S.L. 452.87 ст. 2Interpretation. Cap. 452.

(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires: ''the Act'' means the Employment and Industrial Relations Act;

''adequate rest'' means such rest periods, the duration of which is expressed in units of time and which are sufficiently long and continuous to ensure that, as a result of fatigue or other irregular working patterns, workers do not cause injury to themselves, to fellow workers or to others; ''civil protection services'' includes the police, fire brigades and ambulance services, the security and intelligence services, customs and immigration officers, the prison service, any voluntary rescue services, port and airport safety officers and air traffic controllers;

''Director'' means the Director responsible for employment and industrial relations;

''employer'' includes a partnership, company, association or other body of persons, whether vested with legal personality or not, and in relation to a worker means the person by whom the worker is, or, where the employment has ceased, was employed; ''family worker'' shall mean a relative of the employer to the second degree, ascending or descending as well as persons under the legal custody of the employer;

''Minister'' means the Minister responsible for employment and industrial relations;

''mobile worker'' means any worker employed as a member of travelling or flying personnel by an undertaking which operates transport services for passengers or goods by road, air or inland waterway; ''night time'' means the period between 10 p.m. of any one day and 6 a.m. of the next day; ''night worker'' means a worker who:

(a) works at least three hours of his daily working time as a normal course during night time; or

(b) works more than fifty per cent of his annual working time, or such lower proportion as may be specified in appropriate provisions of a relevant collective agreement during night time: Provided that for the purposes of paragraph (a) of this definition, the term ''normal course'' means those instances where the worker works such hours on the majority of days during which he works;

''offshore work'' means work performed mainly on or from offshore installations, including drilling rigs, directly or indirectly in connection with the exploration, extraction or exploitation of mineral resources, including hydrocarbons, and diving in connection with such activities, whether performed from an offshore installation or from a vessel; ''rest period'' means any period which is not working time and does not include leave to which a worker is entitled under these regulations; ''shift work'' means any method of organising work in shifts whereby workers succeed each other at the same work stations according to a certain pattern, including a rotating pattern, and which may be continuous or discontinuous, entailing the need for workers to work at different times over a given period of days or weeks;

''shift worker'' means any worker whose work schedule is part of shift work;

''working time'' means any period during which the worker is available for service to the employer and is carrying out his activity or duties, and includes any relevant training and any other additional period which is to be treated as working time for the purpose of these regulations under any relevant agreement and ''work'' shall be construed accordingly.

(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.