(1) In this Act -
"Act of 2015" means the Workplace Relations Act 2015;
"the Act of 1952" means the Social Welfare Act, 1952;
"adjudication officer" has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2015;
"adopting parent" means an employee who is an adopting parent within the meaning of the Adoptive Leave Act 1995;
"business" includes a trade, industry, profession or undertaking, or any activity carried on by a person or body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, or by a public or local authority or a Department of State, and the performance of its functions by a public or local authority or a Department of State;
"contract of employment" means - (a) a contract of service or apprenticeship, and (b) any other contract whereby an individual agrees with another person, who is carrying on the business of an employment agency within the meaning of the Employment Agency Act 1971 and is acting in the course of that business, to do or perform personally any work or service for a th
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