Section 9: Interpretation.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
"authorised officer" means an officer authorised or deemed to have been authorised under section 6 of this Act;
"Minister" means the Minister charged with responsibility for labour matters;
"national minimum wage" means the national minimum wage prescribed by section 1 of this Act;
"part-time work" means work of a duration of less than forty hours per week;
"wage" means total emolument paid every month to a worker for performing services on the basis of a forty-hour week howsoever the emolument may be designated;
"worker" means any employee, that is to say, any member of the civil service of the Federation or of a State or Local Government or any individual (other than persons occupying executive, administrative, technical or professional position in any such civil service) who has entered into or works under a contract with an employer, whether the contract is for manual labour, clerical work or otherwise, expressed or implied, oral or in writing, and whether it is a contract personally to execute any work or labour.