S.L. 594.18 Art. 2Interpretation.

In these regulations unless the context otherwise requires:

"Act" means the Employment and Training Services Act;

"advertisement" includes any advert in any publication or broadcast on any radio or television station or cable network; "applicant for employment" includes any person who seeks to avail himself of opportunities for employment offered by an employment agency or employment business;

"Authority" means the National Employment Authority set up in terms of article 3 of the Act;

"competent person" means a fit and proper person approved by the Director to manage an employment agency or employment business and who is in possession of the qualifications and the experience laid down in regulation 7; "conditions of employment" means wages, the period of employment, the hours of work and leave; "Director" means the Director of Industrial and Employment Relations and includes any officer of the Department of Industrial and Employment Relations who is authorised by the Director to act on his behalf; "editor" shall have the same meaning as is assigned to it by the Media and Defamation Act; "employer" includes a partnership, company, association or other body of persons, whether vested with legal personality or not; "employment" includes also self-employment; "employment agency" or "employment business" means any activity carried out in Malta for the recruitment of persons for employment in Malta or outside Malta; "employment services" include the keeping of any register of applicants for employment or the referral of applicants for employment, the placing in employment of applicants for employment; the placing of adverts for the filling of employment vacancies, the interviewing and selection of applicants for employment and the offering of employment contracts for or on behalf of any employer to applicants for employment;

*These regulations have been repealed by Legal Notice 271 of 2023. "licensee" means the holder of a licence to conduct an employment agency or an employment business; "person" includes a body of persons and a body corporate established by law; "user" includes any employer or any person other than an applicant for employment who makes use of any services provided by an employment agency or employment business.