“appropriate Minister”, in relation to a local authority or a body or authority referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (2), means the Minister responsible for administering the Act by or under which that local authority, body or authority was established; “approved veterinary surgeon” means a veterinary surgeon approved by the Director of Veterinary Services; “assistant health officer” means a person appointed to be an assistant health officer in terms of section five; “building” includes any structure whatsoever for whatever purpose used; “burial” means burial in earth, interment or any other form of sepulture, or the cremation or any other mode of disposal of a dead body; “carcass” includes any part of a carcass; “Chief Health Officer” means the person referred to in subsection (1) of section five; “child” means a person under sixteen years of age; “cost” or “expenditure”, when used in connection with the removal, detention, accommodation, maintenance or treatment of persons, means cost calculated in accordance with the tariff of charges approved by the Minister and based as nearly as may be on average cost or, if there is no such tariff, means actual cost; “district”, in relation to— (a) a municipal council, town council or local board, means the municipal area, town area or local government area, as the case may be; (b) a rural district council, means the council area or, where the Minister has in terms of subsection (2) declared a greater or lesser area to be a district in relation to such rural district council, such greater or lesser area; (c) in relation to any other body or authority declared to be local authority in terms of subsection (2), means the area declared in terms of subsection (2) to be a district in relation to such body or authority; “dwelling” means any house, room, shed, hut, cave, tent, vehicle, vessel or boat or any other structure or place whatsoever, any portion whereof is used by any human being for sleeping or in which any human being dwells; “food” or “article of food”, other than dairy produce as defined by the Dairy Act [Chapter 18:08], means any animal product, fish, fruit, vegetables, condiments, confectionery, beverages and any other article or thing whatsoever, other than drugs or water, in any form, state or stage of preparation which is intended or ordinarily used for human consumption; “guardian” means any person having, by reason of the death, illness, absence or inability of the parent or any other cause, the custody of a child; “health inspector” means a person registered as a health inspector under any law relating to the registration of health inspectors; “hospital or place of isolation” means any special hospital or any premises or portion thereof set apart and used solely for the admission and accommodation of persons suffering from infectious disease; “infected”, in relation to— (a) an infectious disease, means suffering from, or in the incubation stage or contaminated with the infection of that disease; (b) a sexually transmitted disease, means any form or stage of infection referred to in paragraph (a), whether the disease was transmitted through sexual intercourse or not; [Definition substituted by section 13 of Act 12 of 2002] “infectious disease” means any infectious or communicable disease specified in section seventeen or declared to be an infectious disease in terms of that subsection; “International Sanitary Regulations” means the International Sanitary Regulations adopted by the Fourth World Health Assembly at Geneva on the 25th May, 1951, to which the State is a party and any amendment thereto to which the State becomes a party; “isolated” means the segregation, and the separation from and interdiction of communication with others, of persons who are or are suspected of being infected; “land” includes any right over or in respect of land; “local authority” means— (a) a municipal council or town council; or (b) any— (i) a local board; or (ii) a rural district council; or (iii) any other body or authority; designated in terms of subsection (2) to be a local authority for the purposes of this Act; “medical observation” means the segregation and detention of persons under medical supervision;