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;

"Appellant"

means the body lodging an exemption appeal;

"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.

"Exemption Appeal"

means an appeal from a decision of the office or the exemption body concerning an application for exemption from a collective agreement of the Council, and includes an appeal from a decision—

(i)        granting an exemption;

"Exemption Committee"

means any committee of the Council authorize with hearing and deciding exemption applications;

"Interested Party"

means any party that made or opposed an exemption application, and, depending on the context, may include the appellant;

"Members of the Board"

shall mean permanent and alternate members of the Board.

"Law"

includes the common law.