S.L. 117.43 Art. 2Interpretation. S.L. 595.39.  Cap. 442.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Agency" means the Malta Food Agency established by the

Malta Food Agency (Establishment) Order and which shall deliver a public service in relation to food from farming and fisheries;

"agricultural retailer" means a person who sells agricultural produce by retail from a shop or by hawking;

"farmer" means a natural or legal person, or a group of natural or legal persons responsible for a holding and who exercises an agricultural activity;

"local agricultural produce" means any produce which is cultivated or grown locally by a farmer or is derived from local animal husbandry;

"marketing centres" means the agricultural marketing centres established by these regulations;

"person" means a natural person, body of persons whether corporate or unincorporate, or an association;

"place of business" means any shop or other premises, truck or

*These regulations have been repealed by Legal Notice 80 of 2025. AGRICULTURAL MARKETING CENTRES

other vehicle, and any other place or device in or from which sales of agricultural produce is effected;

"purchase" means the acquisition, by any onerous title, of any local agricultural produce;

"sale" means any disposal under any onerous title whatsoever of local agricultural produce, and "sell" shall be construed accordingly;

"sales agent" means a person, including a body corporate, whether corporate, unincorporate or association, who has been authorised to sell local agricultural produce at the marketing centres by the Agency;

"society" means a co-operative society among farmers, duly registered under the Co-operative Societies Act;

"trader" means any person who deals or is concerned in, or performs any act of trade relating to the importation, sale by retail from a shop or hawking, exchange or disposal of agricultural produce, but does not include a farmer or livestock breeder.