S.L. 465.74 Art. 2Interpretation. Cap. 465.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Act" means the Public Health Act;

"antimicrobial resistance" means when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines, making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death. As a result of drug resistance, antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines become ineffective and infections become increasingly difficult or impossible to treat;

"AMR" means antimicrobial resistance;

"Committee" means the National Antimicrobial Resistance Committee established by regulation 3.