S.L. 458.25 Art. 2Interpretation. Cap. 464.

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires -"the Act" means the Health Care Professions Act; "authorised person" means a person authorised by the Minister to act on his behalf; "good laboratory practice" includes the compliance at all times with the ethical standards and with laws and regulations governing the professions related with laboratory practice, as well as compliance with international standards for procedures, practices and methods used in a laboratory; "laboratory" means a private medical diagnostic laboratory, and includes any facility, building or otherwise, used for the purpose of biological, microbiological, serological, chemical, immunohaematological, haematological, biophysical, cytological, pathological, or other examination of material derived from the human or animal body, or for the purpose of providing information for the diagnosis, prevention or treatment of any disease, condition or impairment of health, or for the assessment of the state of health of a person or animal, but does not include a government laboratory; "Minister" means the Minister responsible for health.