2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires
"broadcast" means the transmission by wire or over the air,
including that by satellite, in encoded or unencoded form of words or of
visual images, whether or not such words or images are in fact received
by any person;
"editor" means the person responsible for the publication of any
printed matter and in respect of a newspaper or broadcasting service
includes any person complying with the provisions of section 35 of this
Act;
"Malta" has the same meaning as is assigned to it by section 124 of
the Constitution of Malta;
"newspaper" means any paper containing news, advertisements,
intelligence, occurrences, or any comments or observations thereon,
printed for sale or to be distributed free or in any other manner, and
published daily or periodically;
"person" includes a body of persons, whether it has a distinct legal
personality or not;
"printed matter" means any writing printed in typographical
characters or by lithography or any similar device or process on paper
or other substance, as well as any bill, placard or poster containing
any sign or script written, printed, painted, embossed or in any other
manner impressed, and includes any record, tape, film or other means
whereby words or visual images may be heard, perceived or reproduced;
"publisher" means a person who owns an enterprise publishing a
newspaper or who holds a broadcasting licence and includes any person
who owns facilities for the production or reproduction of any printed
matter;
"publication" means any act whereby any printed matter is or may be
communicated to or brought to the knowledge of any person or whereby any
words or visual images are broadcast;
"Registrar" means such person as the Prime Minister may,
from time to time by notice in the Government Gazette, designate as
Press Registrar for the purposes of this Act.
