S.L. 452.65 ст. 2Interpretation. Cap. 452.

In this Order -

"Act" means the Employment and Industrial Relations Act;

"Agreement" means the National Agreement on Industrial Relations signed on the 10th December, 1990 between the Government, Trade Unions and Organisations of Employers, represented on the Malta Council for Economic Development, which agreement was entered into in the Maltese language and the English text is a translation thereof; "ordinary increment" means an annual or periodic addition to wages to which an employee is entitled by way of an advance from one point to another of a pre-determined wage scale; "whole-time employee" shall have the same meaning as is assigned to it in any recognised conditions of employment in accordance with article 10 of the Act.