S.L. 419.4 чл. 2Definitions. Cap. 419. Cap. 454.

In this Order, the following definitions shall apply, unless the context otherwise requires: "Act" means the Malta Standards Authority Act; "Authority" means the Malta Standards Authority; "calibration" encompasses all the operations for the purpose of determining the values of errors of a measuring instrument; "Head of Directorate" means the person appointed to that post according to the provisions of article 3(17) of the Act; "legal metrology" is that part of metrology which deals with units of measurement, methods of measurement and of measuring instruments, in relation to the mandatory technical and legal requirements which have the object of ensuring the appropriate accuracy of measurements; "measurement standard" is a measuring instrument intended to define, to represent physically, to conserve or to reproduce the unit of measurement of a quantity, or a multiple or sub-multiple of that unit, in order to transmit it to other measuring instruments by comparison; "measuring instrument" is a device intended to be used to make measurements, alone or in conjunction with a supplementary device or devices; "metrology" is the field of knowledge concerned with measurement; "National Measurement Standard" is a measurement standard which is the basis for fixing the value in a country of all other standards of the given quantity;

"traceability" means the property of the result of a measurement which is related, through an unbroken chain of comparisons, to international measurement standards; "verification" means all the operations carried out by the Metrology Directorate having the object of ascertaining and confirming that the measuring instrument entirely satisfies the requirements of the Metrology Act for verification; "Working Measurement Standard" is a measurement standard which, calibrated against a national measurement standard, is intended to verify ordinary measuring instruments of lower accuracy.