- associated fund-raising body
means a body of persons the profits of which are applied wholly for the purposes of a charity or voluntary organisation;
- charity
means a body of persons, or the trustees of a trust, established for charitable purposes only;
- civil proceedings
means proceedings before an employment tribunal or civil proceedings before any other court;
- contract of employment
means a contract of service or apprenticeship, whether express or implied, and (if it is express) whether oral or in writing.
- course of further or higher education
means—
- cross-boundary petroleum field
means a petroleum field that extends across the boundary between the United Kingdom sector of the continental shelf and a foreign sector of the continental shelf, • “foreign sector of the continental shelf” means an area outside the territorial waters of any state, within which rights with respect to the sea-bed and subsoil and their natural resources are exercisable by a state other than the United Kingdom, • “petroleum field” means a geological structure identified as an oil or gas field by the Order in Council concerned, and • “United Kingdom sector of the continental shelf” means the area designated under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964.
- Crown employment
means employment under or for the purposes of a government department or any officer or body exercising on behalf of the Crown functions conferred by statutory provision.
- employee
means an individual who has entered into or works under (or, where the employment has ceased, worked under) a contract of employment.
- enforcement officer
means— (a)...
- foreign sector of the continental shelf
means an area outside the territorial waters of any state, within which rights with respect to the sea-bed and subsoil and their natural resources are exercisable by a state other than the United Kingdom, • “petroleum field” means a geological structure identified as an oil or gas field by the Order in Council concerned, and • “United Kingdom sector of the continental shelf” means the area designated under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964.
- government department
includes a Northern Ireland department, except in section 52(a) above;
- home worker
means an individual who contracts with a person, for the purposes of that person’s business, for the execution of work to be done in a place not under the control or management of that person.
- independent school
has the same meaning as in section 463 of the Education Act 1996 (in England and Wales), section 135 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 (in Scotland) and Article 2 of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (in Northern Ireland).
- industrial tribunal
means a tribunal established under Article 3 of the Industrial Tribunals (Northern Ireland) Order 1996;
- notice
means notice in writing;
- offshore employment
means employment for the purposes of activities—
- partner
includes a person purporting to act as a partner.
- petroleum field
means a geological structure identified as an oil or gas field by the Order in Council concerned, and • “United Kingdom sector of the continental shelf” means the area designated under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964.
- prescribe
means prescribe by regulations;
- prison
includes any other institution to which prison rules apply;
- prison rules
means— (a) in relation to England and Wales, rules made under section 47 of the Prison Act 1952;
- prisoner
means a person detained in, or on temporary release from, a prison;
- qualified lawyer
means—
- recommendations
means the recommendations required to be contained in a report under section 5(3) or 6(2) above, as the case may be;
- records
means records which the worker’s employer is required to keep and, at the time of receipt of the production notice, preserve in accordance with section 9 above;
- regulations
means regulations made by the Secretary of State, except in the case of regulations under section 47(2) or (4) above made by the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland.
- relevant member of the House of Commons staff
means any person—
- relevant member of the House of Lords staff
means any person who is employed under a worker’s contract with the Corporate Officer of the House of Lords.
- relevant records
means such parts of, or such extracts from, any records as are relevant to establishing whether or not the worker has, for any pay reference period to which the records relate, been remunerated by the employer at a rate which is at least equal to the national minimum wage.
- relevant remuneration
means remuneration which falls to be brought into account for the purposes of regulations under section 2 above.
- report
means the report which the Low Pay Commission are required to make under section 5(3) or 6(2) above, as the case may be, on the matters referred to them as mentioned in subsection (1) above.
- statutory body
means a body established by or under an enactment (including an enactment comprised in Northern Ireland legislation) and includes the Children’s Panel;
- subsistence
means such subsistence as is reasonable in the circumstances of the employment in question, and does not include accommodation;
- the agricultural wages legislation
means—
- the appropriate authority
means—
- the enforcement provisions of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998
means the following provisions of that Act— a sections 9 to 11 (records);
- the national minimum wage
means the single hourly rate for the time being in force by virtue of regulations under section 1(3) of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998, but this definition is subject to paragraph (2A);”
- the national minimum wage provisions of this Article
means paragraphs (1A), (1B) and (13) to (15).”
- the national minimum wage provisions of this section
means subsections (2B), (2C) and (8) to (10) of this section.”
- the relevant legislation
means— (a)...
- the relevant Minister
means the Minister of the Crown with the function of appointing officers under section 13(1)(a) of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998.”
- United Kingdom sector of the continental shelf
means the area designated under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964.
- voluntary organisation
means a body of persons, or the trustees of a trust, which is established only for charitable purposes (whether or not those purposes are charitable within the meaning of any rule of law), benevolent purposes or philanthropic purposes, but which is not a charity.
- worker
(except in the phrases “agency worker” and “home worker”) means an individual who has entered into or works under (or, where the employment has ceased, worked under)— and any reference to a worker’s contract shall be construed accordingly.