Cap. 424 Art. 2Interpretation.

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:-

"Appeals Board" means the Occupational Health and Safety

Appeals Board established by article 21(1); "Authority" means the Occupational Health and Safety Authority established by article 8(1); "Chairperson" means the Chairperson of the Authority; "Chief Executive" means the Chief Executive Officer appointed under article 10; "Code of Practice" means a standard, specification or any other written or illustrated form of practical guidance, instruction or control; "disciplined force" shall have the same meaning as is assigned to it by article 47 of the Constitution and shall include the Civil Protection Department established by the Civil Protection Act;

"employer" means any person for whom work or service is performed by a worker or who has an employment relationship with a worker, and includes a contractor or subcontractor who performs work or supplies a service or undertakes to perform any work or to supply services, and

(a) in relation to work performed under a contract for services means the contractor or subcontractor, but shall not include the directors, managers, partners or owners, occupiers or possessors on behalf of whom work is being carried out, except to such extent as regards any tools, materials or equipment provided by them with regard to any defects thereof or therein

*This Act has been repealed by Act XXXIII.2024.46. which are known and not declared or which could have been known;

(b) in respect of all other organisations including voluntary ones, or in respect of any other form of employment under a contract of service includes any of the persons in overall direction or having day to day management; "financial year" means any period of twelve months ending on the 31st December: Provided that the financial year which commenced on the 1st October, 2007 shall be for a period of fifteen months and shall terminate on the 31st December, 2008;

''House'' means the House of Representatives; "Minister" means the Minister responsible for occupational health and safety; "officer" means an Occupational Health and Safety Officer appointed under article 15(1), and furnished with a certificate of appointment issued according to the provisions of the said article;

"person" includes a body of persons and any body corporate established by or under any law;

"prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made under this Act;

"President" means the President of the Appeals Board; "public officer" in relation to article 24, has the same meaning assigned to it by article 124 of the Constitution, but does not include a judge of the Superior Courts or a magistrate of the Inferior Courts; "work" means any duty, activity, task or service producing a product or result, and being performed for payment or for free or in exchange for goods, for services, for profit or for benefit; "worker" means any person employed by an employer to perform work, or who provides a service to another person under a contract of service or for service, and includes a trainee, an apprentice and a self-employed person, but shall not include the crew of a vessel registered in Malta or any other person employed thereon as part of the ship complement;

"Workers’ Health and Safety Representative" means a person, elected, chosen or designated, as prescribed in regulations, to represent workers on all matters relating to the promotion and protection of their occupational health or safety; "work place" means any premises, place, facility, vessel or other thing or location, whether public or private, where work is carried out or to which the worker has access in the course of his employment, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, shall include a vehicle or vessel where such vessel is within a port in Malta or the internal or territorial waters thereof, or at any dockyard, harbour or other similar installation in Malta, other than a warship belonging to a foreign state.

(2) In this Act words importing the masculine gender shall include females, and this inclusion shall extend to all grammatical variations and cognate expressions of the word.