S.L. 573.6 Art. 2Interpretation. 

In these regulations unless the context otherwise requires:

"Agricultural Advisory Committee" means the Committee established under regulation 15;

"Agricultural land" means any Government land which is mainly leased for the cultivation of agricultural products, flowers, fruit-trees or vines and for related agricultural purposes, including the erection of glasshouses, cloches or cold frames, but does not include grazing grounds;

"agricultural purposes" means the keeping of store cattle or other farm animals, and the storage of agricultural produce, farm machinery and equipment, tools and vehicles used exclusively in the agricultural sector for cultivation or irrigation purposes and should specifically provide, that the inter alia, garaging of vehicles, other than those used specifically in the agricultural sector for agricultural purposes, such as tractors and associated agricultural machinery, shall not be be permitted;

"agricultural use obligation" means a public deed entered between the Authority and a person or legal entity to whom an agricultural land may be transferred to with the purpose of limiting the use and any other conditions imposed by the Authority;

"authorised societies" means the Maltese Pyrotechnic

Association and, or its successors, and shall also include any other firework societies in relation to the town and village feasts and which are not members of the Maltese Pyrotechnic

Association and who hold all the necessary licences and permits in accordance with the Explosives Ordinance;

"Authority" means the Lands Authority established in accordance with article 5 of the Lands Authority Act or any person or any other entity that has been entrusted by contract or by law to administer Government land; "Board of Governors" means the Board of Governors of the Authority established by article 10 of the Lands Authority Act;

"Building" means any immovable property except for reservoirs or wells;

"direct collaterals" means siblings of the lessee, including adopted siblings, and the direct descendants of the siblings of the lessee, including the descendants of any predeceased siblings;

"family member" means the husband or wife of the lessee, a lineal ascendant, a lineal descendant, the husband, partner, or cohabitant of the daughter or the wife, partner or cohabitant of the son, the widow or widower of the descendants while not remarried;

"floor space" means space which is measured internally and incorporates the area of all floors however it excludes the wall thickness, the internal open spaces, the basement levels and the circulation spaces;

"lease" means a lease for an agreed total term not exceeding sixteen years for rent, in cash or by other consideration, which is paid annually at one rate or more and includes a lease which is tacitly renewed from year to year, but does not include emphyteusis or a lease agreement whereby the produce is shared between the landlord and the lessee; it also includes "sublease" in relation to a sub-lessor or sub-conductor;

"lessee" means that person who is recognised as such by the Authority.