S.L. 35.35 Art. 2Interpretation. 

In these regulations, unless the context, otherwise requires:

"border crossing point" means any crossing point between the territory of Malta and any other state;

"Central Visa Authority" means the Malta central authority responsible for the implementation of national visa policies and the provisions under the Schengen in so far as visa matters are Acquis concerned;

"extended service" means the fast-track processing of a long-stay visa application submitted with an external service provider and processed by the Central Visa Authority:

"external service provider" means an enterprise which has been contracted by the Government to accept the submission of visa applications and which may collect the relative fees on its behalf;

"long-stay visa" means a visa as defined in Article 18 of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for home affairs;

"Schengen means the Schengen Agreement and Acquis" includes all other acts building upon it or otherwise related to it, as well as related agreements;

"Schengen Agreement" means the Agreement between the Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders of the 14 June 1985 and the Convention of 19 June 1990 implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 between the Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders; "third-country national" means any person who is not a Union citizen within the meaning of Article 20(1) Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union and who is not covered by point 5 of Regulation (EU) 2016/399 of the European Parliament of 9 March 2016 on a Union Code on the Rules Governing the Movement of Persons across Borders (Schengen Borders Code).