General

18Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context requires otherwise—

“1998 Act” (“Deddf 1998”) means the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 (c. 39);

“agricultural wages order” (“gorchymyn cyflogau amaethyddol”) is to be construed in accordance with section 3 (but see also section 12(3));

“agricultural worker” (“gweithiwr amaethyddol”) means a person employed in agriculture in Wales, whether or not the whole of the work undertaken by virtue of that employment is undertaken in Wales;

“agriculture” (“amaethyddiaeth”) includes—

(a)

dairy farming;

(b)

the production of any consumable produce for the purposes of a trade or business or any other undertaking (whether carried on for profit or not);

(c)

the use of land as grazing, meadow or pasture land;

(d)

the use of land for orchards, osier land or woodland;

(e)

the use of land for market gardens or nursery grounds;

“consumable produce” (“cynnyrch defnyddiadwy”) means produce grown for consumption or for other use after severance from the land on which it is grown;

“employment” (“cyflogaeth”) means employed under a contract of service or apprenticeship and “employed” (“a gyflogir”) and “employer” (“cyflogwr”) are to be construed accordingly;

“modify” (“addasu”), in relation to an enactment, includes amend or repeal;

“the national minimum wage” (“isafswm cyflog cenedlaethol”) has the meaning given by section 10.