Interpretation
1. (1) In this Regulation, “approval” means an approval under subsection 52 (1) of the Act; “day nursery” means a day nursery as defined in the Day Nurseries Act; “delivery agent care facility” means, (a) a place where an emergency hostel service that receives funding under the Ontario Works Act, 1997 is provided, (b) a domiciliary hostel that receives funding under the Ministry of Community and Social Services Act, (c) a place where a resource centre program that receives funding under the Day Nurseries Act is provided, or (d) a place where a recreational program that receives funding under the Day Nurseries Act is provided; “designated facility” means, (a) a delivery agent care facility, (b) a health care facility, (c) a school or private school, (d) a social care facility, (e) a university, a college of applied arts and technology, or an institution with authority to grant degrees; “health care facility” means a facility that provides overnight accommodation and that is, (a) a hospital within the meaning of the Public Hospitals Act or the Community Psychiatric Hospitals Act, (b) a private hospital within the meaning of the Private Hospitals Act, (c) a psychiatric facility within the meaning of the Mental Health Act, (d) a nursing home within the meaning of the Nursing Homes Act, (e) a home within the meaning of the Homes for the Aged and Rest Homes Act, (f) an approved charitable institution within the meaning of the Charitable Institutions Act that is approved under section 3 of that Act as, (i) a halfway house where rehabilitative residential group care may be provided for adult persons, (ii) a home for the aged, or (iii) a home where residential group care may be provided for handicapped or convalescent adult persons, (g) a cancer centre established by the Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation under the Cancer Act, (h) a home for special care within the meaning of the Homes for Special Care Act, (i) an approved home within the meaning of the Mental Hospitals Act, (j) a commercially operated residence for seniors or retired persons, or any other similar commercially operated residence, where attainment of a mature age is a factor in being accepted for occupancy, (k) a nursing station, health centre, clinic or other facility that receives funding through the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s Underserviced Area Program, or (l) a facility owned or leased by a person who receives funding from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care for one or more of the following health care support services that are provided to or are available to residents of the facility: (i) a residential treatment services program, (ii) a withdrawal management services program, (iii) a dedicated supportive housing project; “infiltration gallery” means a subsurface ground water collection system constructed with open-jointed or perforated pipes that discharge collected water into a watertight chamber; “interested authority” means, (a) with respect to a delivery agent care facility, the delivery agent designated under the Ontario Works Act, 1997 or the Day Nurseries Act for the geographic area in which the facility is located, or any successor of that delivery agent, (b) with respect to a health care facility, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, or any successor of that ministry, (c) with respect to a school, the Ministry of Education, or any successor of that ministry, (d) with respect to a social care facility, the Ministry of Community and Social Services, or any successor of that ministry, or (e) with respect to a university, a college of applied arts and technology, or an institution with authority to grant degrees, the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, or any successor of that ministry; “plumbing” means plumbing to which the Building Code Act, 1992 applies; “private school” means a private school as defined in the Education Act; “professional engineer” means a professional engineer as defined in the Professional Engineers Act; “school” means a school as defined in the Education Act; “social care facility” means, (a) a facility designated by the regulations under the Developmental Services Act as a facility to which that Act applies, (b) a residence licensed as a children’s residence under the Child and Family Services Act, (c) a facility where child development services, child treatment services, child welfare services, community support services or young offenders services, within the meaning of the Child and Family Services Act, are provided, unless the facility is located in a private residence, (d) a facility where child and family intervention services, within the meaning of Regulation 70 of the Revised Regulations of Ontario, 1990 made under the Child and Family Services Act, are provided, unless the facility is located in a private residence, (e) a place where an emergency shelter service that receives funding under the Ministry of Community and Social Services Act is provided, unless the place is located in a private residence, (f) a day nursery, (g) a sheltered workshop that receives funding under the Developmental Services Act or the Ministry of Community and Social Services Act, (h) a place where a supported employment program that receives funding under the Developmental Services Act or the Ministry of Community and Social Services Act is provided, (i) a place where an adults’ community support service that receives funding under the Developmental Services Act is provided, unless the place is located in a private residence, (j) a place where an employment preparation, training and job placement program that receives funding under the Developmental Services Act or the Ontario Disability Support Program Act, 1997 is provided, (k) a place where a violence against women program that receives funding under the Ministry of Community and Social Services Act is provided, unless the place is located in a private residence, (l) a place where an aboriginal healing and wellness program is provided; “trained person” means, (a) with respect to any water treatment or distribution system, a person who holds a Class I, Class II, Class III or Class IV water treatment facility operator’s licence or water distribution facility operator’s licence issued under Ontario Regulation 435/93 (Water Works and Sewage Works), or (b) with respect to a water treatment or distribution system for which none of the water works that are part of the system require an approval, a person who, in the preceding 36 months, successfully completed a course approved by the Director relating to functions that are required by this Regulation to be performed by trained persons. O. Reg. 505/01, s. 1 (1). (2) For the purposes of this Regulation, a school or private school is open on a day if, at any time during that day, there are any persons inside any school building, other than the principal, a vice-principal or other academic administrator, or a member of the teaching, custodial or security staff. O. Reg. 505/01, s. 1 (2). (3) For the purposes of this Regulation, a day nursery is open on a day if, at any time during that day, any of the children cared for are present in the day nursery. O. Reg. 505/01, s. 1 (3). (4) For the purpose of this Regulation, a laboratory is an accredited laboratory for a parameter if, (a) the laboratory is accredited for analysis of that parameter by the Standards Council of Canada; or (b) the laboratory has obtained an accreditation for analysis of that parameter that, in the Director’s opinion, is equivalent to accreditation by the Standards Council of Canada. O. Reg. 505/01, s. 1 (4). (5) For the purpose of this Regulation, analysis for a microbiological parameter shall be deemed to be carried out in an accredited laboratory for that parameter if it is carried out in an Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care laboratory by a member of the College of Medical Laboratory Technologists of Ontario. O. Reg. 505/01, s. 1 (5).