S.L. 452.101 Art. 2Definitions.

(1) For the purposes of these regulations:

''the Act'' means the Employment and Industrial Relations Act; ''bereavement leave'' means leave to be granted to the employee without loss of wages on the occasion of the death of the spouse, parent, son, daughter, brother or sister of the employee, and includes a person who has, or in the past had, legal custody of the employee, or a person who is in the legal custody of the employee; ''birth leave'' means leave without loss of wages granted to a father on the occasion of the birth of his child; "Department" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Social Security Act;

''injury leave'' means leave on full wages, less the full amount of any injury benefit to which the employee may be entitled under the Social Security Act, if the employee suffers personal injury caused by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment, or by any of the diseases specified in the first column of the Fourth Schedule to the Social Security Act (being a disease due to the nature of his work) not due to any contributory negligence on his part or to any contravention of safety rules laid down by the management; ''jury service leave'' means leave to be granted without loss of wages to an employee who is called to serve as a juror, to enable him to attend to his duties at the Courts; ''marriage leave'' means leave to be granted without loss of wages to an employee on the occasion of his or her marriage; "quarantine leave" means leave to be granted to the employee without loss of wages in such cases where the employee is legally obliged to abide by a quarantine order confining the employee to a certain area or to certain premises as determined by the Superintendent of Public Health under the Public Health Act or by any public authority under any other law; ''sick leave'' means leave granted to the employee whenever an employee presents a medical certificate certifying incapacity for work; "special parental bereavement leave" means leave granted to the employee without loss of wages on the occurrence of the death of a child under the age of eighteen (18) years, without prejudice to bereavement leave.

(2) Subject to the provisions of subregulation (1), terms and expressions used in these regulations shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meaning assigned to them in the Act.