S.L. 626.2 Art. 2Interpretation. Cap. 626.   S.L.626.03.    S.L.626.03. Cap. 593.

(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 and any reference in these regulations or any other law 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;

"academy" means an organisation of a commercial nature having the scope of providing training to athletes under the age of sixteen (16) years with the aim of providing an adequate ambience for their development and with the aim of encouraging participation of the said minors in events organised by the respective national sports organisations;

"administrator" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Establishment and Composition of the National

Platform for the Prevention of Corruption in Sport Regulations;

"association" or "national association" means an association of clubs on a national level which group together for the purpose of promoting a particular sport or for organising competitive games in such sport;

"club" means an association of persons, whether in the form of a civil partnership or a commercial partnership or otherwise, in which persons constitute themselves in or form part of an association mainly for the purpose of engaging in or organising sport activities;

"federation" or "national federation" means an association being mainly an association of a number of CORRUPTION IN SPORT (POWERS AND OBLIGATIONS)

national associations of the same sport activity or of associated sport activities;

"information" means any detail, fact, report, evidence, data, suspicion or any other information relevant to or which may shed light on any investigation undertaken by the platform;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for sports;

"platform" means the National Platform for the

Prevention of Corruption in Sport established by means of the

Establishment and Composition of the National Platform for the Prevention of Corruption in Sport Regulations;

''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);

"sport organisation" means a federation or a national federation or an association or a national association or club or foundation having sport as its main objective or an academy or sport school or any other person being registered in the Authority’s Register for Sport Persons or an organisation having sport as its main objective and which for any reason whatsoever is not yet registered in the said Register;

"sports school" means an undertaking, organisation or enterprise, by whomsoever owned or managed, the main function of which is to educate on a full-time or part-time basis in any particular sporting discipline or sporting disciplines.

(2) The definitions prescribed in the Prevention of Corruption in Sport Act shall apply, mutatis mutandis, unless they are inconsistent with these regulations.

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