judge or officer may for the purpose of performing the duties imposed on him or her by the enactment, subject to the provisions of the enactment, exercise the powers he or she possesses as a judge or officer of that court.
(2) Without restricting subsection (1), if an enactment provides for an appeal from the decision of a person, board, commission or other body to a court or judge, an appeal lies from the decision of the court or judge as in the case of any other proceeding in that court or in the court of which the judge is a member.
PUBLIC OFFICERS
Appointments of public officers
17.(1) A public officer appointed under the authority of an enactment holds office during pleasure only, unless a contrary intention is expressed in the enactment or the instrument of appointment.
(2) An appointment is effective at the beginning of the day on which the appointment is to take effect.
(3) If an instrument of appointment specifies the day on which the appointment is to take effect, the specified day may not be more than 60 days before the day on which the instrument is made.
(4) The termination of an appointment takes effect
(a) in the case where a day is specified in the instrument of appointment, at the end of that day; and
(b) in the case where a day is specified in an instrument of revocation, at the beginning of that day.
Included powers: public officers
18.The power conferred by an enactment to appoint a public officer includes the power to
(a) fix the term of office of the public officer;
(b) terminate the appointment of the public officer or remove or suspend the public officer;
(c) reappoint or reinstate the public officer;
(d) fix, vary or terminate the public officer’s remuneration and expenses;
(e) appoint a deputy of the public officer to perform and exercise some or all of the duties and powers of the public officer, as specified in the instrument of appointment; and
(f) appoint a person to act temporarily in the stead of the public officer, whether or not the office is vacant.
Power to act for Ministers
19.(1) A power conferred or a duty imposed by an enactment on a particular Minister may be exercised or performed by
(a) another Minister acting for the Minister;
(b) the applicable Deputy Minister; and
(c) a person employed, in a capacity appropriate to the exercise or performance of the power or duty, in the department over which the Minister presides.
(2) A power conferred or a duty imposed by an enactment on the Commissioner may be exercised or performed by the Minister who presides over the department responsible for the administration of the enactment.
(3) A power conferred or a duty imposed by an enactment on a public officer other than a Minister may be exercised or performed by
(a) a deputy of the public officer, subject to the instrument appointing the deputy;
(b) a person appointed to act in the stead of the public officer; and
(c) a person employed in the public officer’s department in a capacity appropriate to the exercise or performance of the power or duty.
(4) For greater certainty, if a power or duty referred to in subsection (1) or (3) has been delegated to another person, whether by name or by office, those subsections do not apply in respect of that power or duty.
(5) Notwithstanding this section, a power to make regulations conferred by an Act may only be exercised by the Minister or other person upon whom the power is conferred.
TIME
Mountain Standard Time
20.(1) Subject to subsection (2), a reference in an enactment to time is a reference to Mountain Standard Time, seven hours behind Coordinated Universal Time.
(2) During the prescribed Daylight Saving Time period, a reference in an enactment to time is a reference to Daylight Saving Time, or one hour in advance of Mountain Standard Time. SNWT 2018,c.18,s.18(6).
Holiday
21.A reference in an enactment to "holiday" is a reference to
(a) New Year’s Day;
(b) Good Friday;
(c) Easter Monday;
(d) Victoria Day;
(e) National Indigenous Peoples Day;
(f) Canada Day;
(g) the first Monday in August;
(h) Labour Day;
(i) National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, which is observed on September 30;
(j) Thanksgiving Day;
(k) Remembrance Day;
(l) Christmas Day;
(m) Boxing Day;
(n) any day designated as a public holiday by an Act of the Northwest Territories or an Act of Canada or by order or proclamation of the Commissioner or the Governor General; and
(o) the following Monday, whenever one of the dates specified in paragraphs (a) to (n) falls on a Saturday or Sunday.
Calculation of Time
Time period: minimum number of days
22.(1) A period of time between two events that is described by a reference to a minimum number of days between those events is calculated by excluding the days on which the initial and concluding events occur.
(2) A period of time between two events that is not described by reference to a minimum number of days between those events is calculated by
(a) excluding the day on which the initial event occurs; and
(b) including the day on which the concluding event occurs.
(3) A period of time described as beginning or ending at or on a specified day, includes that day.
(4) A period of time described as continuing to or until a specified day, includes that day.
(5) A period of time described as beginning from or after or ending before a specified day, excludes that day.
(6) The rules set out in this section apply equally to the calculation of a period of time described in terms of weeks, months or years.
(7) A period of time described as consisting of a number of months from or after a specified day, is calculated by
(a) excluding the month in which the specified day falls; and
(b) including the day in the concluding month having the same calendar number as the specified day, or if the month has no day with that number, the last day of the month.
(8) A period of time described as consisting of a number of months before a specified day, is calculated by
(a) excluding the month in which the specified day falls; and
(b) including the day in the initial month having the same calendar number as the specified day, or if the month has no day with that number, the last day of the month.
(9) When the time limit for doing an act would otherwise expire or fall on a day for which there is no calendar number in a month, the time limit ends on the last day of that month.
(10) When the time limit for doing an act expires or falls on a holiday, the time limit is extended to the next day that is not a holiday.
(11) When the time limit for registering, filing or submitting a document or doing any other act in an office expires or falls on a day the office is not open during its regular operating hours, the time limit is extended to include the next day the office is open.
REFERENCES
Citation of statutes
23.(1) In an enactment, an Act of the Northwest Territories, Canada, a province or another territory may be cited by reference to
(a) its title or its short title; or
(b) the number of the chapter of the Revised Statutes, or of the Statutes for the calendar year in which the Act was passed.
(2) The abbreviation "RSNWT" may be used in the citation of an Act that is included in a revision of the statutes of the Northwest Territories.
(3) The abbreviation "SNWT" may be used in the citation of an Act that is not included in a revision of the statutes of the Northwest Territories. SNWT 2018,c.18,s.8(10).
Citation of regulations
24.(1) In an enactment, a regulation of the Northwest Territories, Canada, a province or another territory may be cited by reference to
(a) its title; or
(b) the number of the chapter of the Revised Regulations, or of the registration number for the year in which the regulation was made.
(2) The abbreviation "RRNWT" may be used in the citation of a regulation that was included in a revision of the regulations of the Northwest Territories.
Citations or references of amended enactments
25.In an enactment, a citation of or reference to an enactment of the Northwest Territories, Canada, a province or another territory is a citation of or reference to the other enactment as amended from time to time.
References in enactments to regulations
26.A reference in an enactment to regulations is a reference to regulations made under the enactment in which the reference occurs.
REPEAL AND AMENDMENT
Effect of repeal
27.(1) The repeal of an enactment in whole or in part does not
(a) revive an enactment not in force or a law not existing immediately before the time when the repeal takes effect;
(b) affect the previous operation of the repealed enactment;
(c) affect any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued, accruing or incurred under the repealed enactment;
(d) affect a contravention of the repealed enactment, or a penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of or under that enactment; or
(e) affect an investigation, proceeding, prosecution or remedy in respect of
(i) a right, privilege, obligation or liability described in paragraph (c), or
(ii) a contravention, penalty, forfeiture or punishment referred to in paragraph (d).
(2) An investigation, proceeding, prosecution or remedy described in paragraph (1)(e) may be commenced, continued, or enforced, as the case may be, as if the enactment had not been repealed.
(3) Subject to subsection 28(3), a penalty, forfeiture or punishment referred to in paragraph (1)(d) may be imposed as if the enactment had not been repealed.
Definitions
28.(1) In this section,
"former enactment" means an enactment that was repealed; (texte antérieur)
"new enactment" means an enactment that is substituted for an enactment that was repealed. (nouveau texte)
(2) If an enactment is repealed in whole or in part and another enactment is substituted for the former enactment,
(a) every person authorized to act under the former enactment may continue to act under the new enactment for the remainder of the person’s term, if any, or until another person is authorized to act;
(b) every proceeding commenced under the former enactment shall be continued under and in conformity with the new enactment to the extent that is consistent with the new enactment;
(c) the procedure established by the new enactment shall be followed to the extent that it can be reasonably adapted
(i) in the recovery or enforcement of penalties and forfeitures incurred under the former enactment,
(ii) in the enforcement of rights existing or accruing under the former enactment, and
(iii) in a proceeding in relation to matters that arose under the former enactment before the repeal;
(d) regulations made under the former enactment, to the extent that they are consistent with the new enactment, remain in force and are deemed to have been made under the new enactment, until they are repealed or others made in their stead; and
(e) every bond and security given by a person appointed by or under the former enactment remains in force, and all offices, books, papers and things made or used under the former enactment shall continue to be used as before the repeal to the extent that they are consistent with the substituted provisions.
(3) If a penalty, forfeiture or punishment in a former enactment is reduced or mitigated by a new enactment, the penalty, forfeiture or punishment imposed by the new enactment shall be applied in respect of a matter that occurred under the former enactment.
(4) A reference in an enactment to a former enactment shall be interpreted as a reference to the provisions of the new enactment relating to the same subject matter as the former enactment, but if there are no provisions in the new enactment relating to the same subject matter, the former enactment shall be interpreted as being unrepealed to the extent necessary to give effect to the referring enactment.
(5) If an enactment of Canada, a province or another territory is repealed in whole or in part and other provisions are substituted for it, a reference in an enactment of the Northwest Territories to the repealed enactment shall be interpreted as a reference to the substituted provisions relating to the same subject matter as the repealed provision or enactment.
Implications of repeal or amendment
29.(1) The amendment or repeal of an enactment does not imply
(a) a declaration as to the previous state of the law; or
(b) that the enactment or part of the enactment had been in force.
(2) Neither the re-enactment in the same words, nor the amendment of an enactment, implies adoption of a judicial or other interpretation of the language used in the enactment.
MISCELLANEOUS
Majority
30.If an enactment requires or authorizes an act or thing to be done by more than two persons, a majority of them may do it.
Powers Respecting Regulations
Ancillary powers
31.The power conferred by an enactment on a person to do or enforce the doing of any act or thing, includes all the powers that are necessary for that purpose.
Amendment and repeal of regulations
32.(1) The power conferred by an Act to make regulations includes the power, exercisable in the same manner and subject to the same conditions, if any, to amend or repeal the regulations.
(2) The power conferred by an Act to make regulations includes the power to make regulations that
(a) are general or particular in application;
(b) are different for different classes; and
(c) establish classes for the purposes of paragraph (b).
(3) The power conferred by an Act to make regulations prescribing charges or fees includes the power to make regulations setting out the manner of calculating or otherwise determining those charges or fees.
Electronic Forms and
Communications
Power to prescribe electronic
33.(1) The power conferred by an Act to prescribe, approve or provide a form includes the power to
(a) prescribe, approve or provide an electronic form; and
(b) prescribe requirements for its electronic signature.
(2) The power conferred by an Act to prescribe or approve the manner of submitting a form includes the power to prescribe or approve electronic means of submitting the form.
Communica- tion of information
34.The power conferred by an Act to require the communication of information by means other than a form includes the power to
(a) prescribe, approve or direct electronic means that may be used to communicate the information; and
(b) prescribe, approve or direct requirements for the electronic signature of the information.
Money Due Under Enactments
Deposit in Consolidated Revenue Fund
35.Any tax, duty, fee, or charge, or penalty, fine or proceeds of a forfeiture under an enactment is, in the absence of a provision respecting it,
(a) deemed to belong to the Government of the Northwest Territories; and
(b) to be deposited in the Consolidated Revenue Fund.
Recovery of penalties and forfeitures
36.(1) A penalty or forfeiture imposed for the contravention of an enactment is recoverable with costs by a civil action at the suit of the Government of the Northwest Territories or of a private party suing for the Government of the Northwest Territories as well as himself or herself, if
(a) it cannot be recovered upon summary conviction; and
(b) no other mode is established or prescribed for its recovery, or another mode is established or prescribed, but it is not applicable.
(2) If no other provision is made for the appropriation of the penalty or forfeiture,
(a) in the case of a private plaintiff, one half of it belongs to the Government of the Northwest Territories, and the other half belongs to the private plaintiff; and
(b) in the absence of a private plaintiff, the whole belongs to the Government of the Northwest Territories.
REGULATIONS
Daylight Saving Time
37.The Commissioner, on the recommendation of the Minister, may make regulations prescribing the Daylight Saving Time period.
Public holiday
38.The Commissioner may make an order designating a day as a public holiday.
s.39-52 and Headings, Repealed, SNWT 2018, c.18,s.8(14).
SCHEDULE (Subsection 14(1))
1. In an enactment,
"Act" or "statute" means a law of the Legislature enacted under the Northwest Territories Act (Canada); (loi)
"adult" means an individual who has attained 19 years of age; (adulte)
"age of majority" means 19 years of age; (majorité)
"Auditor General" means the Auditor General of Canada appointed under the Auditor General Act (Canada); (vérificateur général)
"bank" means a bank to which the Bank Act (Canada) applies; (banque)
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Northwest Territories; (commissaire)
"Commissioner in Executive Council" means the Commissioner acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council; (commissaire en Conseil exécutif)
"Consolidated Revenue Fund" means the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Northwest Territories established by subsection 34(1) of the Northwest Territories Act (Canada); (Trésor)
"contravene" includes fail to comply with; (contrevenir)
"Court of Appeal" means the Court of Appeal for the Northwest Territories; (Cour d’appel)
"Criminal Code" means the Criminal Code (Canada); (Code criminel)
"Deputy Minister" means the non-elected head of a department of the Government of the Northwest Territories; (sous-ministre)
"enact" includes issue, make, establish or prescribe; (édicter)
"enactment" means an Act or a regulation or a portion of an Act or a regulation; (texte) "Executive Council" means the Executive Council of the Northwest Territories; (Conseil exécutif)
"Financial Management Board" means the Financial Management Board continued under subsection 6(1) of the Financial Administration Act; (Conseil de gestion financière)
"Government of Canada" means Her Majesty in right of Canada; (gouvernement du Canada)
"Governor", "Governor of Canada" or "Governor General" means the Governor General of Canada and includes the Administrator of Canada; (gouverneur)
"Governor in Council" or "Governor General in Council" means the Governor General acting on the advice and with the consent of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada; (gouverneur en conseil)
"Her Majesty", "His Majesty", "the Queen", "the King", "the Crown" or "the Sovereign" means the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her or His other Realms and Territories, and Head of the Commonwealth; (Sa Majesté)
"justice" means a justice of the peace, and includes two or more justices acting together as well as a judge of the Supreme Court or the Territorial Court; (juge de paix)
"Legislative Assembly" means the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories continued by the Northwest Territories Act (Canada); (Assemblée législative)
"Legislature" means the Commissioner acting by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly; (Législature)
"medical practitioner" means a person who is entitled to practise medicine in the Northwest Territories under the Medical Profession Act; (médecin)
"Minister" means a member of the Executive Council appointed as a Minister under the Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Act; (ministre)
"minor" means an individual who has not attained 19 years of age; (mineur)
"municipal bylaw" means a bylaw made by a municipal council; (règlement municipal) "municipal corporation" means (a) a charter community established or continued under the Charter Communities Act, (b) a city, town or village established or continued under the Cities, Towns and Villages Act, (c) a hamlet established or continued under the Hamlets Act, or (d) a Tåîchô community government established by the Tåîchô Community Government Act; (corporation municipale)
"municipal council" means the council of a municipal corporation; (conseil municipal)
"municipality" means a municipal corporation or the area within the boundaries of a municipal corporation; (municipalité)
"Northwest Territories" means the Northwest Territories as defined in the Northwest Territories Act (Canada); (Territoires du Nord-Ouest)
"oath" or "affidavit" includes a solemn affirmation or declaration, whenever a person is authorized by law to solemnly affirm or declare instead of swearing; (serment ou affidavit)
"Official Languages" means Official Languages as defined in the Official Languages Act; (langues officielles)
"on summary conviction" means under and by virtue of the provisions of the Summary Conviction Procedures Act; (procédure sommaire)
"peace officer" includes (a) a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, (b) a police officer, constable, or other person employed to preserve and maintain the public peace, (c) a warden, correctional officer or other person employed at a correctional institution or of a place of detention or custody, including a youth custody facility, a place of temporary detention and a place of open custody, (d) a person employed to serve or execute civil process, including a sheriff and a bailiff, (e) a bylaw officer in respect of an offence under a municipal bylaw, and (f) a person appointed under an Act for the enforcement of that Act; (agent de la paix)
"permanent resident of Canada" means a permanent resident within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Canada); (résident permanent du Canada)
"person" includes a corporation and the heirs, executors, administrators or other legal representatives of a person; (personne)
"prescribed" means prescribed by regulation; (prévu)
"province" means a province of Canada; (province)
"public officer" means a person employed in the public service (a) who is authorized by or under an enactment to do or enforce the doing of an act or thing or to exercise a power, or (b) on whom a duty is imposed by or under an enactment; (fonctionnaire public)
"public service" means public service as defined in subsection 1(1) of the Public Service Act; (fonction publique)
"regulation" means a regulation as defined in subsection 1(1) of the Statutory Instruments Act; (règlement)
"repeal" includes revoke, cancel or rescind; (abroger)
"Rules of the Supreme Court" means the Rules of the Supreme Court as defined in the Judicature Act; (Règles de la Cour suprême)
"Seal" means the Seal of the Northwest Territories established by Order of the Governor in Council on November 29, 1956; (sceau)
"settlement" means an unincorporated community; (localité)
"spouse" means spouse as defined in section 1 of the Family Law Act; (conjoint) "statutory declaration" means a statutory declaration as defined in the Evidence Act; (déclaration solennelle)
"statutory instrument" means a statutory instrument as defined in subsection 1(1) of the Statutory Instruments Act; (texte réglementaire)
"Supreme Court" means the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories; (cour suprême)
"swear" includes "affirm" and "declare", whenever a person is authorized by law to solemnly affirm or declare instead of swearing; (prêter serment)
"Territorial Court" means the Territorial Court of the Northwest Territories; (Cour territoriale)
"territorial judge" means a territorial judge as defined in the Territorial Court Act; (juge territorial)
"territory", when used in reference to a part of Canada other than the Northwest Territories, means Nunavut and Yukon; (territoire)
"United Kingdom" means the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; (Royaume-Uni)
"United States" means the United States of America; (États-Unis)
"will" includes a codicil; (testament)
"writing", "written" or any term of similar import includes words printed, typewritten, painted, engraved, lithographed, photographed or represented or reproduced by any mode of representing or reproducing words in visible form; (écrit)
"young person" means a young person as defined in the Youth Justice Act; (adolescent)
"youth justice court" means the Territorial Court designated as a youth justice court under subsection 3(1) of the Territorial Court Act, or the justices of the peace designated as a youth justice court under subsection 4.1(2) of the Justices of the Peace Act; (tribunal pour adolescents)
"youth justice court judge" means a youth justice court judge as defined in the Youth Justice Act. (juge du tribunal pour adolescents) SNWT 2018,c.18,s.8(16),(17); SNWT 2023,c.7,s.21.