S.L. 646.4 Art. 2Interpretation.

(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires -

"Act" means the Health and Safety at Work Act;

"adolescent" means a young person of compulsory school-going age; "child" means a young person under fifteen years of age; "Director" means the Director responsible for industrial and employment relations; "employer" includes any person who gives out work to any child, or young person, or who gives out to any parent or guardian of a child or young person, or to any other person any work to be performed by a child or young person;

"parent" includes any person having the legal care and custody of a minor;

"rest period" means any period during which a young person is not at work, is not at his employer’s disposal and is not carrying out any work activities or duties; "training or apprenticeship scheme" means a training or apprenticeship scheme approved in accordance with the provisions of the Employment and Training Services Act, and shall include a work/training scheme and an in-plant work-experience scheme; "young person" means a person under eighteen years of age, and includes a child and an adolescent; "work" includes any service which is ordinarily performed by one person, or for another person, for gain, and includes service as an outworker or as a self-employed person, but does not include occasional, or short-term work in domestic service in a private household, or work which is not harmful, damaging or dangerous to a child or young person which is carried out in a family undertaking.

(2) In these regulations, words and expressions defined in the Act shall have the same meaning as they have in the Act, and the provisions of these regulations shall be read and construed in conjunction with the Act.