S.L. 499.55 Art. 2Interpretation.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"authorised officer" means an officer of the Authority, the Police, or a community officer;

"the Authority" means the Authority for Transport in Malta established by the Authority for Transport in Malta Act;

"Code of Practice" shall have the same meaning as that assigned to it in the Regulations;

"commercial vessel certificate" shall have the same meaning as that assigned to it in the Regulations;

"commercial vessel operator’s licence" shall have the same meaning as that assigned to "licence" in the Regulations;

"hire" means the carriage of passengers against payment or compensation by the person who is transported; "internal waters" shall have the same meaning as that assigned to it in the Authority for Transport in Malta Act; "master" shall have the same meaning as that assigned to it in the Regulations; "passage boat" means the traditional Maltese dgħajsa licensed for the conveyance of fee paying passengers within the Grand Harbour and Marsamxett Harbour; "passenger" shall have the same meaning as that assigned to it in the Regulations; "persons with reduced mobility" shall have the same meaning as that assigned to it in the Code of Practice; "port" shall have the same meaning as that assigned to it in the Ports and Shipping Act; "the Regulations" means the Commercial Vessel Regulations;

"territorial waters" shall have the same meaning as that assigned to it in the Territorial Waters and Contiguous Zone Act; "water taxi operator" means a person who is in possession of a licence issued by the Authority to operate a water taxi; "water scheduled service" means a series of crossings from one landing place to another in terms of a published time table water taxi in the Code of Practice, but excludes a passage boat.