Section 2: In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

"average monthly earnings" means, in relation to a member, the average earnings determined by reference to the earnings used for the calculation of contribution liability during the five years in which that average is the highest; "Board" means the Board of Trustees referred to in section 8; "Director-General" means the person appointed as such under section 12; "earning" means all emoluments which are earned by a worker while on duty in accordance with the express or implied terms of the contract of employment or apprenticeship and which are paid or payable in cash to him at fixed or determined intervals of time— (a) in respect of normal periods of work to be performed by the worker; (b) where payment is calculated in relation to set tasks, in respect of the number of tasks completed by the worker; or (c) where payment is calculated in relation to the volume of work done, in respect of the volume completed by the worker, and includes emoluments earned by him on leave, any cost of leaving or prescribed allowance but does not include any presents made by the employer, value of any food concession, house rent allowance, overtime allowance, travelling allowance, bonus, commission, or any other similar allowance payable to the worker; No. 5 The National Social Security and Insurance Trust Act 2001 3 "employer" means— (a) the owner of an establishment or the person who or the authority which has the ultimate control over the affairs of the establishment and where such affairs are entrusted to a manager, managing director or managing agent, such manager, director or agent; (b) in any other case, the person with whom the worker entered into a contract of service or apprenticeship and who is responsible for the giving of his emolument; "establishment" means any office, shop, factory, mine, plantation or any other place where persons are employed on remuneration for work or business of any kind, including an establishment of Government; "Government" means the Government of the Republic of Sierra Leone; "member" means any person — (a) who has accumulated rights to a benefit under this Act; or (b) from whose earnings a contribution has been deducted for payment to the Trust; "Minister" means the Minister responsible for labour or social security; "self-employed person" means a person who has no employer but works on his own account; "Trust" means the National Social Security and Insurance Trust established by section 3; "worker" means any person who is employed for remuneration in any kind of work, whether manual or otherwise, in or in connection with the work of an establishment and who gets his remuneration directly or indirectly, from the employer, and includes any person employed by or through a contractor in or in connection with the normal work of the establishment, and— 4 No. 5 The National Social Security and Insurance Trust Act 2001 (a) is employed in Sierra Leone but not as a member of the crew of any ship; or (b) being a permanent resident of Sierra Leone, is employed— (i) as a member of the crew of any ship, the owners of which have an office or agents in Sierra Leone; or (ii) outside Sierra Leone for an employer in Sierra Leone. PART II—ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY AND INSURANCE TRUST [Margin: Establishment of National Social Security and Insurance Trust.]