S.L. 626.1 Art. 2Interpretation. Cap. 626. Establishment of Register.

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

''Act'' means the Sports Governance and Integrity Act;

''Authority" means the Authority for Integrity in Maltese Sport established by article 5 of the Act and any references in these regulations or in any other law or regulations to the Authority shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as including a reference to any person authorised by the Authority to act for or on its behalf;

''applicant'' means a Federation or National Federation or an Association or National Association or a club or a foundation having sport as its principal objective or an academy or sport school or any other person applying for registration in the Register with the Authority. For the purposes of these regulations, ''applicant'' does not include an athlete or any other individual;

''application form'' means the application form prescribed in the First Schedule and Second Schedule;

''Register'' means the Register of Sport Persons;

"registered person" means a person registered in the Register of Sport Persons in accordance with Part VII of the Act;

''Regulation (EU) 2016/679'' means Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation);

''statute'' means the statute or constitutive act belonging to the applicant or registered person.

(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of sub-regulation (3), unless the context otherwise requires, words and expressions used in these regulations shall have the same meaning as assigned to them in the Act.

(3) The definitions prescribed in the Act shall apply, mutatis mutandis, unless they are inconsistent with these regulations.

a 3. The Authority shall establish and keep updated an internal Register as provided in Part VII and Part X of the Act, and the said Register may have any such categories distinguishing the nature of registered persons, as the Authority deems necessary from time to time to keep a distinction on the type of registered persons:

Provided that the Authority shall make publicly available the list of registered persons.