12. Illegal terms of contract of service

Terms defined in s 2

• commencement of this Act

  commencement of this Act

  Defined · s 2

  “commencement of this Act” means the date of commencement of the main substantive provisions of this Act;

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• contract of service

  contract of service

  Defined · s 2

  “contract of service” means, subject to section 10, any agreement, whether in writing or oral and whether express or implied, whereby one person agrees to employ another as an employee and that other agrees to serve him as an employee, and includes a contract of apprenticeship;

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• employee

  employee

  Defined · s 2

  “employee” means a person who has entered into or who works under a contract of service with an employer, and includes a workman and any public officer or employee of the Government included in a category, class or description of such officers or employees declared by the Minister, with the approval of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan, to be employees for the purposes of this Act or any Part thereof; but does not include any seaman, domestic worker or any person employed in a managerial, executive or confidential position or any person belonging to any other class of person whom the Minister, with the approval of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan, may by notification published in the Gazette, declare not to be employees for the purposes of this Act;

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