3.-(1) In this Law, unless the context otherwise requires-
“air receiver” means-
(a) any vessel (other than a pipe or coil, or an accessory, fitting or part of a compressor) for containing compressed air and connected with an air-compressing plant; or
(b) any fixed vessel for containing compressed air or compressed exhaust gases and used for the purpose of starting an internal combustion engine; or
(c) any fixed or portable vessel (not being part of a spraying pistol) used for the purpose of spraying by means of compressed air any paint, varnish, lacquer or similar material; or
(d) any vessel in which oil is stored and from which it is forced by compressed air;
“Αρχιεπιθεωρητής” σημαίνει πρόσωπο που διορίζεται σύμφωνα με το άρθρο 40 του περί Ασφάλειας και Υγείας στην Εργασία Νόμου~
“bodily injury” includes injury to health;
“building operation” means the construction, structural alteration, repair or maintenance of a building (including re-pointing, re-decoration and external cleaning of the structure) the demolition of a building, and the preparation for, and laying the foundation of, an intended building, but does not include any operation which is a work of engineering construction within the meaning of this Law;
“γεωργία” περιλαμβάνει την ανθοκομίαν, οπωροκηπευτικήν, λαχανοκομίαν, σποροπαραγωγήν, φυτοπαραγωγήν, δασοκομίαν, την εκτροφήν και φύλαξιν ζώων (περιλαμβανομένης της μεταφοράς των μέχρι του σημείου σφαγής ή εξαγωγής των), την μελισσοκομίαν, την σηροτροφίαν και την προετοιμασίαν της γης διά γεωργικήν χρήσιν και “γεωργικός” θα ερμηνεύεται αναλόγως~
“child” has the same meaning as in the Children and Young Persons (Employment) Law, or any Law amending or substituted for the same;
“class or description”, in relation to factories, includes a group of factories described by reference to locality;
“contravention” includes in relation to any provision a failure to comply with that provision and the expression “contravene” shall be construed accordingly;
“Court” means a District Court;
“δασοκομία” περιλαμβάνει-
(α) την προετοιμασίαν της γης και την δενδροφύτευσιν της διά την δημιουργίαν δάσους~
(β) την εκκοπήν δένδρων, την εκρίζωσιν ως και την πρωτογενή κατεργασίαν των δένδρων εντός του δάσους εις το οποίον είχον αναπτυχθή~
“driving-belt” includes any driving strap or rope;
“Επιθεωρητής” έχει την έννοια που αποδίδεται στον όρο αυτό από το άρθρο 2 του περί Ασφάλειας και Υγείας στην Εργασία Νόμου~
“ζώον” περιλαμβάνει οιονδήποτε ζώον ή πτηνόν φυλασσόμενον διά παραγωγήν τροφής, ερίου, δερμάτων ή γουναρικών ή διά τον σκοπόν χρήσεως του εις την διεξαγωγήν οιασδήποτε γεωργικής εργασίας~
“fume” includes gas or vapour;
“General Register” means the register kept in accordance with the requirements of section 79 of this Law;
“harbour” includes harbours properly so called, whether natural or artificial, piers, jetties and other works in or at which ships can obtain shelter, or ship or unship goods or passengers;
“maintained” means maintained in an efficient state, in efficient working order, and in good repair;
“mine” has the same meaning as in the Mines and Quarries (Regulation) Law, or any Law amending or substituted for the same;
“minerals” has the same meaning as in the Mines and Quarries (Regulation) Law, or any Law amending or substituted for the same;
“owner” means the person for the time being receiving the rents or profits of the premises in connection with which the word is used, whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other person, or who would so receive the same if the premises were let;
“parent” means a parent or guardian of, or person having the legal custody of, or the control over a child or young person, and includes in relation to any child or young person, any person having direct benefit from his wages;
“prescribed” except in Part IX means prescribed by order of the Υπουργικόν Συμβούλιον~
“prime mover” means every engine, motor or other appliance which provides mechanical energy derived from steam, water, wind, electricity, the combustion of fuel or other source;
“process” includes the use of any locomotive;
“quarry” has the same meaning as in the Mines and Quarries (Regulation) Law, or any Law amending or substituted for the same;
“railway” means any railway used for the purposes of public traffic whether passenger, goods, or other traffic and includes any works of the railway company connected with the railway;
“sanitary conveniences” includes urinals, water closets, earth-closets, privies, ashpits, and any similar convenience;
“steam boiler” includes any closed vessel in which for any purpose steam is generated under pressure greater than atmospheric pressure and includes any oil-burning apparatus or mechanical stoker used to fire any such vessel and any economiser used to heat water being fed to any such vessel, and any superheater used for heating steam;
“steam container” means any vessel (other than a steam pipe or coil) constructed with a permanent outlet into the atmosphere or into a space where the pressure does not exceed atmospheric pressure, and through which steam is passed at atmospheric pressure, or at approximately that pressure, for the purpose of heating, boiling, drying, evaporating or other similar purpose;
“steam receiver” means any vessel or apparatus (other than a steam boiler, steam container, a steam pipe or coil, or a part of a prime mover) used for containing steam under pressure greater than atmospheric pressure;
“tenement factory” means any premises where mechanical power from any prime mover within the close or curtilage of the premises is distributed for use in manufacturing processes to different parts of the same premises occupied by different persons in such manner that those parts constitute in law separate factories;
“transmission machinery” means every shaft, wheel, drum, pulley, system of fast and loose pulleys, coupling, clutch, driving-belt or other device by which the motion of a prime mover is transmitted to or received by any machinery or appliance;
“woman” means a woman who has attained the age of eighteen;
“work or engineering construction” means the construction of any railway line or siding otherwise than upon an existing railway, and the construction, structural alteration or repair (including repointing and repainting) or the demolition of any dock, harbour, tunnel, bridge, viaduct, waterworks, reservoirs, pipeline, aqueduct, sewer, sewage works, and shall include such other works as the Yπουργικόν Συμβούλιον may, by order, specify;
“young person” has the same meaning as in the Children and Young Persons (Employment) Law, or any Law amending or substituted for the same.
“Υπουργός” σημαίνει τον Υπουργόν Εργασίας και Κοινωνικών Ασφαλίσεων, περιλαμβάνει δε πάντα επί τούτω υπ’ αυτού εξουσιοδοτηθέντα λειτουργόν υπηρετούντα παρά τω Υπουργείω αυτού~
(2) A woman, young person or child who works in a factory, whether for wages or not, either in a process or in cleaning any part of the factory used for any process, or in cleaning or oiling any part of the machinery or plant, or in any other kind of work whatsoever incidental to or connected with the process, or connected with the article made or otherwise the subject of the process therein, shall, save as is otherwise provided by this Law, be deemed to be employed therein for the purposes of this Law or of any proceedings thereunder.
(3) A young person who works in a factory, whether for wages or not, in collecting, carrying or delivering goods, carrying messages or running errands shall be deemed to be employed in the factory for the purposes of this Law or of any proceedings thereunder.
(4) For the purposes of this Law, an apprentice shall be deemed to be a person employed.