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  1. Judges Act - R.S.C., 1985, c. J-1 (Section 32)
    Marginal note:Election to cease to perform duties of chief justice of provincial superior court

    • 32 (1) Where the legislature of a province has enacted legislation establishing for each office of chief justice of a superior court of the province such additional offices of judge of that court as are required for the purposes of this section, and a chief justice of that court has notified the Minister and the attorney general of the province of his or her election to cease to perform the duties of chief justice and to perform only the duties of a judge, the chief justice shall thereupon hold only the office of a judge, other than a chief justice, of that court and shall be paid the salary annexed to the office of a judge, other than a chief justice, of that court until he or she reaches the age of retirement, resigns or is removed from or otherwise ceases to hold office.

    • Marginal note:Restriction on election

      (2) A chief justice of a superior court of a province may make the election referred to in subsection (1) only if the chief justice has continued in the office of chief justice, senior associate chief justice or associate chief justice of a superior court of the province or a division thereof, or in two or more such offices, for at least five years.

    • Marginal note:Duties of judge

      (3) A chief justice of a superior court of a province who has made the election referred to in subsection (1) shall perform all of the judicial duties normally performed by a judge, other than the chief justice, of that court.

    • Marginal note:Salary of judge

      (4) The salary of each chief justice of a superior court of a province who has made the election referred to in subsection (1) is the salary annexed to the office of a judge of that court, other than a chief justice.

    • Definition of chief justice and chief justice of a superior court of a province

      (5) In this section, chief justice or chief justice of a superior court of a province means a chief justice, senior associate chief justice or associate chief justice of such a court or, where the court is constituted with divisions, of a division thereof.

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  2. Investment Canada Act - R.S.C., 1985, c. 28 (1st Supp.) (Section 40)
    Marginal note:Application for court order

    • 40 (1) If a non-Canadian or any other person or entity fails to comply with a demand under section 39, an application on behalf of the Minister may be made to a superior court for an order under subsection (2) or (2.1).

    • Marginal note:Court orders

      (2) If, at the conclusion of the hearing on an application referred to in subsection (1), the superior court decides that the Minister was justified in sending a demand to the non-Canadian or other person or entity under section 39 and that the non-Canadian or other person or entity has failed to comply with the demand, the court may make any order or orders as, in its opinion, the circumstances require, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, an order

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      • (b) enjoining the non-Canadian from taking any action specified in the order in relation to the investment that might prejudice the ability of a superior court, on a subsequent application for an order under paragraph (a), to effectively accomplish the end of such an order;

    • Marginal note:Court orders — person or entity

      (2.1) If, at the conclusion of the hearing on an application referred to in subsection (1), the superior court decides that the Minister was justified in sending a demand to a person or an entity under section 39 and that the person or entity has failed to comply with it, the court may make any order or orders that, in its opinion, the circumstances require, including an order against the person or entity imposing a penalty not exceeding the greater of $25,000 and any prescribed amount for each day of the contravention.

    • Marginal note:Penalties recoverable as debts

      (3) A penalty imposed by an order made under paragraph (2)(d) or subsection (2.1) is a debt due to Her Majesty in right of Canada and is recoverable as such in a superior court.

    • Marginal note:Contempt of court

      (4) Everyone who fails or refuses to comply with an order made by a superior court under subsection (2) or (2.1) that is directed to them may be cited and punished by the court that made the order, as for other contempts of that court.

    • Marginal note:Rights of appeal

      (5) For greater certainty, all rights of appeal provided by law apply in the case of any decision or order made by a superior court under this section, as in the case of other decisions or orders made by that court.

    • Marginal note:Definition of superior court

      (6) In this section, superior court has the same meaning as in subsection 35(1) of the Interpretation Act  but does not include the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal or the Tax Court of Canada.

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  3. Regulation Adapting the Canada Elections Act for the Purposes of a Referendum - SOR/2010-20 (SCHEDULE : Canada Elections Act as Adapted for the Purposes of a Referendum)

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    Marginal note:Definitions

    • 2 (1) The definitions in this subsection apply in this Act.

      judge

      judge , when used to define the judicial officer on whom is conferred specific powers, means

      • (a) in relation to the Province of Ontario, a judge of the Superior Court of Justice;

      • (b) in relation to the Province of Quebec, a judge of the Superior Court of Quebec;

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    Marginal note:Referendum officers

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    • (3) The following persons shall not be appointed as a referendum officer:

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      • (d) a judge or deputy judge of any superior court or any bankruptcy or insolvency court and, in Yukon and the Northwest Territories, a judge of the Supreme Court;

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    Marginal note:Failure of judge to act

    • 311 (1) If a judge does not comply with the provisions of subsections 300(4), 301(4) to (6), sections 302, 304 to 306, and 308 of this Act, and sections 29 and 30 of the Referendum Act, an aggrieved party may, within eight days after the failure to comply, make application for an order under subsection (3)

      • (a) in the Province of Ontario, to a judge of the Superior Court of Justice;

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    Marginal note:Chief Electoral Officer to retain referendum documents

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    • Marginal note:Inspection of documents

      (3) No referendum documents, or documents that relate to the establishment or updating of the Register of Electors, that are retained in the custody of the Chief Electoral Officer under subsection (1) or (2) shall, during the period of their retention, be inspected or produced except under an order of a judge of a superior court, which, if made, the Chief Electoral Officer shall obey.

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    • Marginal note:Referendum documents or papers admissible in evidence when certified

      (5) When a judge of a superior court has ordered the production of referendum documents, the Chief Electoral Officer need not, unless the judge orders otherwise, appear personally to produce them but shall certify the documents and send them by courier to the clerk or registrar of the court, who shall, when the documents have served the purposes of the judge, return them by courier to the Chief Electoral Officer.

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  4. Judges Act - R.S.C., 1985, c. J-1 (Section 41)
    Marginal note:Meeting, conference and seminar expenses

    • 41 (1) A judge of a superior court who attends a meeting, conference or seminar that is held for a purpose relating to the administration of justice and that the judge in the capacity of a judge is required by law to attend, or who, with the approval of the chief justice of that court, attends any such meeting, conference or seminar that the judge in that capacity is expressly authorized by law to attend, is entitled to be paid, as a conference allowance, reasonable travel and other expenses actually incurred by the judge in so attending.

    • Marginal note:Expenses for other meetings, conferences or seminars

      (2) Subject to subsection (3), a judge of a superior court who, with the approval of the chief justice of that court,

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    • (3) Where the aggregate amount of conference allowances that have been paid under subsection (2) in any year

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      • (b) to the judges of any other particular superior court exceeds the greater of $5,000 and the product obtained by multiplying the number of judges of that court by $500,

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    • (4) For the purposes of this section,

      superior court

      superior court, in the case of a superior court constituted with divisions, means a division thereof. (juridiction supérieure)

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  5. Criminal Code - R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46 (Section 490)
    Marginal note:Detention of things seized

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    • (3) More than one order for further detention may be made under paragraph (2)(a) but the cumulative period of detention shall not exceed one year from the day of the seizure, or any longer period that ends when an application made under paragraph (a) is decided, unless

      • (a) a judge of a superior court of criminal jurisdiction or a judge as defined in section 552, on the making of a summary application to him after three clear days notice thereof to the person from whom the thing detained was seized, is satisfied, having regard to the complex nature of the investigation, that the further detention of the thing seized is warranted for a specified period and subject to such other conditions as the judge considers just, and the judge so orders; or

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    • (5) Where at any time before the expiration of the periods of detention provided for or ordered under subsections (1) to (3) in respect of anything seized, the prosecutor, or the peace officer or other person having custody of the thing seized, determines that the continued detention of the thing seized is no longer required for any purpose mentioned in subsection (1) or (4), the prosecutor, peace officer or other person shall apply to

      • (a) a judge of a superior court of criminal jurisdiction or a judge as defined in section 552, where a judge ordered its detention under subsection (3), or

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    • (7) A person from whom anything has been seized may, after the expiration of the periods of detention provided for or ordered under subsections (1) to (3) and on three clear days notice to the Attorney General, apply summarily to

      • (a) a judge of a superior court of criminal jurisdiction or a judge as defined in section 552, where a judge ordered the detention of the thing seized under subsection (3), or

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    • Marginal note:Exception

      (8) A judge of a superior court of criminal jurisdiction or a judge as defined in section 552, where a judge ordered the detention of the thing seized under subsection (3), or a justice, in any other case, may allow an application to be made under subsection (7) prior to the expiration of the periods referred to therein where he is satisfied that hardship will result unless the application is so allowed.

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    • Marginal note:Access to anything seized

      (15) Where anything is detained pursuant to subsections (1) to (3.1), a judge of a superior court of criminal jurisdiction, a judge as defined in section 552 or a provincial court judge may, on summary application on behalf of a person who has an interest in what is detained, after three clear days notice to the Attorney General, order that the person by or on whose behalf the application is made be permitted to examine anything so detained.

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    • (17) A person who feels aggrieved by an order made under subsection (8), (9), (9.1) or (11) may appeal from the order

      • (a) to the court of appeal as defined in section 673 if the order was made by a judge of a superior court of criminal jurisdiction, in which case sections 678 to 689 apply with any modifications that the circumstances require; or

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