Industrial Relations Act, 1976
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Definitions. |
1.—In this Act— | |
“the Act of 1969” means the Industrial Relations Act, 1969 ; | ||
“agricultural employer” means a person who employs other persons as agricultural workers; | ||
“agricultural worker” means a person employed under a contract of service or apprenticeship whose work under the contract is or includes work in agriculture, but does not include a person whose work under any such contract is mainly domestic service; | ||
“agriculture” includes horticulture, the production of any consumable produce which is grown for sale or for consumption or other use, dairy farming, poultry farming, the use of land as grazing, meadow or pasture land or orchard or osier land or woodland, or for market gardens, private gardens, nursery grounds or sports grounds, the caring for or the rearing or training of animals and any other incidental activities connected with agriculture; | ||
“the Court” means the Labour Court; | ||
“the Minister” means the Minister for Labour; | ||
“the Principal Act” means the Industrial Relations Act, 1946 . |