§ (a) Employment in the United Kingdom, or on any ship registered in the United Kingdom, or on any other British ship or vessel of which the owner, or (if there is more than one owner) the managing owner or manager, resides or has his principal place of business in the United Kingdom, under any contract of service or apprenticeship, written or oral, whether expressed or implied, and whether paid by the employer or some other person, and whether under one or more employers, and 833 whether paid by time or by the piece or without any money payment.
§ (b) Employment as an outworker in such classes of work as may for the time being be specified in any special Order made under Part VI. of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901.
§ (c) Employment in the United Kingdom in plying for hire with any vehicle or vessel the use of which is obtained from the owner thereof under any contract of bailment (or in Scotland any contract of letting to hire) in consideration of the payment of a fixed sum or a share in the earnings or otherwise, in which case the owner shall for the purposes of Part I. of this Act be deemed to be the employer.