Section 2
Interpretation
(1)
In this Act —
“employer” includes the Government of Brunei Darussalam;
“registered” means registered under this Act;
“Registrar” means the Registrar of Trade Unions appointed under section 6;
“trade union” means any combination, whether temporary or permanent, the principal purposes of which are under its constitution the regulation of the relations between workers and employers, or between workers and workers, or between employers and employers, whether such combination would or would not, if this Act had not been enacted, have been deemed to have been an unlawful combination by reason of some one or more of its purposes being in restraint of trade;
“worker” means any person who has entered into or works under a contract with an employer in any capacity, whether the contract is express or implied, oral or in writing, and whether it is a contract of service or of apprenticeship or a contract personally to execute any work or labour and includes any person ordinarily employed under any such contract, whether such person is or is not in employment at any particular time.
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(2)
Nothing in this Act —
(a)
shall affect —
(i)
any agreement between partners as to their own business;
(ii)
any agreement between an employer and those employed by him as to such employment; or
(iii)
any agreement in consideration of the sale of the goodwill of a business or of instruction in any profession, trade or handicraft; or
(b)
shall preclude any trade union from providing benefits for its members.