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. |