40AInterpretation

1. In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires,—

   accompany, in relation to the accompanying of an enforcement officer to a place, includes remaining with an enforcement officer at a place, whether or not a journey is involved

   approved analyst means—

   1. a person who is designated by the Science Minister, by notice in the Gazette, as the analyst in charge of an approved laboratory; or
   2. a person who works in an approved laboratory and who is authorised, by the analyst in charge of that laboratory, to act as an approved analyst, either generally or in a particular case

   approved laboratory means a laboratory approved by the Science Minister, by notice in the Gazette, for the purposes of analysing blood specimens taken for the purposes of this Part or Part 6 of the Land Transport Act 1998

   blood specimen has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Land Transport Act 1998

   blood specimen collecting instrument has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Land Transport Act 1998

   blood specimen collecting kit has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Land Transport Act 1998

   blood specimen collecting procedure has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Land Transport Act 1998

   blood test means the analysis of a blood specimen

   blood test fee has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Land Transport Act 1998

   breath screening device has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Land Transport Act 1998

   breath screening test has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Land Transport Act 1998

   Commissioner means the Commissioner of Police

   court means the District Court

   designated safety, security, or marine environmental duties means, in relation to a ship, the duties identified as safety, security, or marine environmental duties in any of the following documents:

   1. a document outlining the safety management system of the ship:
   2. a document outlining the shipboard procedures for the ship:
   3. the employment contract for an individual seafarer

   enforcement officer means—

   1. a constable:
   2. a Police employee (other than a constable) who is authorised for the purpose by the Commissioner

   evidential breath test has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Land Transport Act 1998

   evidential breath-testing device has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Land Transport Act 1998

   hospital means a hospital care institution within the meaning of section 58(4) of the Health and Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001

   lawyer has the same meaning as in section 6 of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

   medical centre means any place where a medical examination or medical care or treatment is carried out or given, including a place on board a ship

   medical expenses means the expenses incurred by a medical practitioner or medical officer in taking a blood specimen

   medical officer means—

   1. a person acting in a hospital and who, in the normal course of the person's duties, takes blood specimens; or
   2. a nurse; or
   3. a medical laboratory technologist

   medical practitioner means a health practitioner who is, or is deemed to be, registered with the Medical Council of New Zealand continued by section 114(1)(a) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 as a practitioner of the profession of medicine

   passive breath-testing device has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Land Transport Act 1998

   positive, in relation to an evidential breath test, means an evidential breath test that indicates that the proportion of alcohol in the breath of the seafarer who underwent the test exceeds 250 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath

   private analyst has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Land Transport Act 1998

   Science Minister has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Land Transport Act 1998

   seafarer means a master, an officer, a member of the watch personnel, or a crew member of a vessel, who is subject to the STCW Convention

   STCW Convention means the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers done at London on 7 July 1978 (as amended on 7 July 1995 and 25 June 2010).