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Section 2Part — Preliminary

Definitions

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In this Act —
means the Health Appeals Tribunal established under section 4;
means —
an insurer licensed under the Insurance Act, 2010 [Law 32 of 2010] to carry on insurance business within the meaning of that Act; or
any other person or organisation approved by the Commission to provide medical or any other type of indemnity cover in the Islands;
means —
subject to paragraph (b), an investigation or series of investigations consisting of the administration of one or more medicinal products or of one or more treatments of a particular description —
by or under the direction of a registered practitioner to one or more of that person’s patients; or
by or under the direction of two or more registered practitioners, each product being administered by or under the direction of one or other of those registered practitioners to one or more of that person’s patients,
but
a clinical trial does not include —
the administration of any medicinal product in respect of which there is a product licence in force in the United Kingdom, provided that administration is carried out in accordance with the conditions of the licence;
the administration of any medicinal product in respect of which a licence equivalent to that referred to in subparagraph (i) has been issued by the appropriate authority in the United States of America, Canada or Jamaica and is in force and that administration is carried out in accordance with the conditions of that licence; or
the administration of any medicinal product approved by the World Health Organization.
means the Health Practice Commission established under section 3;
means a Council established under section 21;
means premises at which health services are provided by a registered practitioner;
include clinical examination, nursing care, dental care, the provision of blood and blood products, diagnostic procedures, the provision of medical and surgical services, provision of pharmaceuticals, advice or counselling and any such other service as is provided by a registered practitioner under this Act;
in relation to a health care facility, includes owner;
means a health care facility designated by the Cabinet under section 7A(2);
means a person designated by the Cabinet under section 7A(1);
includes inpatient and ambulatory medical and surgical services provided to individuals who have travelled to the Islands for the purposes of obtaining health care;
means any substance, article or device (including any instrument, apparatus or appliance) which is manufactured, sold, supplied or imported for use wholly or mainly in either or both of the following ways —
use by being administered to one or more human beings or animals for a medicinal purpose;
use as an ingredient in the preparation of a substance, article or device which is being administered to one or more human beings or animal for a medicinal purpose;
means any one or more of the following purposes —
treating or preventing disease;
diagnosing disease or ascertaining the existence, degree or extent of a physiological condition;
contraception;
anaesthesia;
investigation, replacement or modification of the anatomy or of a physiological process;
otherwise preventing or interfering with the normal operation of a physiological function, whether permanently or temporarily and whether by way of terminating, reducing, postponing, increasing or accelerating the operation of that function or in any other way;
means the Minister responsible for health;
means a licence issued pursuant to section 27A(1);
means the register of practitioners kept by each Council under this Act;
means any person qualified to practise any of the professions specified in this Act and registered under this Act;
means a person in the public service appointed by the Cabinet, acting in its discretion, to carry out the duties specified under this Act;
means regulations made under this Act;
means the period commencing on 1st July, 2013, the date of the commencement of the Health Practice (Amendment) Act, 2013 [Law 13 of 2013], and ending on the 18th February, 2020, the date of commencement of the Health Practice (Amendment and Validation) Act, 2020 [Law 8 of 2020]; and
in relation to disease, includes anything done or provided for a medicinal purpose.

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