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

All operations in the assembly and/or erection in the manufacturing establishment and/or manufacture and/or re-manufacture and/or modification of telecommunication equipment and/or any other equipment employing the principles of electronics and/or radio and/or any components used in the electronics and/or radio industry, including:

Telephone, telegraph and data transmission equipment, including celluar telephones;

HF, VHF, UHF, and microwave radio communication equipment;

automatic and manual telephone switching systems;

land mobile radio equipment;

supervisory and control systems;

signalling systems;

fault detection and alarm equipment;

public address and paging systems;

scientific, ultrasonic measuring and electro-medical equipment;

navigation aids;

mobile, marine, aircraft and broadcasting radio equipment;

closed circuit television equipment;

interference suppression equipment;

electrical and/or electronic test apparatus;

industrial electronic equipment;

computer equipment integral to communication and/or process control;

radar and allied equipment;

electronic distance measuring equipment;

modems;

but does not include the assembly and/or manufacture of domestic articles, i.e. car, home and portable radios, television, tape recorders and gramophone equipment, loudspeakers, together with sub-assemblies made solely for the use in the aforementioned equipment by the manufacturers of that equipment.

For the purposes of this Division—

‘electronics’ means equipment where the primary circuits are based on the conductance of electricity through a vacuum, gas or semi-conductor;

‘radio’ means equipment where the primary function is to transmit and/or receive intelligence without the aid of a physical conductor;

‘re-manufacture’ means the correction of faults in items of equipment returned to the original manufacturing establishment and processed on the normal production line.