“medical officer of health” means any medical officer of health appointed by a local authority; “medical practitioner” means a person who is registered as such under any law relating to the registration of medical practitioners; “medical surveillance” means the keeping of a person under medical supervision. Persons under such surveillance may be required by the local authority or any other duly authorized officer to remain within a specified area or to attend for medical examination at specified places and times; “Minister” means the Minister of Health and Child Welfare or any other Minister to whom the President may, from time to time, assign the administration of this Act; “Ministry�� means the Ministry for which the Minister is responsible; “notifiable”, in relation to any disease, means required to be notified to any person or authority in terms if this Act; “occupier”, in relation to any premises, means— (a) any person in actual occupation of those premises; or (b) any person legally entitled to occupy those premises; or (c) any person having the charge or management of those premises; and includes the agent of any such person when he is absent from Zimbabwe or his whereabouts are unknown. In the case of premises used as a school, the expression “occupier” includes the principal or person in charge of the school; “owner”, in relation to any premises, means— (a) the person in whose name the title to those premises is registered, and includes the holder of the stand licence; or (b) if such a person or holder is dead, insolvent, mentally disordered or defective or a minor or under any legal disability, the person in whom the administration of that person’s or holder’s estate is vested, whether as executor, guardian or in any other capacity whatsoever; or (c) if the premises are under lease, the registration whereof is in law necessary for the validity of such lease, the lessee. When an owner as herein defined is absent from Zimbabwe or his whereabouts are unknown, the expression “owner” includes an agent of such owner or any person receiving or entitled to receive rent in respect of the premises; “parent” means the father and mother of a child, whether legitimate or not; “premises” means any building or tent, together with the land on which the same is situated and the adjoining land used in connection therewith, and includes any vehicle, conveyance, ship or boat; “public building” means— (a) any church, chapel, meeting-house or premises used for divine worship; (b) any theatre, opera-house, hall, exhibition buildings or premises open to members of the public, whether with or without payment; (c) any hotel or boarding-house, or lodging-house in which five persons or more, exclusive of members of the family or the servants of the owner or occupier, may obtain meals or sleeping accommodation for payment; (d) any hospital, school or institution, in which five persons or more are or are intended to be gathered at one time; “rateable property”, in relation to a local authority, means property which under any enactment is liable to be assessed by the local authority for any general rate leviable by it; “rural district”, in relation to a rural local authority, means any area outside an urban district which is under the jurisdiction of that rural local authority, and “rural area” has a corresponding meaning; “sanitary convenience” means any— (a) latrine, urinal, water-closet, aqua-privy, earth-closet, pit-closet, borehole-latrine or chemicalcloset; or (b) other device approved by a medical officer of health; which is being, has been or is intended to be used for the disposal of human waste; “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Ministry; “school” means any public or private establishment for primary or secondary or higher education, and includes a hostel or boarding-house kept for housing the pupils at any such establishment, and includes a Sunday school; “sexually transmitted disease” means any infectious or communicable disease that is normally transmitted through sexual intercourse. [Definition inserted by section 13 of Act 12 of 2002] “trade premises” means any premises used or intended to be used for carrying on any trade or business;