Conditions of Employment Act, 1936

Employer.

4.—(1) In this Act the word “employer” means a person, other than a person who is an exempted employer for the purpose of this section, who is liable for the payment of salary or wages or for the provision of instruction or experience or for both such payment and provision to a worker in consideration of the doing of any industrial work, or who is liable for the payment of salary or wages to an outworker for such consideration.

(2) Where the amount of any form of industrial work done in the carrying on of any undertaking is so small that in the opinion of the Minister the provisions of this Act cannot be conveniently applied to the employment of workers to do such form of industrial work in such undertaking, the Minister may, upon the application in the prescribed form of the person carrying on such undertaking, grant to such person a licence to employ workers in such undertaking to do such form of industrial work while remaining exempt from the provisions of this Act and while any such licence remains in force the person to whom such licence is granted shall in respect of the employment of workers in such undertaking to do such form of industrial work, be an exempted employer for the purpose of this section.

(3) Every licence granted under this section, unless previously revoked by the Minister, shall remain in force for the period specified therein and shall then expire.

(4) The Minister may at any time while a licence granted under this section remains in force revoke such licence by seven days' notice in writing to the person to whom such licence was granted.