S.L. 433.26 Art. 3Interpretation. Cap. 433.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires: "the Act" means the Plant Quarantine Act; "the Department" means the Plant Health Department; "the Director" means the Director of Plant Health Department and includes, to the extent of the authority given, any officer or person authorized by the Director; "the field" means a site, including open fields and greenhouses for the production of susceptible plants; "the grower" means any person, entity, authority or other legal entity which is involved in the propagation, production or cultivation of susceptible plants;

"the grower representative" means any entity or any other legally constituted body, which manages, administers or is responsible for any growers; "the Minister" means the Minister responsible for agriculture;

"the Ministry" means the Ministry responsible for agriculture; "mass trapping" means the trapping of the pest en masse; "the pest" means the Tomato leaf miner moth (Tuta absoluta); "movement" means the movement of plants, plant products and other objects to which these regulations apply, from one place to another within Malta or within the European Union. "susceptible plants" means plants on which Solanaceae Tuta can be injurious, and includes tomato, absoluta Lycopersicon lycopersicum (L.) Karsten ex Farw and potatoes Solanum L. tuberosum