Cap. 36 Art. 2Interpretation.

In this Ordinance and in any regulation made thereunder, unless the context otherwise requires -

"animals" means all living beings of the animal kingdom other than human beings;

"carcase" means the carcase of an animal, and includes part of a carcase and the meat, bones, hide, skin, hoofs, horns, offal or other part of an animal separately or otherwise or any portion thereof;

"cattle" means bulls, cows, oxen, buffaloes, heifers and calves; "dairy" includes any farm, farmhouse, cowshed, milk-store, milk shop or other place from which milk is supplied, or in which milk is kept for purposes of sale, and any place in which animals from which milk is supplied are kept; "dairyman" includes any cowkeeper, purveyor of milk or occupier of a dairy; "day" or "day time" means the time from the rising to the setting of the sun; "disease" (as used in Part I of this Ordinance) means any disease of an infectious or contagious nature dangerous to mankind and includes "rabies", but does not include any venereal disease; "disease" (as used in Part II of this Ordinance) means any disease of an infectious or contagious nature, and includes the presence of parasitic animals or plants which attach themselves to the exterior or inhabit the interior of the bodies of animals, and which disease is dangerous to mankind or to animals or to both; "diseased" means affected with disease; "factory" includes any workshop and work-place;

"fish" includes fin fish, molluscs and crustaceans whether fresh or sea-water;

"fodder" means grass, clover or other substance commonly used for food for animals;

"government medical officer" means a duly licensed medical practitioner in the employment of the Government;

"house" means any dwelling-house and any mezzanine, room or other building used as a dwelling-house and includes any school, and any factory or other building where persons are employed; "litter" means straw or other substance commonly used for bedding or otherwise for or about animals; "mortuary" means any place appointed by the Minister responsible for public health for the reception of dead bodies before internment; "occupier" means, in respect of a house or part of a house the person who occupies the premises or has the charge, management or control thereof, either for himself or as agent of another person, and, in respect of a ship, the master or other person in charge thereof; "owner" means, in respect of a building or part of a building, the person who is entitled to receive the rents of the premises, or who would be so entitled if such premises were let, and shall include any tutor, curator or other administrator as well as, in the case of public property, the person entrusted with the management thereof; "poultry" means fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowls and domestic and racing pigeons; "ship" means any sailing-ship or steamship and includes any vessel or boat; "street" includes any lane, footway, square, open space or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, and whether there are houses or not;

"Superintendent" means the Chief Government Medical Officer and Superintendent of Public Health;

"suspected" means suspected of being diseased.