National Insurance Act 1913

25 Power to treat all employees of an employer as being remunerated at normal rate

(1) Where it appears to the Insurance Commissioners that the persons employed by any employer or group of employers in any class or classes of work are in general in receipt of a rate of remuneration which, although liable to fluctuation, is normally within any of the limits hereinafter mentioned, the Commissioners may, by a special order, declare that all the persons employed by that employer or group of employers in that class or those classes of work shall, for the purposes of the principal Act, but subject to any exceptions contained in the order, be treated as if they were constantly in receipt of the normal rate of remuneration, notwithstanding that those persons or any of them may in any week in fact receive a higher or lower rate of remuneration.

(2) The limits referred to in this section are—

(a) A rate not exceeding one shilling and sixpence a working day;

(b) A rate exceeding one shilling and sixpence but not exceeding two shillings a working day ;

(c) A rate exceeding two shillings but not exceeding two shillings and sixpence a working day.