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REGISTERED
SCOPE
Updated by Website
Administrator
18 February 2010.
The registered scope of the Council comprises the
activities in the whole of the
Republic of
South
Africa of the industries
identified and described as follows:
DESCRIPTION OF
INDUSTRIES
A.
FIBRE AND
PARTICLE BOARD
The manufacture of wood and bagasse based
fibreboard and particleboard panels in both raw and upgraded
form and including the upgrading of such product by the
application of the same and/or other material and includes
incidental activities.
B.
SAWMILLING
INDUSTRY
(a)
The processing of
timber or logs to lumber, beams, planks, baulks, sleepers,
wedges or other standard forms by removing the bark,
splitting, cutting up, sawing, drying, planning or conversion
of such timber or logs in any other manner and includes the
treatment of any of the said articles by heat or chemicals
where such treatment is carried on in conjunction with any of
the aforesaid activities and includes incidental
activities.
(b)
The manufacture
of wood-wool, boxes, shooks, mine supports, trays, crates or
other articles of which wood constitutes the main component;
and includes incidental
activities.
(c)
This industry
excludes the following activities where such activities do not
take place together with any other activities mentioned in (a)
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(i)
Joinery;
(ii)
The manufacture
of wagons, carts and boats;
(iii)
The manufacture
of coffins;
(iv)
The manufacture
of plywood, veneers, veneered boards, laminated boards, block
boards, chip boards or any similar products of which wood
forms the main component;
(v)
The manufacture
of containers or components of containers that are intended or
used for the packing or marketing of agricultural
products.
(d)
Sawmilling as defined in (a) above is not included in
the scope of this Bargaining Council when it is carried out in
an establishment, the principal activity of which is the
manufacture of wooden furniture and in which concern the
lumber, planks, etc. produced from their own sawmilling
activity are processed further into
furniture.
C.
PULP AND PAPER
The manufacture of pulp, paper, dissolving pulp
and paper board and includes incidental
activities.
D.
TISSUE AND ALLIED
PRODUCTS
The production or conversion and distribution of
tissue, absorbent, infant and adult and feminine care products
of any nature whatsoever, including the work encompassed in
designated trades, together with the occupations and
operations incidental thereto, whether or not the said trades,
occupations and/or operations are carried out separately or
collectively and includes incidental activities.
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