—(1) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires —
“animal” means any live vertebrate, including any fish, amphibian, reptile, bird and mammal but shall not include any human being;
“approved project” means any project that involves the use of any animal for any scientific purpose and that is approved by an institutional animal care and use committee;
“attending veterinarian” means a veterinarian employed by a licensee under rule 11;
“experiment” may consist of one or more separate procedures;
“guidelines” means guidelines issued or adopted by the Director-General under rule 18;
“institutional animal care and use committee” means a committee appointed by a licensee under rule 7;
“investigator” means a person who proposes, or is approved by an institutional animal care and use committee, to conduct an approved project;
“licence” means a licence issued by the Director-General under rule 4;
“licensee” means a person who holds a valid licence;
“personnel”, in relation to a research facility, means all the persons involved in the housing, feeding and general care or use of the animals, or who otherwise assist investigators, in the research facility;
“premises” includes the facilities, buildings, yards, paddocks, grounds and equipment therein;
“project” means an experiment or a series of related experiments that form a discrete piece of work or research for any scientific purpose;
“proposal” means a written outline of a project put forward for the consideration of an institutional animal care and use committee;
“research facility”, in relation to a licensee, means all the premises which belong to the licensee and which are approved by the Authority under the licence for the keeping or use of animals for scientific purposes;
“scientific purpose” means any purpose for which activities (including special breeding requirements integral to a research or teaching project) are performed to acquire, develop or demonstrate knowledge or techniques in any scientific discipline, including the purpose of research, teaching, diagnosis, field trials, product testing, production of biological products and environmental studies;
“veterinarian” means a person with qualifications in veterinary science who is licensed by the Director-General under section 53 of the Act.
(2) For the purposes of these Rules, a person shall be treated as keeping or using animals in his research facility or premises for a scientific purpose if he allows any person to use his research facility or premises for such purpose.