Cap. 210 Art. 2Interpretation.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires -

"association of persons" includes any society of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate and whether vested with legal personality or not;

"the Authority" means the National Employment Authority established by article 3 of the Employment and Training Services

Act;

"blind person" means a person who has no sight or whose sight is, or is likely to become, so defective that he is unable to obtain or keep any employment, or to undertake any work on his own account, for which sight is essential;

"compulsory school age" in relation to any person means the age at which such person ceases to be subject to the provisions of the

Education Act; "the Corporation" means Jobsplus established by article 5 of the Employment and Training Services Act;

"deaf person with speech" means a person who, even with a hearing aid, has little or no useful hearing and whose normal method of communication is by speech and lip reading; "deaf person without speech" means a person who has no useful hearing and whose normal method of communication is by signs, finger spelling or writing;

"disablement resettlement services" means such facilities as are designed to place in suitable employment registered persons;

"industrial rehabilitation courses" means such facilities of physical training, exercise and occupation conducive to the restoration of fitness, whereby persons with disability may be rendered fit for undertaking employment or work on their own account, of a kind in which they were engaged before they became disabled or of some other kind suited to their age, experience and

*See Government Notice No 138 of 7th February, 1969. "Minister" means the Minister responsible for labour;

"person" includes an association of persons; "person with disability" shall have, for any person over compulsory school age, the same meaning assigned to it in article 2 of Part I of the Equal Opportunities (Persons with Disability) Act; and the word

"disability", with respect to any person, shall be construed accordingly;

"placement officer" means any suitably qualified officer authorized in writing by the entity responsible for the register;

"prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made by the Minister under this Act;

"public service" has the same meaning as is assigned to it by article 124 of the Constitution of Malta;

"the register" means the register of persons with disability kept under article 5;

"registered person" means a person whose name is for the time being entered in the register;

"suitable employment" means such employment, or such work on one’s own account, as a placement officer, having regard to the age, experience and qualifications of the person with disability, considers suitable for that person; "vocational guidance services" means facilities designed to guide persons with disability in their choice of employment or work on their own account, of a kind suited to their age, experience and qualifications; "vocational training courses" means facilities for the training of persons with disability who are in need of training in order to render them competent to undertake employment or work on their own account, of a kind suited to their age, experience and general qualifications.