Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995)

Notices

Bargaining Council for the Metal and Engineering Industries

Main Collective Agreement

Part 2

4. Technical Schedules

Schedule D

Division D/29

Electrical Engineering (N.E.S.) Division
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Applicable to the Electrical Engineering Industry other than activities elsewhere specified in this Agreement.

 

For the purposes of this Division—

(a)the Electrical Engineering Industry means the industry concerned with the manufacture, including remanufacture, and/or assembly from component parts, of electrical equipment in the Republic of South Africa, namely, generators, motors, convertors, switch and control gear (including relays, contactors, electrical instruments and equipment associated therewith), electrical lighting, heating, cooking, refrigeration and cooling equipment, transformers, furnace equipment, signalling equipment, radio or electronic equipment and other equipment, utilising the principles used in the operation of radio and electronic equipment, incandescent lamps and electric cables and domestic electric appliances, and shall further include the manufacture of component parts of the aforementioned equipment;

‘Remanufacture’ means the correction of faults in items of equipment in a manufacturing establishment prior to sale and which items are returned to the production line, and/or the correction of faults in items of equipment returned to the original manufacturing establishment by the purchaser whilst under a guarantee;

(b)a pictorial drawing is a drawing which is not a wiring, a schematic, or a circuit diagram, and has not been altered by the use of pictorial symbols, but is a diagram which shows only outlines of components and where the circuit connections from component to component are contained, in either a wiring schedule or physically shown in a pictorial drawing;
(c)in the subsequent schedules, the headings of the different groups of products concerned shall be construed as provided solely for ease of reference, and any operation in any group may be used by any undertaking in the Electrical Engineering Industry.