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Interpreta- don.

2. (1) In this Ordinance, save where the context otherwise

requires-

"alternative holiday" means a holiday granted or to be granted under

subsection (3) of section 5:

“Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Labour and, save where the expression "Commissioner of Labour" is used, also means the Deputy Commissioner of Labour, any assistant commissioner of labour and any labour officer;

"Director" means the Director of Medical and Health| Services;

"factory" means any premises or place (other than a mine) in which articles are manufactured, altered, cleaned, repaired, ornamented, finished, adapted for sale, broken up or demolished or in which materials are transformed and within the curtilage or precincts of

which-

(a) any machinery, other than machinery worked entirely by hand.

is used: or

(b) one person or more than one person is employed in manuul

labour:

"holiday" means, as the case may be-

(a) the statutory holiday:

(b) the alternative holiday;

(c) the day on which a female worker or a worker who is a young person is required by subsection (4) of section 5 to be granted a holiday; or

(d) the day that has, under subsection (5) of section 5, been sub- stiluted for the statutory holiday or the alternative holiday or the day on which a female worker or a worker who is a young person is required by subsection (3) of section 5 to be granted a boliday:

"holiday pay" means the holiday pay provided for by section 6:

(18 of 1960). "identity card" means a card of identity issued under the Registration

of Persons Ordinance, 1960;

"inspector" means any person appointed under section 3 of the Factories (34 of 1955).

and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance, 1955, as Chief Labour Inspector, a senior labour inspector or a labour inspector;

"labour officer" means any person appointed under section 3 of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance, 1955, as a labour officer, assistant labour officer or a Labour Officer (Industrial Undertakings);

"medical practitioner" means a person who is registered, or deemed to

be registered, as a medical practitioner under the Medical Regis- (25 of 1987). tration Ordinance. 1957;

“mine” means any work for the extraction of minerals from the earth, and includes any quarry or other works for the extraction of stone:

"prescribed", when used in relation to any form, notice or other document, means prescribed by the Commissioner of Labour under section 34:

"sickness allowance" means the sickness allowance provided for by

section 7;

"statutory holiday" means a day specified in subsection (1) of section 5 and also means a day on which a holiday is granted or is to be granted under subsection (2) of that section;

“worker" means a person to whom, by virtue of section 3, this Ordio-

ance applics, and includes a female worker;

"young person" means a worker of or over the age of fourteen years

and under the age of eighteen years.

(2) For the purposes of this Ordinance-

(a) the expression "industrial undertaking" bas the meaning that it has for the purposes of the Factories and Industrial Under- takings Ordinance, 1955, save that the word "factory" has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (1) and not the meaning assigned to it by subsection (1) of section 2 of the said Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance, 1955;

(5) any reference to days on which a worker worked for any person shall mean days on which the worker worked for that