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Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003

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Change history as published

Reg. 9 omitted (8.5.2016) by virtue of The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/510), regs. 1(2), 2(2)

Reg. 11 omitted (8.5.2016) by virtue of The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/510), regs. 1(2), 2(3)

Reg. 17 omitted (8.5.2016) by virtue of The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/510), regs. 1(2), 2(5)

Sch. 4 para. 1 omitted (8.5.2016) by virtue of The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/510), regs. 1(2), 2(9)

Sch. 4 para. 5 omitted (8.5.2016) by virtue of The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/510), regs. 1(2), 2(9)

Sch. 4 para. 9 omitted (8.5.2016) by virtue of The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/510), regs. 1(2), 2(9)

Sch. 5 para. 1 omitted (8.5.2016) by virtue of The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/510), regs. 1(2), 2(10)

Sch. 5 para. 2 omitted (8.5.2016) by virtue of The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/510), regs. 1(2), 2(10)

Sch. 5 para. 6 omitted (8.5.2016) by virtue of The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/510), regs. 1(2), 2(10)

Sch. 5 para. 7 omitted (8.5.2016) by virtue of The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/510), regs. 1(2), 2(10)

Sch. 5 para. 8 omitted (8.5.2016) by virtue of The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/510), regs. 1(2), 2(10)

Sch. 5 para. 10 omitted (8.5.2016) by virtue of The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/510), regs. 1(2), 2(10)

Sch. 6 omitted (8.5.2016) by virtue of The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/510), regs. 1(2), 2(11) · repeated 2×

Pending effects amendments not yet applied to this text

reg. 7 omitted by The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2022 reg. 2(a) · Effective date unknown · reg. 7

Sch. 1 para. 4(1) words omitted by The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2022 reg. 2(b) · Effective date unknown · Sch. 1 para. 4

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12 parts · 80 provisions. Open a provision for its text and, where available, its one-line summary.

PART I GENERAL AND INTERPRETATION · 4 provisions
1 Citation and commencement
2 Interpretation
3 The meaning of “connected”
4 Transitional and Saving Provisions and Revocation
PART II GENERAL OBLIGATIONS · 8 provisions
5 Restriction on use of additional services
6 Restriction on detrimental action relating to work-seekers working elsewhere
7 Restriction on providing work-seekers in industrial disputes
8 Restriction on paying work-seekers' remuneration
9 Restriction on agencies and employment businesses purporting to act on a different basis
10 Restriction on charges to hirers
11 Entering into a contract on behalf of a client
12 Prohibition on employment businesses withholding payment to work-seekers on certain grounds
PART III REQUIREMENTS TO BE SATISFIED BEFORE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED · 6 provisions
13 Notification of charges and the terms of offers
13A Key information document: Employment businesses
14 Requirement to obtain agreement to terms with work-seekers: Employment Businesses
15 Content of terms with work-seekers: Employment businesses
16 Requirement to obtain agreement to terms with work-seekers and content of terms with work-seekers: Agencies
17 Requirement for employment businesses to obtain agreement to terms with hirers
PART IV REQUIREMENTS TO BE SATISFIED IN RELATION TO THE INTRODUCTION OR SUPPLY OF A WORK-SEEKER TO A HIRER · 5 provisions
18 Information to be obtained from a hirer
19 Confirmation to be obtained about a work-seeker
20 Steps to be taken for the protection of the work-seeker and the hirer
21 Provision of information to work-seekers and hirers
22 Additional requirements where professional qualifications or authorisation are required or where work-seekers are to work with vulnerable persons
PART V SPECIAL SITUATIONS · 2 provisions
23 Situations where more than one agency or employment business is involved
24 Situations where work-seekers are provided with travel or required to live away from home
PART VI CLIENT ACCOUNTS AND CHARGES TO WORK-SEEKERS · 2 provisions
25 Client accounts
26 Circumstances in which fees may be charged to work-seekers
PART VII MISCELLANEOUS · 9 provisions
27 Advertisements
27A Advertising in ... EEA states
28 Confidentiality
29 Records
30 Civil liability
31 Effect of prohibited or unenforceable terms and recoverability of monies
32 Application of the Regulations to work-seekers which are incorporated
33 Electronic and other communications
34 Review
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