S.L. 573.15 Art. 2Interpretation. 

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Act" means the Government Lands Act;

"agricultural land" means any land which is mainly leased for the cultivation of agricultural produce, flowers, fruit-trees or vines, and for purposes related to agriculture, including the erection of glasshouses, cloches, cold frames or tunnels, but shall not include land intended for grazing animals;

"agricultural purposes" means farms or other buildings intended primarily for the keeping of cattle for breeding and fattening, storage of farm machinery and equipment, storage of agricultural products as well as storage of tools and vehicles used for the purposes of cultivation or irrigation of agricultural land, and shall specifically provide, that the garaging inter alia, of vehicles, other than those specifically used in the agricultural sector for agricultural purposes, such as tractors and associated agricultural machinery, shall not be permitted;

"Authority" or "competent authority" means the Lands

Authority established in accordance with article 5 of the Lands

Authority Act;

"emphyteutical concession" means a temporary emphyteutical concession or sub-emphyteutical concession of land which was granted by the Government or its predecessors in title and which has expired before the entry into force of these regulations and which land the Government has not taken back possession of, and shall also include any other st emphyteutical concession which shall expire by 31 December 2030 or any earlier date;

"kiosk" shall have the same meaning as that assigned to it in the Catering Establishments Regulations and shall also include land occupied by a ticket booth and land occupied and used for the commercial activity of street vendors or mobile hawkers; CONCESSIONS "land" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Government Lands Act;

"recognised use" means the use to which the land has been granted including such land use recognised by the Authority or which the Authority considers to recognise.

"recognised person" means a person who was recognised as the emphyteuta or sub-emphyteuta by the Authority upon expiry of the emphyteutical concession, and any other person who may have the right to be recognised in place of the same, if the necessary documentary evidence is provided.