S.L. 549.35 Art. 2Interpretation. Cap. 549. S.L. 549.19

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"the Act" means the Environment Protection Act;

"competent authority" means the Environment and Resources Authority as prescribed by the Nomination of the Competent

Authority Order, and such other body or person as the Minister responsible for the environment may by order in the Gazette prescribe and different bodies or persons may be designated as the competent authority for different provisions and different purposes of these regulations; "Director" means the Director responsible for environment protection with the competent authority, or his designated representative;

"export" means the taking out of Malta of any specimen; "import" means the bringing into Malta of any specimen; "maltreat" means to subject a specimen to treatment or to put a specimen in a situation which is not natural in its life cycle, with the exception of specimens held for medical treatment or in dolphinaria or oceanaria with the permission of the Director of the competent authority; "Minister" means the Minister responsible for the Environment;

"permit" means a prior permission issued in terms of these regulations, and on the basis of the provisions of regulations 7 and 8; "specimen" means any marine mammal of the species or lower taxon listed in the Schedule, whether alive or dead, whether whole or in part, whether in the original form or after having undergone any transformation. It includes any part or derivative thereof, as well as any goods which appear, from an accompanying document, the packaging or a mark or label, or from any other circumstances, to be parts or derivatives of animals of those species;

"take" means to remove from the natural habitat.