S.L. 552.1 Art. 4Interpretation.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires -

"Act" means the Environment Protection Act;

"the competent authority" means the Planning Authority and such other body or person as the Minister responsible for the environment may by order in the Gazette prescribe, and different bodies or persons may be designated as the competent authority for different provisions and different purposes of these regulations;

"Department" means the Department for the Protection of the Environment under the guidance of the Director as defined in these regulations; "the Director" means the Director responsible for environment protection within the competent authority, or his designated representative; "Minister" means the Minister responsible for the environment; "occupier" means any person who is at the time occupying or using the land or the rural structure; "owner", in relation to any land or structure, means a person who is entitled, in his own right or as agent for another person, to receive the rent of the land or structure, or, where the land or structure is not let, would be so entitled if it were let;

"rubble wall" means a dry stone wall, built in loose unhewn or rough-dressed stones which stands by gravity and friction without the use of mortar; "rural structure" means any traditional rural construction, and also includes any free standing boundary wall in Ashlar masonry ([ebla tal-kantun) bordering upon a rural tenement.