S.L. 117.8 Art. 2Interpretation.

In these regulations -

''baker'' means a person whether in receipt of flour for the baking of bread or not, who owns or has been lent or who leases a bakery and the person who is licensed by the Commissioner of Police to keep a bakery;

''bread'' means bread, other than fancy bread, produced from subsidised flour, salt and water, with the addition, if necessary, of yeast and/or any other ingredient to improve quality of the bread as may be permitted by the Director from time to time; ''bread seller'' means a person who retails bread to customers registered under these Regulations and is in receipt of flour for the baking of bread under these Regulations; ''burdnar'' means a person engaged in the trade of carrying flour; ''butter'' means butter issued for ration purposes;

''distributor'' means a person appointed by the Director to effect the distribution of one or more rationed commodities to retailers and other persons; ''commodity'' means any article which is ordinarily sold to the public but does not include a rationed commodity; ''Director'' means the Director of Trade and includes any officer of the Department of Trade to whom the Director may from time to time assign any powers or duties under these Regulations; ''edible oil'' means edible oil issued for ration purposes; ''family'' includes all persons who habitually for not less than five days in the week sleep in the same tenement and have their food together, or who sleep in separate tenements in the same area and have their food together, and also persons within the above definition as regards sleeping notwithstanding that they take any or all their meals elsewhere; ''fancy bread'' means bread produced from unsubsidised flour; ''flour'' means all wheat flour, except such parcels thereof that may be certified by the Sanitary Authorities as unfit for human consumption; ''head of the family'' means the member of a family who owns or has been lent or who leases the tenement in which the family lives; ''miller'' means any person engaged in the production of wheat flour from imported wheat and includes also the Malta Millers Association, and any other association of persons performing such functions;

''paste'' means the paste produced from subsidised flour; ''person'' includes an association of persons; ''ration book'' means any document issued by the Director to regulate the purchase or sale of rationed commodities, and includes documents or permits valid only for one purchase or one sale; ''rationed commodity'' means any article mentioned in the Schedule to these Regulations; ''ration period'' means such period as may be prescribed by the Director by direction published in the Gazette in respect of the periodic distribution of rationed commodities;

''retailer'' means any person authorised to sell to the public by retail any commodity and/or rationed commodity;

''rice'' means rice issued for ration purposes; ''sugar'' means subsidised sugar; ''to supply'' includes, in the case of bakers and/or breadsellers, to deliver in accordance with such instructions as may be given from time to time by the Director; ''tinned milk'' means tinned milk issued for ration purposes.

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Control of Rationing Documents and Licences