(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires -
"act" includes a deliberate omission;
"advertisement" includes every form of statement to the public and every form of advertisement, whether to the public or not and whether in a newspaper or other publication, on television or radio or by display of a notice or by any other means, and references to the publishing of advertisements shall be construed accordingly;
"agency worker" means an employee whose contract of employment is as mentioned in paragraph (b) of the definition of such a contract in this subsection;
"associated employer" shall be construed in accordance with subsection (2);
"the Authority" means the Equality Authority;
"civil status" means being single, married, separated, divorced, widowed, in a civil partnership within the meaning of the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 or being a former civil partner in a civil partnership that has ended by death or been dissolved;
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