S.L. 546.4 Art. 2Interpretation. Cap. 546.      Cap. 552.    S.L. 546.01.   S.L. 546.01.      Cap. 363.   S.L. 546.01.   S.L. 546.01.  Cap. 595.   S.L. 546.01.    S.L. 546.01.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Act" means the Re-Use of Public Sector Information

Act;

"address" means the combination of details describing an addressable object being a bounded place used for habitation, work, entertainment or any other type of human related activity which is based on a hierarchical combination of geographic names of regions or localities, streets, buildings and doors or entry points together with a post code which uniquely identify a place where items or services may be delivered;

"addressable object" means any built structure or geographic location which is generally known by one (1) or more names, having specific geocodes for the latitude, longitude and elevation, where applicable, for such structures or place names and which can be plotted on a map;

*Vide Legal Notice 103 of 2026. (GEOSPATIAL) REGISTERS

"base map" or "official base map" means the digital national geographical database managed by the Planning

Authority as referred to in article 38(1)(e) of the Development

Planning Act, which is designed to serve as the underlying geospatial layer on which other spatial information may be referenced and linked to;

"building" means a specific type of location which represents a built structure which is included in the Buildings Register. Every building listed in the Buildings Register shall be identified in accordance with the location uniform resource identifier and geospatial details;

"building entry point" means any form of passageway or opening as part of a building accessible from a street and which is used to enter or exit such a building;

"country" means the specific type of location which includes the name of a geographical area or territory recognised at international level and as published by the International Standards Organisation through the ISO 3166 list of countries, which also includes names and codes of countries that previously existed. Every country shall be identified in accordance with the location uniform resource identifier and geospatial details;

"Data Governance Council" means the Data Governance

Council as established by Part XI of the Organisational

Structures for Data Sharing and Re-Use Regulations and for the purposes of these regulations shall have the same functions therein established;

"data owner" shall have the same meaning assigned to it in the Organisational Structures for Data Sharing and Re-Use

Regulations;

"data source" means the data as identified and requested by the Registrar for the purposes of the creation and maintenance of the Register and subsidiary registers;

"entity" means any entity or body corporate of any nature, whether public or private;

"good quality data" means data which is complete, unique, consistent, timely, valid and accurate, in the method of transmission as required by the Registrar; "locality" means a specific type of location which identifies a geographical area which has its geographical boundary clearly defined and, or is included in the base map and is recognised by the Local Government Act. Every locality shall be identified in accordance with the location uniform resource identifier and geospatial details;

"location" means the record containing the human readable information which, together with the geographic coordinates and spatial data of an addressable object from the base map, represent a particular place or physical structure;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for public sector information;

"official record" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in regulation 2 of the Organisational Structures for Data

Sharing and Re-Use Regulations;

"official register" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in regulation 2 of the Organisational Structures for Data Sharing and Re-Use Regulations;

"post code" means the system of codes created and applied, from time to time, by the postal services provider as authorised by the authority responsible for the regulation of communications. Every post code shall be identified in accordance with the location uniform resource identifier and geospatial details;

"public officer" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in article 124 of the Constitution;

"public sector body" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Act;

"public sector entity" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Act;

"public service" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Public Administration Act;

"region" means a specific type of location which represents a subdivision of Malta as may be identified and included by the Registrar. Every region shall be identified in accordance with its location uniform resource identifier and geospatial details;

"Register" means the Address Register as established in regulation 4; (GEOSPATIAL) REGISTERS

"Registrar" means the Registrar of Addresses who shall be responsible for the Register and subsidiary registers;

"regulatory authority" means the regulatory authority established by regulation 4 of the Organisational Structures for

Data Sharing and Re-use Regulations;

"street" means a specific location which is public or private and which serves as a thoroughfare or any other type of passageway and has a name recognised by the Registrar. Every street thus identified shall be linked to, and form part of, only one (1) locality or sub-locality. Every street shall be identified in accordance with the location uniform resource identifier and geospatial details;

"sub-locality" means a specific area within a locality. Every sub-locality shall be identified in accordance with its location uniform resource identifier and geospatial details;

"subsidiary register" means the subsidiary registers as established in regulation 4, as follows:

(a) the Buildings Register;

(b) the Streets Register;

(c) the Localities Register;

(d) the Post Codes Register;

(e) the Regions Register;

(f) the Countries Register; and

(g) any other subsidiary register as the Registrar may establish from time to time;

"uniform resource identifier" or "URI" is a web-compliant format for the allocation of a machine-readable persistent identifier for every record in an official register, including the different identifiers assigned to the different versions of each record;

"user" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in regulation 2 of the Organizational Structures for Data Sharing and Re-Use Regulations.