S.L. 188.3 Art. 2Interpretation.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires -

"Act" means the Maltese Citizenship Act; "Agency" means the Malta Individual Investor Programme Agency established by the Malta Individual Investor Programme Agency (Establishment) Order;

"applicant" means the person who applies or on whose behalf it is being applied for his naturalisation as a citizen of Malta under the individual investor programme either as a main applicant or as a dependant; "application" means an application made under these regulations; "application requirements" means the formal and substantial requirements which each applicant must meet, as set forth in these regulations;

"authenticated translation" means a translation done by either a professional translator who is officially accredited to a court of law, a government agency, an international organization, or similar official institution, or if done in a country where there are no official accredited translators a translation, done by a company whose role or business is professional translation; "certified copy" means a photocopy of an original document certified by a duly licensed lawyer, or notary public, a Maltese consular or diplomatic officer or a senior officer of the concessionaire to be a true copy of the original;

"concessionaire" means the entity awarded with the public service concession contract to design, implement, administer, operate and promote the programme, or any subsidiary of that entity, duly authorized by the public service concession contract; "contribution" means a contribution paid under these regulations twenty per cent of which shall be paid to the National Development and Social Fund, in accordance with these regulations;

*Repealed by Legal Notice 437 of 2020. See Regulation 31 of the same Legal Notice. "dependant" means:

(a) the spouse of the main applicant in a monogamous marriage or in another relationship having the same or a similar status to marriage, unless the Minister authorises otherwise on a case by case basis;

(b) a child, including an adopted child, of the main applicant or of his spouse who is less than eighteen years of age;

(c) a child of the main applicant or of his spouse who is between the age of eighteen and twenty-six years and who is not married and who proves, to the satisfaction of the Minister, that he is wholly maintained by the main applicant;

(d) a parent or grandparent of the main applicant or of his spouse above the age of fifty-five years who prove to the satisfaction of the Minister that they are wholly maintained or supported by the main applicant and form part of the household of the main applicant; or

(e) a child of the main applicant or of the spouse of the main applicant who is at least eighteen years of age, is physically or mentally challenged, and who is living with and is fully supported by the main applicant:

Provided that such person has the capacity to take an oath of allegiance;

"Approved Agent" means an audit firm, a law firm, a financial advisory firm, an intermediary firm or any other person or body which in all cases has been authorised to act as an authorised intermediary firm by the Agency for the purposes of these regulations;

"main applicant" means the person who, either as a single applicant or as the head of a family, undertakes to make a contribution for the purposes of these regulations and signs the relevant agreements and undertakings on behalf of his dependants; "Minister" has the same meaning as assigned to it in the Act; "National Development and Social Fund" means the fund established by the Government of Malta to receive the contributions; "non-refundable payment" means the portion of the contribution paid up front at the time of submission of the application; "police certificate" means a certificate of conduct, report or statement from a national law enforcement authority or other public authority in charge of criminal records on the status of an applicant’s criminal record; "programme" means the Individual Investor Programme of the Republic of Malta; "public service concession" means the public service concession awarded to the concessionaire to design, implement, administer, operate and promote the programme.