S.L. 452.79 Art. 3Interpretation.

(1) In these regulations -

"Act" means the Employment and Industrial Relations Act;

"leave" means vacation leave, sick leave, birth leave, bereavement leave, marriage leave and injury leave and any other leave to which a whole-time employee is entitled;

"ordinary hours of work" means the hours of work exclusive of overtime;

"pro rata" has the meaning assigned to it by article 2 of the Act: Provided that:

(a) when the employee is in part-time employment on a variable time schedule, the weekly number of hours of work shall be the weekly average number of hours of work spread over successive thirteen week periods commencing on the first of January of each calendar year; and

(b) when the employee has not been in part-time employment for a period of thirteen weeks the average weekly number of hours of work shall be calculated over the number of weeks in employment;

*In the case of part-time employees whose part-time employment is one in respect of which social security contributions are not payable in terms of the Social Security Act, who have been engaged as such prior to the date of coming into force of the Part-Time Employees (Amendment) Regulations, 2010 - Legal Notice 117 of 2010 - and who are still in their part-time employment on the date of the coming into force of the said regulations, regulations 2 and 4 thereof shall commence to apply in their regard upon the expiry of six months from the date of the coming into force of the said regulations. "week" means a calendar week.

(2) Subject to the provisions of subregulation (1), terms and expressions used in these regulations shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meaning assigned to them in the Act.