Conditions of Employment Act, 1936

Definitions.

2.—In this Act—

the expression “the Minister” means the Minister for Industry and Commerce:

the word “inspector” means a person who is for the time being an inspector for the purpose of the Factory and Workshop Acts, 1901 to 1920;

the expression “industrial undertaking” means an undertaking in which industrial work is carried on by way of trade or for the purposes of gain or for the supply of any public service or is carried on by a local authority or other public body in the exercise or performance of statutory powers or duties;

the word “worker” means a person, other than an outworker, who does industrial work for a salary or wages, or for the purpose of learning any trade or calling;

the word “outworker” means a person who for salary or wages does industrial work in his own home or in some other place not under the control or management of his employer on articles given out by or provided at the expense of such employer for delivery to such employer or to some other person nominated by such employer after the doing of such industrial work;

the expression “adult worker” means a worker whose age is not less than eighteen years;

the expression “young person” means a worker whose age is less than eighteen and more than fourteen years;

the word “woman” means a woman whose age is not less than eighteen years;

the expression “representatives of employers” means such association or all such associations of employers as are, in the opinion of the Minister, representative of the employers in relation to whom the expression is used or, where in the opinion of the Minister there is no such association, persons who are, in the opinion of the Minister, representative of such employers;

the expression “representatives of workers” means such association or all such associations of workers as are, in the opinion of the Minister, representative of the workers in relation to whom the expression is used or, where in the opinion of the Minister there is no such association, persons who are, in the opinion of the Minister, representative of such workers;

the expression “short day” means the day which is for the time being the short day for any industrial undertaking for the purposes of this Act;

the expression “ordinary working day” means any day which is not a short day, a Sunday, nor a public holiday;

the word “premises” includes buildings of every description, and also includes land with no building thereon, whether such land is or is not used in connection with a building;

the word “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Minister under this Act.