S.L. 452.162 Art. 2Interpretation. Cap. 452.      Cap. 252.        Cap. 594.  S.L. 452.87.

In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Act" means the Employment and Industrial Relations Act; (CONDITIONS OF WORK)

"Category 1" includes charwoman or fatigueman, watchman, chainman, messenger, receptionist;

"Category 2" includes telephone attendant or operator, driver, printer;

"Category 3" includes clerk or clerk-typist, card puncher operator, tracer or drawing office assistant, taker off, lotto receiver assistant;

"Category 4" includes shorthand typist, bookkeeper or accounts clerk, law clerk;

"Category 5" includes site supervisor, draughtsman, quantity surveyor assistant or calculator, land surveyor, clerk of works, artist, accountant, audit clerk;

"Category 6" includes trade unions’ or associations’ officers with executive powers;

"chainman" means an employee wholly or mainly engaged in assisting a surveyor, whose duties may include the setting of a theodolite and the taking of readings therefrom, but does not include plotting;

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

"customary holidays" means the days, other than

Sundays, declared to be public holidays under the National Holidays and other Public Holidays Act;

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

"draughtsman" means an employee who is wholly or mainly engaged in making original sketches, drawing of designs from rough sketches and in the preparation of complete working drawings. A draughtsman’s duties may include carrying out outdoor field survey work and preparing estimates under the direction of an architect, civil engineer, electrical, marine or mechanical engineer or naval architect possessing the necessary qualifications to practise the profession in Malta;

"half day" means a period of half the number of daily working hours;

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

"law clerk" means a non-graduate who is employed to assist a lawyer, a notary public or a legal procurator in the formulation of pleadings or minutes of deeds or Public Registry notes, effects researches at the Public Registry, keeps appointments, records Court adjournments and otherwise helps his principal in the discharge of his work;

"learner" means a person other than an apprentice, who is over the age of fourteen (14) years but under the age of eighteen

(18) years and who is receiving training in any trade to which this order applies, and in respect of whom the employer holds a permit issued in accordance with the Employment and Training

Services Act;

"normal hours of work" means the hours of work per week agreed to between the employer and the employee in accordance with the provisions of article 3;

"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;

"quantity surveyor assistant or calculator" means an employee who is wholly or mainly engaged in the preparation of estimates of works under the direction of an architect and civil engineer or any electrical, marine or mechanical engineer or quantity surveyor possessing the necessary qualifications for the exercise of his profession in Malta;

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

"site supervisor" means an employee who assists an architect, a civil engineer or any other engineer authorised to practise in Malta in the supervision of work in progress on site;

"surveyor" means an employee engaged wholly or mainly in the carrying out of surveys of lands and sites for building and civil engineering purposes;

"taker off" means an employee who assists a quantity surveyor assistant or calculator in his work and takes measurements on site of work or from designs to scale, but does not make any calculations.

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

"tracer or drawing office assistant" means an employee who is wholly or mainly engaged in copying drawings and parts (CONDITIONS OF WORK)

made by a draughtsman by tracing them in ink or pencil upon transparent paper or cloth, using T-squares, compasses, pens and other drawing instruments;

"wages" means remuneration or earnings payable in money 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;

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