Cap. 455 Art. 2Interpretation.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:

"advisory committee" means an advisory committee established in accordance with article 21;

"Association" or "National Association" means an association of clubs on a national level who group together for the purpose of promoting a particular sport or for organising competitive games in such sport; "Board" means the Board of Directors of SportMalta;

"Chairperson" means Chairperson of SportMalta and includes, in the circumstances mentioned in article 4(4), the Deputy Chairperson or other person appointed to act as Chairperson: Provided that, in relation to articles 18, 20 and 21, "Chairperson" means the Chairperson of a Management Committee, Directorate or Advisory Committee, as the case may be;

"Chief Executive Officer" means the Chief Executive Officer of SportMalta appointed in accordance with article 11;

"club" means an association of persons, whether in the form of a civil partnership, or a commercial partnership or otherwise, in which individuals constitute themselves in or form part of an association mainly for the purpose of engaging or organising sport activities;

"designated property" means the immovable property referred to in article 16(1) and (3) or otherwise transferred to SportMalta;

"directorate" means any directorate established in accordance with article 20;

"employee" means a person employed by SportMalta; "Federation" or "National Federation" means an association being mainly an association of a number of National Associations of the same sport activity or of associated sport activities;

"financial year" means a period of twelve months ending on the 31st December:

Provided that the financial year which commenced on the 1st October, 2007 shall be for a period of fifteen months and shall terminate on the 31st December, 2008; "Malta Arbitration Centre" means the Arbitration Centre established under the Arbitration Act; "Malta Olympic Committee" means the Malta Olympic Committee established on the 9th June 1928 and having the Statute reproduced in the Second Schedule, as such statute may from time to time be amended, varied or substituted in accordance with the terms thereof; "Maltese" means persons who are citizens of Malta and such other categories of persons as the Minister may from time to time prescribe; "management committee" means a committee established in accordance with article 18; "Minister" means the Minister responsible for sports; "Ordinance" means the Commissioner of Land Ordinance and includes the Government Lands Act; "person" includes a body of persons and any body corporate established by law; "prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made by the Minister under this Act; "public officer", in relation to article 51, has the same meaning assigned to it by article 124 of the Constitution but does not include a judge or a magistrate; "registered person" means a person registered in the Register of

Sport Persons under the Sports Governance and Integrity Act "sport" includes all forms of physical or mental activity which, through casual or organised participation or through training activities, aim at expressing or improving physical and mental well-being, forming social relationships or obtaining results in competition at all levels, but excludes those activities held for therapeutic or clinical purposes or are part of the activities of health institutions or health centres, and includes any other activity as the Minister may from time to time and after consultation with SportMalta prescribe;

"sport facilities" means the property, movable and immovable, including designated property referred to in articles 14, 15 and 16 and any other property, corporeal or incorporeal, that may be used for the purposes of sport; "SportMalta" means the body established in accordance with article 4; "Sports Fund" means the fund referred to in article 19;

"sport school" means an undertaking, organisation or enterprise, by whomsoever owned or managed, the main function of which is to educate on a full time or part-time basis in any particular sport discipline or sport disciplines.