S.L. 254.1 Art. 2Interpretation.

(1) Any reference in these regulations to the "Act" is a reference to the Postal Services Act and any regulations made thereunder unless the context otherwise requires, and subject to the provisions of subregulation (2), the provisions of article 2 of the

Act shall apply to these regulations.

(2) In these regulations unless the context otherwise requires:

"articles for the use of the blind" means:

(a) articles of correspondence to and from blind persons, impressed or otherwise prepared for the use of the blind,

(b) books, catalogues, newspapers and periodicals, impressed or otherwise prepared for the use of the blind or posted to any person for the purpose of being so impressed or prepared,

(c) aids for the teaching of braille to the blind,

(d) plates for embossing literature for the blind,

(e) any form of speech recording for the use of the blind, and

(f) braille instructional devices, including tools, precision instruments and games (including card games), and includes any other article which the Authority considers to be an article for the use of the blind; "box-holder" means a person in whose name a private delivery box is registered; "coin" means coin whether current or not, except such as is used or designed for purposes of ornament; "customer" means any person who may also be a postal operator, who purchases a postal service from a postal operator; "directive" means any directive that the Authority may issue in accordance with article 4 of the Malta Communications Authority Act;

"European Commission" means the Commission of the European Communities;

"franking machine" means a machine for making impressions indicating the value of the postage pre-paid on postal articles;

"impression slip" means the label affixed to a postal article and bearing on it an impression made by a franking machine indicating the value of the postage pre-paid; "incoming", as applied to a postal article of any description, means a postal article received through the post from a place outside Malta for delivery to any place in Malta; "Member State" means any member state of the European Union; "money order exchange arrangement" means any treaty, convention, agreement or undertaking howsoever so described between Malta and such other country, or which applies to both such countries or to one of them, or of which both such countries or one of them are party thereof, which regulates the issue, transmission and encashment of money orders through postal administrations;

"national regulatory authority" means any such body as is notified for the purposes of Community law to the European Commission by a Member State of the European Union as having been assigned tasks in the regulation of postal services; "outgoing", as applied to a postal article of any description, means a postal article posted in Malta for onward transmission through the post to a place outside Malta;

"paper money" includes:

(a) bank notes or currency notes, being current in Malta or elsewhere,

(b) money orders and postal orders,

(c) unobliterated postage stamps available for current use in Malta or elsewhere,

(d) treasury bills, bills of exchange, promissory notes, cheques, credit notes which entitle the holder to money or goods, and all orders and authorities for the payment of money, whether negotiable or not,

(e) bonds and coupons relating thereto, and other securities for money, whether negotiable or not, and

(f) coupons, vouchers, tokens, cards, stamps or similar documents, exchangeable (singly or with other such documents) for money, goods or services;

"postal arrangement" in relation to the transmission by post of postal articles between Malta and any other country, means any treaty, convention, agreement or undertaking for that purpose between Malta and such other country, or which applies to both such countries, or to one of them, or of which both such countries or one of them are a party; "Postal Directive" means Directive 2008/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 February 2008 amending Directive 97/67/EC with regard to the full accomplishment of the internal market of community postal services; "postal identifier" means any postage stamp, postmark or impression that is unique to each postal operator and which satisfies the following:

(a) it is affixed to, or impressed on, or printed on postal articles;

(b) it exclusively identifies the postal operator; and

(c) it clearly indicates to members of the public that those postal articles have been, or are intended to be, accepted by that postal operator for the purpose of being conveyed by post; "postal infrastructure" includes physical infrastructure such as post office boxes and delivery boxes, and infrastructure in non-physical form such as postcode information, information on change of address, redirection service, return to sender service, or arrangements made with others for the provision of any postal service; "postmark" means any mark or impression applied by a postal operator to a postal article for any postal purpose; "Poste Restante" means a service whereby a postal article is addressed to a specific post office in Malta to be called for by the addressee;

"prescribed" means prescribed by these regulations; "private delivery box" means a box installed in a post office and in which postal articles, other than parcels, are placed to await collection by that box-holder or by his authorised agent.