S.L. 217.5 Art. 2Definitions.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires -

"the Act" means the Immigration Act;

"average wage" means the average annual gross wage published by the National Statistics Office in the Labour Force Survey; "the Board" means the Immigration Appeals Board constituted under article 25A of the Act; "the Director" means the Director for Citizenship and Expatriate Affairs; "employment licence" means the licence referred to in article 11(3) of the Act; "family members" of the third country national granted long-term resident status means the following persons who are residing in Malta:

(a) the spouse who shall be twenty-one years of age or over;

(b) the unmarried minor children and of his spouse, including children adopted in a manner recognized by Maltese law;

(c) the unmarried minor children, including adopted children, of the long-term resident or of the spouse, as the case may be, where the long-term resident or the spouse has custody and the children are dependent on him;

(d) the children of the long-term resident or of his spouse, whose custody is shared, provided that the other party sharing custody has given his agreement and who have been authorized by the Director to reside in Malta with him; "international protection" means the status granted to refugees and the persons enjoying subsidiary protection as defined in article 2 of the International Protection Act and the Procedural Standards in

Examining Applications for Refugee Status Regulations; "long-term resident" means any third country national who has long-term resident status as provided for under regulations 4 to 7;

"long-term resident’s EU residence permit" means a residence permit issued by any Member State, including Malta, upon the acquisition of long-term resident status; "Member State" means any State which is a member of the European Union; "national minimum wage" means the wage published by means of a national minimum wage national standard order under the Employment and Industrial Relations Act;

"Principal Immigration Officer" means the person appointed to such office by the Prime Minister under article 3 of the Act and includes, within the limits of any authority granted by the Principal Immigration Officer under article 3(3), any public officer acting under such authority;

"third country national" means a person who is not a citizen of a Member State;

"uniform residence permit" means a permit issued under article 4A of the Act and, in particular, any authorization giving the right of residence within the territory of Malta to a third country national who is not dependent upon a citizen of the Union.