Of the same degree of significance was the circumstance that prior to Act 36 of 1964 the expression "Continuous Service" was separately defined by section 2(eee) as follows: "(eee) 'continuous service ' means uninterrupted service, and includes service which may be interrupted merely on account of sickness or authorised leave or an accident or a strike which is not illegal, or lock out or a cessation of work which is not due to any fault on the part of the workman;" section 2(eee) was omitted by the same Act 36 of 1964 which recast section 25 B. section 25 B as it read prior to Act 36 of 1964, in the light of the then existing section 2(eee), certainly lent itself to the construction that a workman had to be in the service of the employer for a period of one year and should have worked for not less than 240 days before he could claim to have completed one year 's completed service so as to attract the provisions of section 25 F.