"battery repairer"
(grade 3 employee) (Chapter I) means an employee employed in a battery reconditioning, repairing and/or servicing establishment and who mainly or exclusively diagnoses battery faults and/or repairs, dismantles, re-plates, reassembles and/or reinsulates batteries.
"battery reconditioning, repairing and servicing establishment"
means any establishment or part thereof, other than a battery manufacturing establishment, which is engaged in the diagnosing of battery faults, recharging and repairing of storage batteries, and reassembling of storage batteries and/or their component parts.
"body shop assistant"
(grade 5 employee) (Chapter I) means an employee who in any auto body repair shop where at least one artisan of the type normally employed in this kind of workshop is actively engaged, under the supervision of such artisan, mainly or exclusively—
| (1) | removes and/or replaces, without making final electrical connections— |
Parts and units from motor vehicles, tractors, agricultural machinery and equipment and/or attachments thereof;
| • | body badges, boot lids and tailgates; |
| • | brake drums; except where the drum and hub are one complete unit; |
| • | cables, excluding electrical cables; |
| • | cooling systems, excluding air-conditioning; |
| • | cylinder heads, without torquing; |
| • | doors, excluding the final adjustments; |
| • | drive shafts, excluding front-wheel drives; |
| • | exhaust lines, where no modification is required; |
| • | flywheel covers, detachable; |
| • | fuel pumps, excluding injector pumps; |
| • | glass, other than rear lights; |
| • | non-electrical sunroofs; |
| • | panels exterior or interior, and fittings other than where welded; |
| • | radios and tape recorders, excluding the final electrical connections; |
| • | springs, leaf, front and rear; |
| (2) | removes and/or without the use of hand tools repositions and hand tightens rear axle housing assemblies; |
| (3) | removes but does not replace: |
| • | complete front axle assemblies; |
| • | dashboard component parts; |
| • | exterior panels where welded on; |
| • | front-wheel suspensions; |
| • | springs, front coils or wishbone type; |
| • | tow-bars and plug-in wiring units; |
| (4) | in relation to any vehicle, repairs body leaks by filling, and engine differential and gearbox leaks by tightening; |
| (5) | balances wheels with any machine made to balance wheels off the vehicle; |
| (6) | applies body fillers or other materials, welds and grinds metals where necessary, and applies primer of any colour to the exterior or interior of motor vehicles; |
| (7) | strips springs which have been removed from vehicles; |
| (8) | drills holes to templets; |
| (9) | fits safety belts to vehicles where anchor points exist; |
| (10) | fits loose seat covers when no alteration to them is necessary; |
| (11) | cuts away damaged body parts by means of impact cutter, hand or air operated, or with hacksaw, under the direction of a journeyman; |
| (12) | applies by brush, spray gun, aerosol dispenser or other means dye, paints, varnish, lacquer or other protective coatings to engines and/or any components or accessories mounted within the engine compartment, or to floor mats, seat surfaces, luggage compartments or side-kick plates; |
| (13) | fitting of front and rear windshields; |
| (14) | removing and/or replacing— |
| • | dashboard component parts; |
| (15) | blends paint colour by means of predetermined formulae; |
Provided that the performance of any of the operations enumerated in this definition shall not be construed as permitting the performance of any journeyman's work incidental to such operation;
[Note - The number of body shop assistants that may be employed in any one establishment is governed by the ratio provisions of clause 3 of Chapter I, Division C];
"bookkeeper"
(Division B) means an employee exclusively responsible for preparing and maintaining books of accounts, i.e. cash books, ledgers and journals, and balancing same up to trial balance stage only;
"brake drum skimmer"
(grade 5 employee) (Chapter V) means an employee who mainly or exclusively machines brake drums and/or discs and/or flywheels and who uses measuring instruments and/or may set and adjust lathes for this purpose;
