S.L. 386.34 Art. 2Interpretation. Cap. 386.   S.L. 373.01.  S.L. 373.01.  Cap. 258.  S.L. 373.01.

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

"Act" means the Companies Act;

"APIs" means the Application Programme Interfaces;

"beneficial owner" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Prevention of Money Laundering and

Funding of Terrorism Regulations;

"biometric data" means the personal data resulting from specific technical processing relating to the physical, physiological or behavioural characteristics of a natural person, which allow or confirm the unique identification of such natural person, such as facial images or dactyloscopic data;

"controller" means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data;

"competent authority" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Prevention of Money Laundering and Funding of Terrorism Regulations;

"identity document" means a legally valid identity document as provided in the Identity Card and other Identity Documents Act;

"identifiable natural person" means a person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of such natural person;

"personal data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person and the said person is known as the "data subject";

"processing" means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether by automated means or otherwise, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;

"Registrar" means the person appointed by the Minister pursuant to article 400 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;

"relying party" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in regulation 7;

"repository" means the central data repository established by regulation 3;

"subject person" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Prevention of Money Laundering and Funding of Terrorism Regulations;

"user" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in regulation 6.

(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, words and phrases used in these regulations which are not defined herein, shall have the same meaning as assigned to them in the Act.