Agricultural Workers (Holidays and Wages) Act, 1969
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Interpretation. |
2.—(1) In this Act— | |
“the Act of 1936” means the Agricultural Wages Act, 1936 ; | ||
“the Act of 1950” means the Agricultural Workers (Holidays) Act, 1950 ; | ||
“non-working day” means, in relation to an agricultural worker, a day on which the worker does not under his contract of service normally work; | ||
“short day” means, in relation to an agricultural worker, a day on which the worker under his contract of service normally works for less than a full day; | ||
“week” means any period of seven consecutive days; | ||
“working day” means, in relation to an agricultural worker, a day which— | ||
(a) is a week-day, and | ||
(b) is not— | ||
(i) a public holiday, | ||
(ii) a day within which any period of twenty-four consecutive hours of rest required to be allowed to the worker under any other enactment falls, | ||
(iii) a non-working day, or | ||
(iv) a short day. | ||
(2) An agricultural employer shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to allow an agricultural worker employed by him a whole holiday on a particular day if, but only if, he does not permit the worker to do on that day any work for him. |