S.L. 499.25 ст. 2Interpretation.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Administrative Review Tribunal" means the Administrative

Review Tribunal established in terms of article 5 of the

Administrative Justice Act, and the provision of this Act shall apply to such an appeal; "airport" means any area of land especially adapted for the landing, taking off and manoeuvres of aircraft, including the ancillary installations which these operations may involve for the requirements of aircraft traffic and services including the installations needed to assist commercial air services; "airport user" means any natural or legal person, responsible for the carriage of passengers, mail and, or freight by air, from or to the airport in question; "airside services" means the categories of ground handling services listed in items 3, 4, 5 and 7 of the Schedule; "Committee" means the Airport Users’ Committee established under regulation 5; "Council Directive" means Council Directive 96/67/EC of 15 October 1996 on access to the groundhandling market at Community airports;

"Director" means the Director of Civil Aviation and, to the extent of the authority given, any person authorised in that behalf by the Director; "general aviation operations" means those operations specified in item 12 of the Schedule; "groundhandling" means the services provided to airport users at the airport as described in the Schedule; "locally-based aircraft" means an aircraft listed on the Malta Aircraft Register that undertakes movements that originate and terminate in Malta and is permanently located in Malta between inbound and outbound movements; "managing body of the airport" means a body that has as its objective the administration and management of the airport infrastructure, and the co-ordination and control of the activities of the different operations present in the airport;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for civil aviation, and includes, to the extent of the authority given, any officer authorised by him, in writing, to act in that behalf for any of the purposes of these regulations; "MTOW" means the certified maximum take-off weight of an aircraft expressed in kilograms as declared on the certificate of airworthiness;

"non-scheduled air service" means any flight not listed in the timetable of an airline including flights performed pursuant to a charter contract with one (1) or more charterers with the intention of covering the entire capacity of the aircraft, not being a general aviation operation as defined in these regulations;

"scheduled air service" means a series of flights possessing the following characteristics:

(a) on each flight seats and, or capacity to transport cargo and, or mail are available for individual purchase by the public directly from the air carrier or from the authorised agents;

(b) it is operated to serve traffic between the same two (2) or more airports either:

(i) according to a published timetable, or

(ii) with flights so regular or frequent that they constitute a recognisable systematic series; "self-handling" means a situation in which an airport user directly provides to aircraft under its Air Operator’s Certificate one or more categories of groundhandling services and concludes no contract of any description with a third party for the provision of such services; for the purposes of this definition airport users shall not, among themselves, be deemed to be third parties where -

(a) one holds a majority shareholding in the other; or

(b) a single body has a majority holding in each; "supplier of groundhandling services" means any natural or legal person supplying third parties with one or more categories of groundhandling services.