s 5 Interpretation of this Part
5. 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 —(a) any hospital, clinic, sanatorium or other institution for the care of the sick; and (b) 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.