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indirectly) with:
 (a) your employer; or
 (b) a group consisting of your employer and one or more of your employer's *associates.
Example: Occupation specific clothing includes a nurse's uniform, a chef's checked pants and a religious cleric's ceremonial robes.
 (2) Protective clothing is clothing of a kind that you mainly use to protect yourself, or someone else, from risk of:
 (a) death; or
 (b) *disease (including the contraction, aggravation, acceleration or recurrence of a disease); or
 (c) injury (including the aggravation, acceleration or recurrence of an injury); or
 (d) damage to clothing; or
 (e) damage to an artificial limb or other artificial substitute, or to a medical, surgical or other similar aid or appliance.
Example: Protective clothing includes overalls, aprons, goggles, hard hats and safety boots, when worn to protect the wearer.

Meaning of disease
 (3) Disease includes any mental or physical ailment, disorder, defect or morbid condition, whether of sudden onset or gradual development and whether of genetic or other origin.

Subdivision 34‑C—Registering the design of a non‑compulsory uniform

Table of sections
34‑25 Application to register the design
34‑30 Industry Secretary's decision on application
34‑33 Written notice of decision
34‑35 When uniform becomes registered

34‑25  Application to register the design
 (1) The employer of an employee who has, or will have, a *non‑compulsory *uniform can apply to the *Industry Secretary for the *design of the uniform to be registered.
Note: This Division also applies to entities that are not employers: see Subdivision 34‑A.

Meaning of design of a uniform
 (2) The design of a *uniform includes features such as its colouring, construction, durability, ornamentation, pattern and shape.

Form of application
 (3) The application must be:
 (a) in writing; and
 (b) in a form approved in writing by the *Industry Secretary; and
 (c) accompanied by such information as the Industry Secretary requires.

34‑30  Industry Secretary's decision on application

Industry Secretary must decide to grant or refuse application
 (1) After considering the application, the *Industry Secretary must decide to either grant or refuse the application.

Criteria for grant of application
 (2) The *Industry Secretary must not decide to grant an application unless he or she is satisfied that the design meets the criteria set out in the *approved occupational clothing guidelines.
Note: The approved occupational clothing guidelines are created under section 34‑55.

When Industry Secretary taken to have refused application
 (3) The *Industry Secretary is taken to have refused an application if he or she does not make a decision by the later of the following times (the deadline):
 (a) the end of 90 days (the 90‑day period) after the day the Industry Secretary receives the application;
 (b) if the Industry Secretary, by written notice given to the applicant within the