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.