S.L. 36.20 Art. 2Interpretation. Cap. 36.

(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires -

"department" means the Department of Agriculture;

"Director" means the Director of Agriculture and includes any officer of the department duly authorised by him to act on his behalf; "Minister" means the Minister from time to time in charge of the department; "foreign animals’ wharf" means the wharf at Ras }an\ir in the Grand Harbour or such other place as the Minister may from time to time appoint by notice in the Gazette; "Ordinance" means the Prevention of Disease Ordinance; "observation" means the isolation of animals in the quarantine station; "quarantine station" means the Lazzaretto in the Marsamxett Harbour, the Foreign Animals’ Wharf or such other place as may be appointed by the Minister from time to time by notice in the Gazette.

(2) Words and expressions which occur in the Ordinance and which are not otherwise defined in these Regulations shall have the same meaning as is assigned to them by article 2 thereof.