S.L. 549.7 Art. 2Definitions.

For the purpose of these regulations and unless the context otherwise requires -

" "Act" means the Environment Protection Act;

"Authority" means the Environment and Resources Authority as established under the Environment Protection Act;

"Chief Executive of the Water Services Corporation" means the official delegated by virtue of the Water Services Corporation Act, to be responsible for the control and management of the Water Services Corporation and includes any other officer in his Corporation who acts on his behalf for the purpose of the regulations.

"Department for Waste Strategy Implementation" means the government entity entrusted with the responsibility for waste management strategy implementation; "Director for Waste Strategy Implementation" means the official delegated to be responsible for the control, direction and management of the Department for the Waste Strategy Implementation, and includes any other officer in his Department who acts on his behalf; "depositor" means any person who deposits any rubble, waste or hazardous waste using a vehicle to transport it to a deposit site; "domestic waste" means waste which is not hazardous waste and which is collected from premises used exclusevely for human habitation, in Malta, "hazardous waste" means waste which is included in Schedule A and any other type of waste which the Authority has reason to believe to be hazardous;

"mixed waste" means mixed refuse, intended for collection by the respective Local Council’s agent or contractor, on the indicated day;

"rubble" means rubble originating in Malta and which is not soil

*The coming into force of the amendments made by Legal Notice 382 of 2009 is as follows:

(a) for waste deposited at public deposit sites by or on behalf of Local Councils, they shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st October, 2009; and

(b) for waste deposited at public deposit sites by or on behalf of other entities, they shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st April, 2010. and includes such material as dust, lime-stone or other kinds of stone, concrete, floor-tiles, ground stone, sand, gravel and rubble which results from excavations, ground preparation, demolition of buildings, road works and other similar works;

"vehicle" means any vehicle which is registered with the Director for Waste Strategy Implementation which is self-propelled or otherwise and which is used for the transportation of rubble, waste or hazardous waste and includes a truck, tipper, waste collecting vehicle, trailer, lorry, skip loader hopper barge or any other sea craft used for the disposal of waste at sea but excludes any vehicle licensed for domestic purposes which carries less than one metric tonne of rubble, waste or hazardous waste;

"waste" means all types of wastes originating in Malta which are transported by the vehicle, but does not include hazardous waste;

"waste desposit site" means any site on land or at sea which is licensed by the Authority for the deposit of rubble, waste or hazardous waste and which is included from time to time in Schedule B. "waste electrical and electronic equipment" or "WEEE" means electrical and electronic equipment which is waste as defined in regulation 4 of the Waste Regulations, including all components, sub-assemblies and consumables which are part of the product at the time of discarding;

"waste management facility" means a site or facility that allows for the storing, sorting, source segregating, treatment and transfer of waste.