1 Interpretation
(a) "accredited agency" means a person designated as an
accredited agency under this Act;
(b) "accredited corporation" mean s a corporation designated as
an accredited corporation under this Act;
(c) "accredited municipality" means a municipality that is
designated as an accredited municipality under this Act;
(d) "accredited regional services commission" means a regional
services commission established under the Municipal
Government Act that is designated as an accredited regional
services commission under this Act;
(d.1) "administrative penalty" means an administrative penalty
referred to in section 57.1;
(e) "Administrator" means an Administrator appointed under
this Act;
(e.1) "Authority" means the Al berta Safety Codes Authority
established under section 30.1;
(f) "building" includes a structure and any part of a building or
structure, but does not include any thing excluded by the
regulations from the definition of building;
(g) "construction" includes alteration, installation, repair,
relocation, demolition and removal;
(h) "contractor" means a person or organization that does or
undertakes to do, either for the person's or organization's
own use or benefit or for that of another, whether or not for
the purposes of gain, any process or activity to which this
Act applies;
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(i) "Council" means the Safety Codes Council established
under this Act;
(j) "design" includes plans, diagrams, drawings and
specifications depicting the arrangement and operation of
any thing, process or activity to which this Act applies;
(k) "electrical system" means an assembly or any part of an
assembly of electrical equipment or components used or
intended to be used for the generation, transmission,
distribution, control or utilization of electric energy, but
does not include any thing excluded by the regulations from
the definition of electrical system;
(l) "elevating device" means a passenger elevator, freight
elevator, dumbwaiter, emergency elevator, escalator,
inclined passenger lift, manlift, passenger ropeway, material
lift, moving walk, personnel hoist, lift for persons with
disabilities, or amusement ride, as defined in the regulations,
or anything designated by the regulations as an elevating
device;
(m) "evaluation" includes load, destructive and non-destructive
tests;
(n) "fire protection" includes fire detection, prevention and
suppression;
(o) "gas" means any gas or compressed gas or any mixture or
dilution of gases and includes any combustible or
flammable fluid, but does not include any gas, mixture or
dilution of gases or combustible or flammable fluid
excluded by the regulations from the definition of gas;
(p) "gas system" means any equi pment or installation used or
intended to be used in or in conjunction with the processing,
transmission, storage, distribution, supply or use of gas, but
does not include any thing excluded by the regulations from
the definition of gas system;
(q) "information system" m eans an information system
maintained under section 58;
(r) "local authority" means
(i) a council of a city, town, village, summer village or
municipal district,
(ii) for the purposes of this Act, a settlement council of a
Metis settlement,
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(iii) a board of administrators of a new town,
(iv) the Minister responsible for the Municipal Government
Act, in the case of an improvement district, or
(v) the Minister responsible for the Special Areas Act, in the
case of a special area;
(s) "Metis patented land" means patented land as defined in the
Metis Settlements Act;
(t) "Minister" means the Minister determined under section 16
of the Government Organization Act as the Minister
responsible for this Act;
(u) "municipality" includes, for the purposes of this Act, a
Metis settlement;
(v) "owner" includes a lessee, a person in charge, a person who
has care and control and a person who holds out that the
person has the powers and authority of ownership or who
for the time being exercises the powers and authority of
ownership;
(w) "person" includes a partnership and a band as defined in the
Indian Act (Canada);
(x) "plumbing system" means the whole or any part of a
drainage system, a venting system or a water system, but
does not include any thing excluded by the regulations from
the definition of plumbing system;
(y) "pressure equipment" means a boiler, a fired-heater pressure
coil, a thermal liquid heating system and other equipment
designed to contain expansible fluid under pressure,
including, but not limited to, pressure vessels, pressure
piping systems and fittings, as defined in the regulations;
(z) "private sewage disposal system" means the whole or any
part of a system for the management, treatment and disposal
of sewage on the site where the sewage is generated, but
does not include anything excluded by the regulations;
(aa) "quality management system" means all the documented,
planned and systematic actions needed to ensure that this
Act is complied with;
(bb) "safety codes officer" means an individual designated as a
safety codes officer under section 31;
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(cc) repealed 2015 c10 s2;
(cc.1) "sub-council" means a sub-council of the Council
established under section 16.1(3);
(cc.2) "tele-warrant" means a te le-warrant issued under section
48.1;
(dd) "variance" means a vari ance issued under this Act;
(ee) "vendor" includes a lessor.
(2) In this Act, a reference to "this Act" includes the regulations
and bylaws made under this Act and any code, standards or body of
rules declared to be in force pursuant to this Act.
(3) This Act is to be interpreted in a manner consistent with the
principles of barrier-free design and access to allow persons with
physical and sensory disabilities to more easily and safely access
and use buildings, facilities and services to which this Act applies.
RSA 2000 cS-1 s1;2015 c10 s2