13   What are wages?

(1)  For the purposes of this Act, wages mean wages, remuneration, salary, commission, bonuses or allowances paid or payable to an employee, including:

(a)  an amount paid or payable by way of remuneration to a person holding an office under the Crown or in the service of the Crown, and

(b)  an amount paid or payable under any prescribed classes of contracts to the extent to which that payment is attributable to labour, and

(c)  an amount paid or payable by a company by way of remuneration to or in relation to a director of that company, and

(d)  an amount paid or payable by way of commission to an insurance or time-payment canvasser or collector, and

(e)  an amount that is included as or taken to be wages by any other provision of this Act.

(2)  For the purposes of this Act, wages, remuneration, salary, commission, bonuses or allowances are wages:

(a)  whether paid or payable at piece work rates or otherwise, and

(b)  whether paid or payable in cash or in kind.