S.L. 452.156 Art. 2Interpretation. Cap. 452.    Cap. 252.  S.L. 452.87.

In this order, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Act" means the Employment and Industrial Relations

Act;

"collective agreement" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Act;

"customary holidays" means the days, other than

Sundays, declared for the time being to be public holidays by, or under the National Holidays and other Public Holidays Act;

"day" means a period running from midnight (12:00 a.m.) of one day to midnight (12:00 a.m.) of the next following day;

"double time" means twice the actual time rate applicable to the employee;

"factory" shall include "workshop", whether or not such workshop forms part of any establishment solely or mainly engaged in activities described in paragraphs (a) to (g) of article 1(3), and means any premises wherein or within the close or curtilage or precincts of which an employee or employees perform manual labour in any process for or incidental to any of the following purposes, namely:

(a) the making of any article or part of any article;

(b) the altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing, cleaning or washing, or the breaking up or demolition of any article; or

(c) the adapting for sale of any articles, being premises wherein, or within the close or curtilage or precincts of which, work is carried out by way of trade or for the purpose of gain, and to or over which the employer of the employees employed therein has the right of access or control;

"half day" means a period running from midnight to noon, or from noon to midnight;

"hours of work" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Act;

"manufacture" shall include the repair of goods;

"part-time employee" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Act; "period of employment" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Act;

"shift employees" means employees in any factory to whom this order applies who normally are required to be at the disposal of their employer twenty-four (24) hours a day;

"time-and-a-half" means one and a half time the minimum time rate applicable to the employee;

"wages" means remuneration or earnings, payable by an employer to an employee and includes any bonus payable under article 23 of the Act, other than any bonus or allowance related to performance or production;

"week" means a calendar week;

"rest period" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Organisation of Working Time Regulations;

"whole-time employee" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Act.