S.L. 452.82 Art. 2Definitions.

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

"Act" means the Employment and Industrial Relations Act; "Commission" means the Commission of the European Union; "comparable employee" means an employee in an undertaking located in Malta who is engaged in the same or similar work or occupation, due regard being given to other considerations including seniority, qualification and skills;

"competent authority in Malta" means the Department of Industrial and Employment Relations;

"Member State" means a Member State of the European Union or of the European Economic Area and the European Free Trade Area;

"posted worker" means a worker who, for a limited period, carries out his work in the territory of a Member State other than the State in which he normally works"; "remuneration" means all the constituent elements of remuneration rendered mandatory by the Act, orders or regulations issued thereunder; "requesting authority" means the competent authority of a Member State which makes a request for assistance, information, notification or recovery of a penalty and, or fine;

"requested authority" means the competent authority in Malta, to which a request for assistance, information, notification or recovery of a penalty and, or fine is made. "sending party" means a service provider which is established in a different Member State other than Malta;

(2) Subject to the provisions of sub-regulation (1), terms and expressions used in these regulations shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meaning assigned to them in the Act.