S.L. 499.1 ст. 2Interpretation.

(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires -

"the Act" means the Ports and Shipping Act;

"appliances" when used in relation to port work means any cranes, winches, derricks, lifting trucks, platform trucks, tractors and other cargo handling plant, equipment and appliances; "authorised place" in connection with the repairing of ships means any slipway, boat repair or lighterage repair workshop, dock or yard, approved by the Authority for the purposes of repairing ships;

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

"contractor" includes any person authorised by the contractor to act on his behalf;

"Deep Water Quay" means the new Deep Water Quay in Grand Harbour at Marina Pinto and all the area enclosed within the perimeter boundary thereto; "empty container" shall for the purposes of regulation 81 include an empty container on a trailer whether such container was previously landed loaded with cargo from a ship or otherwise or whether such container is deposited in any part of a port for shipment; "explosives" means any or all of the goods specified in Part I and Part II of the First Schedule; "fairway" means the whole of the navigable channel or channels of any port, and in the Grand Harbour of Valletta, extends from the breakwater entrance, past the mouths of Dockyard and French Creeks and south-east of Admiralty buoys 6, 7 and 8;

"gate pass-out" or "pass out check" means the gate pass out set out in the form specified in the Thirteenth Schedule;

"harbour ton" means, in respect of cargo or goods, unless otherwise specified, a ton of one thousand kilos weight or forty cubic feet measurement, whichever shall be the greater; "inflammable or dangerous goods" means any goods included in any of the classes specified in Part IV of the First Schedule; "naval ship" means a ship owned or exclusively chartered by the Government of any country for the purposes of the armed forces of that country; "passengers baggage" means packages containing the ordinary personal effects of the passenger, including pedal bicycles, perambulators, and the like, but does not include manifested cargo;

"quay" includes any pier, jetty, wharf or landing place; "steamship" includes any mechanically propelled ship;

"the tariff" means the dues and rates leviable under the Act; "unit load" and "unitised cargo" have the same meaning as that assigned to them by the Port Workers Ordinance.

(2) In these regulations words and phrases which occur in the Act have the same meaning assigned to them by the Act.