Part I The Agricultural Wages Act 1948
National Minimum Wage Act 1998 (1998 c 39) | Legislation

SCHEDULE 2 Amendments Relating to Remuneration etc of Agricultural Workers

Section 47

Part I The Agricultural Wages Act 1948

1

The Agricultural Wages Act 1948 shall be amended in accordance with this Part of this Schedule.

Section 3

2

(1)ÌýÌýÌýÌý Section 3 (power of Agricultural Wages Board to fix minimum rates of wages, holiday pay, etc) shall be amended as follows.

(2)ÌýÌýÌýÌý After subsection (2A) there shall be inserted—

“(2µþ)ÌýÌýÌýÌý No minimum rate fixed under this section which is an hourly rate shall be less than the national minimum wage.

(2C)ÌýÌýÌýÌý No minimum rate fixed under this section which is a rate other than an hourly rate shall be such as to yield a less amount of wages for each hour worked than the hourly amount of the national minimum wage.â€.

(3)ÌýÌýÌýÌý After subsection (7) there shall be added—

“(8)ÌýÌýÌýÌý If the Board make, or purport to make, an order fixing a minimum rate under this section—

(a)ÌýÌýÌýÌý which is an hourly rate but which is lower than the national minimum wage in force when that minimum rate comes into effect, or

(b)

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