Agricultural Wages (Scotland) Act 1949

7 Reckoning of benefits and advantages as payment of wages.

(1) The Board shall have power, for each district for which an agricultural wages committee is established under this Act, by order made in accordance with the provisions of the Third Schedule to this Act—

(a) to define the benefits or advantages (not being benefits or advantages prohibited by law) which for the purposes of a minimum rate of wages fixed under this Act may be reckoned as payment of wages in lieu of payment in cash ;

(b) to determine the value at which, for the purposes aforesaid, such benefits or advantages may be so reckoned ;

(c) to limit or prohibit the reckoning for the purposes aforesaid of benefits or advantages as payment of wages in lieu of payment in cash.

(2) Subject to the provisions of any order under the preceding subsection, the court shall, in any proceedings under this Act, reckon as a payment of wages such amount as in the opinion of the court represents the value of any benefits or advantages (not being benefits or advantages prohibited by law) received by a worker under the terms of his employment.

(3) If an agricultural wages committee are satisfied, on an application in that behalf made by a worker employed in agriculture in their district or by his employer, that the value determined by an order or direction under this section for a house or part of a house occupied as a separate dwelling by the worker does not correspond with the true value thereof, the committee may, subject to any limits imposed by the Board by order made in accordance with the provisions of the Third Schedule to this Act, direct that the value of the house or part of a house is to be reckoned for the purposes of a minimum rate of wages fixed under this Act at such different amount as may be specified in the direction.