3Definitions

3 Definitions

3 Definitions

(1) In this Act, unless the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires—

Agreement means an enterprise agreement within the meaning of the Industrial Relations Act 1996.

Award means an award within the meaning of the Industrial Relations Act 1996.

Employer means any person employing any worker or workers and includes the Crown.

Inspector means an inspector appointed under the Industrial Relations Act 1996.

Metalliferous mine means any place, open cut, shaft, tunnel, drive, level or other excavation, drift, gutter, lead, vein, lode or reef wherein or whereby any operation is carried on for or in connection with the purpose of obtaining any mineral substance by any mode or method, and any place adjoining thereto on which any product of the metalliferous mine, as hereinbefore defined, is stacked, stored, crushed or otherwise treated and includes—

(a) any quarry,

(b) any place where two or more men are employed in connection with prospecting operations for the purposes of the discovery or exploration of or for any mineral substance whether by drilling, boring or any other method, and

(c) so much of the surface of any place and the buildings, workshops, changehouses, structures and works thereon surrounding or adjacent to the shaft, outlets or site of a metalliferous mine, as hereinbefore defined, as are occupied, together with the mine, for the purposes of or in connection with the working of the mine, or the removal from the mine of refuse, or the health, safety or welfare of persons employed in, at or about the mine.

Mineral substance means any substance specified in the Schedule.

Ordinary pay, in relation to any worker, means the sum of—

(a) where the worker is, on the prescribed date, remunerated wholly in relation to an ordinary time rate of pay fixed by the terms of the worker’s employment—

(i) the amount of the ordinary remuneration of the worker, as on the prescribed date, or

(ii) the average weekly amount of the ordinary remuneration which was earned by the worker as a worker during that part of the period of 5 years ending on the prescribed date during which the worker was so remunerated,