(a) The General Business Law (GBL), article 37-A contains many specific requirements on the provision of hearing aids. Where appropriate, a regulation may contain a specific reference to a statutory provision. The regulation and the statute should be read together.

(b) The term registrant or business registrant means any individual, corporation, partnership, trust, association or other organization maintaining an established New York State business address who engages in the business of dispensing hearing aids at retail.

(c) The term binaural hearing aids means hearing aids as defined in General Business Law, section 789(7) involving both ears.

(d) The term otolaryngologist shall include a physician who uses the designation otorhinolaryngologist or otologist to describe his medical specialty and is similarly entitled to practice such specialty.

(e) The term consumer includes a purchaser, customer or user of a hearing aid, or the parent or guardian of a purchaser, customer or user.

(f) A professional corporation formed thereby shall be deemed equivalent to any otolaryngologist or audiologist referred to in this Part.