1In this Act
“communicable disease” means a disease prescribed by regulation as a communicable disease; (maladie transmissible)
“court” means The Court of Queen’s Bench of New Brunswick and includes a judge of that court;(cour)
“examination” means the taking of a medical history, a physical inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation of the human body, the taking of specimens of bodily fluids for laboratory tests, the use of diagnostic imaging or the performing of diagnostic procedures that may be required to determine the existence of a communicable disease or the agent of a communicable disease;(examen)
“food” means food or drink, including milk, for human consumption and includes an ingredient of food or drink for human consumption;(aliments)
“food premises” means a premises where food or milk is manufactured, processed, prepared, stored, handled, displayed, distributed, transported, sold or offered for sale, and includes a food vending machine and an abattoir but does not include premises exempted by the regulations;(locaux destinés aux aliments)
“Group I communicable disease” means
(maladies transmissible du Groupe I)
(c)
haemorrhagic fevers diseases,
(e)
tuberculosis (active), and
any other disease prescribed by regulation as a Group I communicable disease;
“health hazard” means
(danger pour la santé)
(a)
a condition of a premises,
(b)
a substance, thing or plant or animal other than man,
(c)
a solid, liquid, gas or combination of any of them, or
(d)
a noise, vibration or radiation
that has or is likely to have an adverse effect on the health of a person;
“health region” means a health region established under the regulations;(région sanitaire)
“hospital corporation” Repealed: 2002, c.1, s.19
“institution” means
(établissement)
(a)
a correctional institution as defined in the
Corrections Act,
(b)
a nursing home as defined in the
Nursing Homes Act, and
includes any other place prescribed by regulation;
“medical officer of health” means a medical officer of health appointed under section 59 and includes the chief medical officer of health;(médecin-hygiéniste)
“milk” means milk originating from any animal other than man and intended for human consumption;(lait)
“Minister” means the Minister of Health and includes persons designated by the Minister to act on the Minister’s behalf;(Ministre)
“notifiable disease” means a disease prescribed by regulation or declared in an order of the Minister to be a notifiable disease;(maladie à déclaration obligatoire)
“nurse practitioner” means a person who is registered under the laws of the Province as authorized to practice as a nurse practitioner;(infirmière practicienne)
“occupier” includes
(occupant)
(a)
a person who is in physical possession of premises,
(b)
a person who has responsibility for and control over the condition of the premises or the activities there carried on, or control over persons allowed to enter the premises, or
(c)
a person for the time being receiving the rent of premises, whether as principal or as agent or trustee for another person, or who would receive the rent if the premises were let, or who is responsible for the payment of municipal or rural community taxes,
although there is more than one occupier of the same premises;
“on-site sewage disposal system” means a septic tank with subsurface disposal field and all other on-site sewage disposal systems that are not connected to a wastewater treatment facility approved by the Minister of Environment and Local Government under the Clean Water Act; (réseau autonome d’évacuation et d’épuration des eaux usées)
“potable water” means water that is suitable, on the basis of health considerations, for cooking or drinking by humans;(eau potable)
“premises” means lands and structures, or either of them, and includes
(locaux)
(c)
trailers and portable structures designed or used for residence, business or shelter, and
(d)
trains, railway cars, vehicles and aircraft;
“public health inspector” means a public health inspector appointed under section 62;(inspecteur de la santé publique)
“public water supply system” means a water supply system that is owned or operated by a municipality, a rural community or the Crown in right of the Province and includes such other water supply systems owned or operated by other persons as are prescribed by the regulations; (réseau public d’adduction d’eau)
“radiation” means ionizing or non-ionizing energy in the form of atomic particles or electromagnetic or acoustic waves;(radiation)
“regional health authority” means a regional health authority as defined in the Regional Health Authorities Act;(régie régionale de la santé)
“water supply system” means a works that conveys or is able to convey water for human consumption.(réseau d’adduction d’eau)
2000, c.26, s.251; 2002, c.1, s.19; 2002, c.23, s.10; 2005, c.7, s.66; 2006, c.16, s.147; 2007, c.63, s.1; 2012, c.39, s.121