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Agricultural Wages Act 1948 (c. 47)

Agricultural Wages Act 1948 1948 CHAPTER 47 11 and 12 Geo 6 An Act to consolidate the Agricultural Wages (Regulation) Acts, 1924 to 1947, and so much of the Holidays with Pay Act, 1938, as enables a wage regulating authority to make provision for holidays and holiday remuneration for workers employed in agriculture in England and Wales. [13th July 1948]

Legislation

Table of Content

1. The Agricultural Wages Board for England and Wales. E+W

2. Wages and Holidays E+W

3. F7 Enforcement. E+W

4. [ F15 Enforcement of holidays orders. ] E+W

5. Permits to incapacitated persons. E+W

6. Provisions as to learners. E+W

7. Reckoning of benefits and advantages as payment of wages. E+W

8. Power of agricultural wages committee to award additional wages for piece work in certain cases. E+W

9. Provisions as to applications, &c., to agricultural wages committees. E+W

10. Criminal liability of agents and special defence open to employer. E+W

11. Supplementary E+W

12. [ F38 Powers of officers ] E+W

13. Annual reports. E+W

14. Expenses. E+W

15. F52 Information obtained by national minimum wage officers. E+W

16. Power to give effect to, and modify, this Act as respects holidays and holiday remuneration. E+W

17. F61 Relationship between this Act and the National Minimum Wage Act 1998. E+W

18. London. E+W

19. Isles of Scilly. E+W

20. Repeal and savings. E+W

21. Counties in Wales E+W

1. The Agricultural Wages Board for England and Wales. E+W

2. Wages and Holidays E+W

3. F7 Enforcement. E+W

4. [ F15 Enforcement of holidays orders. ] E+W

5. Permits to incapacitated persons. E+W

6. Provisions as to learners. E+W

7. Reckoning of benefits and advantages as payment of wages. E+W

8. Power of agricultural wages committee to award additional wages for piece work in certain cases. E+W

9. Provisions as to applications, &c., to agricultural wages committees. E+W

10. Criminal liability of agents and special defence open to employer. E+W

11. Supplementary E+W

12. [ F38 Powers of officers ] E+W

13. Annual reports. E+W

14. Expenses. E+W

15. F52 Information obtained by national minimum wage officers. E+W

16. Power to give effect to, and modify, this Act as respects holidays and holiday remuneration. E+W

17. F61 Relationship between this Act and the National Minimum Wage Act 1998. E+W

18. London. E+W

19. Isles of Scilly. E+W

20. Repeal and savings. E+W

21. Counties in Wales E+W

Section 1

1. The Agricultural Wages Board for England and Wales. E+W

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Textual Amendments F1 S. 1 repealed (25.6.2013) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24) , s. 103(3) , Sch. 20 para. 2 ; S.I. 2013/1455 , art. 2(c) , Sch. 1 (with art. 4(2) )

Section 2

2. Wages and Holidays E+W

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, there shall be established, by order of the Minister made by statutory instrument, an agricultural wages committee for each county in [ F2 England and ] Wales: Provided that— (a) [ F3 as respects each combination of counties specified in the Second Schedule to this Act, there shall, in the first instance, be established as aforesaid a committee for the combination instead of a committee for each county; and ] (b) if, in the case of each of the respective committees for two or more counties, there is passed by the members of the committee representing employers and the members thereof representing workers in agriculture a resolution in favour of combining the counties for the purposes of this Act, there may, if the Minister thinks it expedient, be established as aforesaid a committee for the combination of counties instead of separate committees for the several counties [ F4 and (c) there may, if the Minister thinks it expedient, be established as aforesaid a committee for the combination of all the counties in Wales instead of separate committees for counties or combinations of counties in Wales. ] (2) Where an agricultural wages committee has been established for a combination of counties, the Minister at any time thereafter may, and on the representation of the committee by resolution of the members thereof representing employers and the members thereof representing workers in agriculture shall, by statutory instrument dissolve the committee. (3) A combination of counties for which an agricultural wages committee is established under this section shall, until the committee is dissolved, be deemed for the purposes of this section and the subsequent provisions of this Act to be one county. F5 (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (5) A resolution for the purposes of paragraph (b) of the proviso to subsection (1) of this section or of subsection (2) thereof, as the case may be, that is passed at a meeting of an agricultural wages committee unanimously by such of the members thereof representing employers and such of the members thereof representing workers in agriculture as are present and voting shall be deemed, for the purposes of the said paragraph (b) or the said subsection (2), as the case may be, to be a resolution of those members. (6) The provisions of the Third Schedule to this Act shall have effect with respect to the constitution and proceedings of agricultural wages committees. Textual Amendments F2 Words in s. 2(1) repealed (16.12.2013 for specified purposes) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24) , s. 103(3) , Sch. 20 para. 2 ; S.I. 2013/2979 , art. 2(d) , Sch. Pt. 2 F3 S. 2(1)(a) repealed (16.12.2013 for E.) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24) , s. 103(3) , Sch. 20 para. 2 ; S.I. 2013/2979 , art. 2(c) , Sch. Pt. 1 F4 S. 2(1)(c) and the word preceding it inserted (1.12.1998) by 1998 c. 38 , s. 149 (with ss. 139(2) , 143(2) ); S.I. 1998/2789 , art. 2 . F5 S. 2(4) repealed (25.6.2013) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24) , s. 103(3) , Sch. 20 para. 2 ; S.I. 2013/1455 , art. 2(c) , Sch. 1 (with art. 4(2) )