2023 Laws not yet authenticated through a Commencement Order

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)

2.   Interpretation

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    (1)   In these Regulations —

body art facility” means premises at or in which a body art service is offered or carried out;

body art service” means the act of permanently or semi-permanently altering the body for non-medical reasons for the purpose of cultural, artistic or self-expression reasons by —

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    (a)     branding;

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    (b)     piercing; or

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    (c)     tattooing;

contamination” means the presence of an infectious, chemical or physical agent on a body surface, inanimate object or other surface;

communicable disease” means —

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    (a)     a disease under the Public Health (Communicable and Notifiable Diseases) Regulations;

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    (b)     due to a specific infectious agent or its toxic products, that arises through the transmission of that agent or its toxic products —

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      (i)     directly or indirectly from an infected person or animal, or

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      (ii)     directly or indirectly through a person, animal or plant carrying the disease, an inanimate object or the environment;

dental practitioner” means a person who is registered and holds a practicing certificate under the Health Practitioners Act as a General Practitioner Specialist Practitioner or a Temporary Practitioner for the purpose of practicing dentistry;

dwelling” means a building or a portion of a building that is occupied and used as a residence and includes a house, condominium, apartment, cottage, mobile home, trailer or boat that is occupied and used as a residence;

licence” means a licence issued under regulation 7;

licensee” means a person who holds a licence;

medical practitioner” means a person who is registered and holds a valid practicing certificate under the Health Practitioner's Act as a General Practitioner, Specialist Practitioner or a Temporary Practitioner for the purpose of practicing medicine;

notifiable disease” means a disease under the Public Health (Communicable and Notifiable Diseases) Regulations;

occupier” means an occupier at common law, and includes a person who —

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    (a)     is in physical possession of premises; or

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    (b)     has responsibility for, and control over, the condition of premises, the activities conducted on the premises or the persons allowed to enter the premises,

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    and, for the purpose of these Regulations, there may be more than one occupier of the same premises;

premises” means a place, an area, a structure or building, including a mobile, stationary, temporary or permanent facility or a temporary or permanent location.

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    (2)   A reference to risk to human health is a reference to a condition that is injurious to human health or in the opinion of the Board is potentially injurious to human health.