SOR-2019-260 — Regulations Prescribing Physical Injuries

Provision

Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, pursuant to subsection 45.79(3) a of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act b, makes the annexed Regulations Prescribing Physical Injuries. S.C. 2013, c. 18, s. 35 R.S., c. R-10

s. 1 — Physical injuries

For the purposes of the definition serious injury in subsection 45.79(1) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act, the following physical injuries — that are not transient or trifling in nature and for which medical attention was received from a person who is entitled to practice medicine or practice as a nurse under the laws of a province — are prescribed:

s. 1(a)

any physical injury that results in

s. 1(a)(i)

a substantial loss or impairment of mobility of the body,

s. 1(a)(ii)

a loss of function, in whole or in part, of any limb, organ or other body member,

s. 1(a)(iii)

a loss of vision or hearing in whole or in part, or

s. 1(a)(iv)

a substantial disfigurement;

s. 1(b)

the fracture of a limb, a rib, a vertebra or the skull; or

s. 1(c)

any burns, cuts or lacerations to a major portion of the body.

s. 2 — Coming into force

These Regulations come into force on the day on which they are registered.