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Interpretation. 32. In this Act ["authorised officer" means the chief administrative medical officer of, or any other officer authorised by, a Health and Social Services Board;] "building" includes any ship, vessel, boat, hover vehicle, tent, van, caravan, shed or other structure used for human habitation; "carrier", in relation to a notifiable disease, means a person who, while not suffering from any of the symptoms of the disease, has within his body in a communicable form, the organism which causes that disease, but does not include a person who has merely been in contact with the disease; Definition rep. by 1972 NI 14 art.109(3) sch.18 ["Health and Social Services Board" means a Health and Social Services Board established under Article 16 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972;] "house" includes any room, tenement, flat and any other part of a house; "hover vehicle" means a vehicle designed to be supported on a cushion of air; "infectious disease" means any infectious or contagious disease, but does not include a venereal disease; Definition rep. by 1972 NI 14 art.109(3) sch.18 "medical practitioner" means a fully registered person within the meaning of section 54 of the Medical Act 1956; "Ministry" means the Ministry of Health and Social Services; "notifiable disease" has the meaning assigned to it by section 1; "occupier" means any person in occupation of, or having charge, management or control of, or of any part of, any building or premises; "owner" means the person for the time being receiving the rack-rent of the premises in connection with which the word is used, whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other person, or who would so receive the same if the premises were let at a rack-rent; "prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made by the Ministry under this Act; "premises" includes messuages, buildings, lands, easements and hereditaments of any tenure; "resident magistrate" means a resident magistrate sitting as a court of summary jurisdiction or out of petty sessions, and acting ex parte, if it be deemed necessary by the magistrate; Definition rep. by 1972 NI 14 art.109(3) sch.18 S.33, with Schedule 3, effects repeals
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