agricultural undertaking" means any work in which any employee is

employed under a contract of service for the purposes of agriculture,

horticulture or silviculture, the tending of domestic animals and poultry or
the collection of the produce of any plants or trees;
"apprenticeship contract" means a written contract entered into by a person
with an employer who undertakes to employ the person and train or have
him trained systematically for a trade for a specified period which shall not
be less than two years in the course of which the apprentice is bound to
work in the employer's service;
"approved amenity or approved service" means any amenity or service -

(a) approved by the Director General under section 29 (2) on

application made to him by an employer for its inclusion in a contract
of service; or

(b) provided for in any award made by the Industrial Court or in any
collective agreement;

"approved incentive payment scheme" means an incentive payment scheme

approved by the Director General under, and for the purposes of, section
601;
"collective agreement" has the same meaning assigned thereto in the
Industrial Relations Act 1967;
"confinement" means parturition resulting after at least twenty-eight weeks
of pregnancy in the issue of a child or children, whether alive or dead, and
shall for the purposes of this Act commence and end on the actual day of
birth and where two or more children are born at one confinement shall
commence and end on the day of the birth of the last-born of such children,
and the word "confined" shall be construed accordingly;
"constructional contractor" means any person, firm, corporation or company
who or which is established for the purpose of undertaking, either
exclusively or in addition to or in conjunction with any other business, any
type of constructional work, and who or which is carrying out such
constructional work for or on behalf of some other person under a contract
entered into by him or them with such other person, and includes his or their
heirs, executors, administrators, assigns and successors;

"constructional work" includes the construction, reconstruction,

maintenance, repair, alteration or demolition of any building, railway,
harbour, dock, pier, canal, inland waterway, road, tunnel, bridge, viaduct,
sewer, drain, well, dredge, wireless, telegraphic or telephonic installation,
electrical undertaking, gas work, water work or other work of construction,
as well as the preparation for, or the laying of , the foundations of any such
work or structure, and also any earthworks both in excavation and in filling;
"contract of service" means any agreement, whether oral or in writing and
whether express or implied, whereby one person agrees to employ another
as an employee and that other agrees to serve his employer as an employee
and includes an apprenticeship contract;
"contractor" means any person who contracts with a principal to carry out
the whole or any part of any work undertaken by the principal in the course
of or for the purposes of the principal's trade or business;