S.L. 452.166 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;

"clinic" means any establishment, other than a hospital, where persons attend for medical examination or treatment , and shall include ante-natal clinics, X-ray clinics and medical laboratories, but excludes any institution which is not run as a profitable concern:

Provided that where a clinic is situated within a pharmacy, the employees of such pharmacy shall not be deemed to be employees of that clinic;

"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 under the National Holidays and other Public Holidays Act;

"double time" means double the actual time rate payable (CONDITIONS OF WORK)

to the employee;

"hospital" means any institutution providing medico-surgical treatment, any maternity home or hydropathic establishment, including homes for elderly persons and sanatoria but excluding such charitable institutions identified as may be identified by the Minister responsible for employment and industrial relations;"hours of work" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Act;

"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;

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

"semi-skilled worker" means a worker who would otherwise be classified as a skilled worker but has not undergone an apprenticeship in the trade;

"shift employee" means an employee who is regularly engaged on alternating periods of work in accordance with a predetermined roster;"time-and-a-half" means one-and-a-half the actual time rate payable 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;

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