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2. Interpretation

In these Regulations —

“carton” means a box, container or package containing more than one pack of tobacco products;

“child” means a person under the age of eighteen years;

“constable” means a police officer below the rank of corporal;

“emission” means substances that are released from tobacco or tobacco products and other product and substances;

“enclosed” means a space covered by a roof or one or more walls or sides, using any type of material and whether the structure is permanent or temporary;

“entrance” does not include —

(a) a parking lot;

(b) a gateway; or

“exit” does not include —

(a) a parking lot;

(b) a gateway; or

“guest” includes a person who pays for the use of a service or accommodation in a hotel;

“hotel” means a building or group of buildings used to provide services and accommodation to guests for reward, containing —

(a) not less than six bedrooms;

(b) one or more kitchens in which meals may be prepared by employees of the hotel owner or hotel operator for the guests; and

(c) one or more dining rooms shared in common by all the guests in which meals may be served by employees of the hotel owner or hotel operator to such guests;

“package” means a covering, wrapper, container, carton, bag or other enclosure that contains a tobacco product, including labels and other written or graphic information regarding same;

“place of assembly for use of the public” means a public space used for gathering of persons;

“public conveyance” means a form or mode of transportation which carries passengers, for hire or reward, whether in Saint Lucia or internationally but does not include privately operated, vehicles not used for commercial purposes;

“public place” —

(a) means a —
1. (i) structure,
1. (ii) facility,
1. (iii) place of assembly,
1. (iv) other place, open to the public,

for use of the public or accessible to the public;

(b) includes —
1. (i) Government offices,
1. (ii) bars, restaurants, clubs and tourist establishments, and
1. (iii) other places or buildings of all types accessible to the public;

“smoke” —

(a) means inhaling or exhaling the emissions of tobacco, other product and substance;

(b) includes handling an ignited or heated tobacco product, other product and substance that it produces smoke or other emissions by any means, including by electronic means;

“tobacco” includes a tobacco product;

“tobacco product” means tobacco in any form including by electronic nicotine delivery in which it is used or consumed and includes the tobacco leaf, tobacco in cigarettes and any product entirely or partly made from the leaf of the tobacco plant as raw material and which is manufactured for use in smoking, sucking, chewing or snuffing tobacco or a by-product;

“tobacco smoke” means the smoke or other emissions released from tobacco;

“tourist establishment” means a hotel, resort, cottage, villa, guest house, apartment complex or such accommodation with or without facilities for the preparation of meals, offering accommodation to guests, for reward, and includes the premises;

“workplace” —

(a) means an area or place used by persons during employment, work or contract for services —

(b) includes —
1. (i) vehicles used in the course of employment or work purposes,
1. (ii) connected, annexed places or common areas, and
1. (iii) residences used for commercially operated child care facilities.