Public Health (Sunbeds) Act 2014

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Interpretation

1. In this Act—

authorised officer” means a person appointed under section 16 ;

age card” has the same meaning as it has in Part IV of the Intoxicating Liquor Act 1988 ;

employee” means a person who has entered into or works under (or, where the employment has ceased, entered into or worked under) a contract of employment and includes a fixed-term employee, a temporary employee, a person who is training for employment or receiving work experience and a member of the family of an employer and references, in relation to an employer, to an employee shall be construed as references to an employee employed by that employer;

employer”, in relation to an employee—

(a) means the person with whom the employee has entered into or for whom the employee works under (or, where the employment has ceased, entered into or worked under) a contract of employment,

(b) includes a person (other than an employee of that person) under whose control and direction an employee works, and

(c) includes where appropriate, the successor of the employer or an associated employer of the employer;

Executive” means the Health Service Executive;

hire” includes to offer for hire or to hire or to supply, whether or not for profit, and cognate words shall be construed accordingly;

Minister” means the Minister for Health;

premises” includes a building, a dwelling or other structure, or part of a building, dwelling or other structure, a vessel, a vehicle, a tent, caravan or other temporary or movable structure;

“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Minister;

restricted area” means—

(a) a wholly or partly enclosed space on a sunbed premises where there is a sunbed, or

(b) a room, other than a space referred to in paragraph (a), in a sunbed premises where there is a sunbed;

sale” includes to offer for sale or to sell or to supply, whether or not for profit, and cognate words shall be construed accordingly;

sunbed” means an electrically-powered device designed to produce tanning of the human skin by the emission of ultra-violet radiation;

sunbed business” means, as the context requires, a business where one or more than one sunbed is made available for use or a business which sells or hires sunbeds or advertises or promotes the use, sale or hire of sunbeds;

sunbed premises” means premises on which a sunbed business is carried on.