S.L. 10.40 чл. 2Interpretation.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires -

"admission ticket" means a ticket supplied by the proprietor showing the total amount paid, including the duty payable under the Value Added Tax Act;

"arm" means any arm proper or improper as defined in article 64 of the Criminal Code and shall include any imitation thereof;

"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Police and includes any officer of the Malta Police Force;

"concert venue" means a place where a musical performance by one or more performing artists present at the venue is held for an audience; "inhabited area" shall have the same meaning assigned to it by article 2 of the Code of Police Laws;

"performing artist" does not include a disc jockey or an actor performing a part in a play other than a musical; "place of entertainment" means any dancing hall, discotheque or dancing theatre, excluding places where seats are provided for stage performances or plays to be watched by a completely seated audience, and includes any other premises licensed for the sale of wine, beer and spirituous liquor, and any place in the open air, where any entertainment, show or dancing is carried out but does not include a concert venue. Any unlicensed venue that is being used to host outdoor events for persons under the age of seventeen shall, for the purposes of these regulations, be considered as a place of entertainment. "proprietor" in relation to any entertainment means the person organising or managing the entertainment or who is responsible for the organisation or management thereof and includes any person having any pecuniary interest in the entertainment or in the proceeds thereof, and any person on whose behalf payments for an entertainment are received; and in the case of a juridical person, the expression "proprietor" shall also include the manager or any other principal officer of such juridical person. "Proprietor" shall not include the Commissioner of land in relation to places of entertainment or concert venues which consist of streets or other public property.