Section 5
Interpretation of this Part
of Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act 1955
In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires —“Commissioner” means the Commissioner for Labour, and includes any Deputy or Assistant Commissioner for Labour;“essential service” means any service, business, trade, undertaking, manufacture or calling included in Part 1 of the First Schedule;“lock-out” means the closing of a place of employment or the suspension of work, or the refusal by an employer to continue to employ any number of persons employed by him in consequence of a trade dispute, done with a view to compelling those persons, or to aid another employer in compelling persons employed by him, to accept terms or conditions of or affecting employment;“public health service” means —
any hospital, clinic, sanatorium or other institution for the care of the sick; and
any system of public conservancy or sanitation;“strike” means the cessation of work by a body of persons employed in any essential service acting in combination, or a concerted refusal or a refusal under a common understanding of a number of persons who are or who have been so employed to continue to work or to accept employment;“workman” means any person who has entered into or works under a contract with an employer, whether the contract be for manual labour, clerical work or otherwise, be expressed or implied, oral or in writing, and whether it be a contract of service or of apprenticeship or a contract personally to execute any work, and includes, for the purposes of any proceedings under this Part in relation to a trade dispute, a workman discharged during that dispute.
Definition
“Commissioner” means the Commissioner for Labour, and includes any Deputy or Assistant Commissioner for Labour;
Definition
“essential service” means any service, business, trade, undertaking, manufacture or calling included in Part 1 of the First Schedule;
Definition
“lock-out” means the closing of a place of employment or the suspension of work, or the refusal by an employer to continue to employ any number of persons employed by him in consequence of a trade dispute, done with a view to compelling those persons, or to aid another employer in compelling persons employed by him, to accept terms or conditions of or affecting employment;
Definition
“public health service” means —
any hospital, clinic, sanatorium or other institution for the care of the sick; and
any system of public conservancy or sanitation;
Definition
“strike” means the cessation of work by a body of persons employed in any essential service acting in combination, or a concerted refusal or a refusal under a common understanding of a number of persons who are or who have been so employed to continue to work or to accept employment;
Definition
“workman” means any person who has entered into or works under a contract with an employer, whether the contract be for manual labour, clerical work or otherwise, be expressed or implied, oral or in writing, and whether it be a contract of service or of apprenticeship or a contract personally to execute any work, and includes, for the purposes of any proceedings under this Part in relation to a trade dispute, a workman discharged during that dispute.