Cap. 315 Art. 2Interpretation.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires -

"advertising" means any form of commercial communication with the aim of directly or indirectly promoting tobacco products;

"authorised officer" includes any person attached to the Department of Health and duly authorised by the Superintendent to exercise any power of the Superintendent under this Act and includes police officers; "cigarette" includes cut tobacco rolled up in paper, tobacco leaf, or other material in such form as to be capable of immediate use for smoking;

"information society services" means services within the meaning of Article 1(2) of Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations and of rules on Information Society Services as amended by Directive 98/48 EC (published in the Official Journal of the European Union under reference OJ L 204, 21.7.1998 1937 and OJ L 217, 5.8.1998, respectively;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for public health and includes, to the extent of the authority given, any person authorised in that behalf for any purpose of this Act; "person" includes a body corporate established by law;

"prescribed" means prescribed by regulations under this Act; "public place" includes any place to which the public have or are permitted to have access, whether on payment or otherwise; "publication" includes any article, of any material whatsoever, on which are visible any word, picture or other message, whether printed or otherwise;

"smoking requisites" means requisites for smoking tobacco or intended mainly for the preparation thereof, and includes cigarette rolling machines, cigarette paper or other cigarette covering, effect of promoting a tobacco product;

"Superintendent" means the Superintendent of Public Health; "tobacco" includes cigarettes and smoking mixtures intended as a substitute for tobacco, and includes any tobacco product; "tobacco product" means products for the purposes of smoking wholly or partly of tobacco.