S.L. 452.80 ст. 2Definitions.

(1) For purposes of these regulations -

"Act" means the Employment and Industrial Relations Act;

"collective redundancy" means the termination of the employment by an employer on grounds of redundancy, over a period of thirty days, of:

(a) ten or more employees in establishments normally employing more than twenty employees but less than one hundred employees;

(b) 10% or more of the number of employees in establishments employing one hundred or more but less than three hundred employees; and

(c) thirty employees or more in establishments employing three hundred employees or more: Provided that for the purposes of calculating the number of redundancies, termination of an employment contract which occurs on the employer’s initiative for one or more reasons which are beyond the control of the individual employees, shall be assimilated to redundancies, provided that there are at least five redundancies; "contract of service for a fixed term" has the same meaning assigned to it by virtue of the Contract of Service for a Fixed Term Regulations. "Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen" shall have the same meaning as is assigned to it in the Merchant Shipping Act;

(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.