Holidays (Employees) Act, 1961

Definitions generally.

2.—(1) In this Act—“the Act of 1936” means the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 ;

“the Act of 1938” means the Shops (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1938 ;

“day” means, in relation to a person whose spell of work begins on one day and ends on the next, a period of twenty-four hours commencing at the time at which the spell of work begins;

“employ” means employ, under a contract of service (whether the contract is expressed or implied or is oral or in writing) or a contract of apprenticeship, and cognate words shall be construed accordingly;

“industrial work” has the same meaning as in the Act of 1936;

“the Minister” means the Minister for Industry and Commerce;

“month” means any period of thirty consecutive days;

“non-working day” means, in relation to a worker, a day on which the worker does not under his contract of service normally work;”

“offence under any section of this Act” includes an offence under any subsection of a section of this Act;

“shop” has the same meaning as that word had in the Act of 1938, prior to the enactment of the Shops (Conditions of Employment) (Amendment) Act, 1942;

“member of the staff”, in relation to a shop, has the same meaning as that expression has in the Act of 1938, as amended by Section 2 of the Shops (Conditions of Employment) (Amendment) Act 1942, and “shop work” has the same meaning as in the Act of 1938;

“short day” means, in relation to a 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 a 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) A person in the service of a local authority shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to be employed by the local authority.