MHHS · Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act
Part 1 — Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods
3 Interpretation
(a) "complainant" means a person who has made a complaint to
the Director pursuant to section 4;
(b) "intoxicating substance" means
(i) glues, adhesives, cements, cleaning solvents, thinning
agents and dyes containing toluene or acetone;
(ii) petroleum distillates or products containing petroleum
distillates, including naphtha, mineral spirits, Stoddard
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solvent, kerosene, gasoline, mineral seal oil and other
related distillates of petroleum,
(iii) fingernail or o ther polish removers containing acetone,
aliphatic acetates or methyl ethyl ketone,
(iv) any substance that is required pursuant to the Hazardous
Products Act (Canada) or the regulations pursuant to that
Act to bear the label "Vapour Harmful", "Vapour Very
Harmful" or "Vapour Extremely Harmful",
(v) aerosol disinfectants a nd other aerosol products
containing ethyl alcohol, or
(vi) any other product or substance that is prescribed in the
regulations as an intoxicating substance;
(c) "property" means
(i) a building and the land on which it is located, and
(ii) land on which no building is located;
(d) "respondent" means the owne r named as a respondent in an
application made pursuant to section 6 or 13;
(e) "specified use" means, in re lation to property, the use of
property for
(i) the manufacturing, import, purchase, sale, transport,
giving, possession, storage, consumption or use of liquor
or cannabis, as defined in the Gaming, Liquor and
Cannabis Act, in contravention of that Act,
(ii) the use or consumption as an intoxicant by any person of
an intoxicating substance, or the sale, transfer or
exchange of an intoxicating substance if there is a
reasonable basis to believe that the recipient will use or
consume the substance as an intoxicant, or cause or
permit the intoxicating substance to be used or
consumed as an intoxicant,
(iii) the possession, growth, us e, consumption, sale, transfer
or exchange of a controlled substance, as defined in the
Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (Canada), in
contravention of that Act,
(iv) child sexual abuse or activities related to child sexual
abuse,
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(v) prostitution or activities related to prostitution,
(vi) the commission or promotion of a criminal organization
offence,
(vii) the accommodation, aid, assistance or support of any
nature of a gang or criminal organization or any of its
activities or the facilitation of any of its activities, or
(viii) any other use presc ribed in the regulations;
(f) "tenancy agreement" means a residential tenancy agreement
as defined in the Residential Tenancies Act or a tenancy
agreement as defined in the Mobile Home Sites Tenancies
Act.
(2) For the purposes of this Part, a community or neighbourhood is
adversely affected by activities if the activities
(a) negatively affect the health, safety or security of one or
more persons in the community or neighbourhood; or
(b) interfere with the peaceful enjoyment of one or more
properties in the community or neighbourhood, whether the
property is privately or publicly owned.
2007 cS-0.5 s3;2017 c21 s29;2020 c23 s17