Section 2: Definitions

2. Definitions.__ In this Ordinance, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,__ (1) “day” means a period of 24 hours beginning at midnight ; (2) “employer” means the owner of any road transport service in which workers are employed, and where the business of such service is not directly managed by the owner, means the Manager, Agent, or Representative of such owner in the said service, and where the owner is a minor, the guardian of such minor, and in relation to any vehicle which is the subject of hire-purchase agreement, the person in possession of the vehicle under that agreement ; (3) “Government” means the Provincial Government ; (4) “hours of work” means the time during which the workers employed are at the disposal of the employer excluding any interval allowed for rest and meals ; (5) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Ordinance ; (6) “public place” means a road, street, way or other place, whether a thoroughfare or not, to which the public have a right of access, and includes any place or stand at which passengers are picked up or set down by a vehicle; (7) “road transport service” means a service carrying passengers or goods or both by road in vehicles for hire or reward ; (8) “vehicle” means any mechanically propelled vehicle, used or capable of being used for the purpose of road transport and includes a tramcar, a trolley-vehicle and a trailer; (9) “week” means a period of seven days; (10) “worker” means a person engaged on mobile duty, and includes drivers, cleaners, conductors and checkers employed by or in a road transport service ; (11) “year” means a period of twelve months starting from the date a worker is employed in a road transport service and ending on the date immediately preceding in the following calendar year.

Effective date: 1961-01-01

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