Unless the contrary intention appears, any expression used in this policy which are defined in the Labour Relations Act 66/95, shall have the same meaning as in the Act and any reference to an Act shall include any amendment to such Act.

Any reference to the singular shall include the plural and vice versa and any reference to any gender shall include the other gender and further unless inconsistent with the context:

"Act"

means the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995

"Council"

means the Bargaining Council for the Civil Engineering Industry and any functions to be performed by the Council in terms of this policy may be performed by the Council's General Secretary or any other employee of the Council to which the Council or General secretary has delegated such function in writing.

"Law" includes the common law.