http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2011/350/section/2THE AGENCY WORKERS REGULATIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2011Temporary employmentEmployment terms and conditionsEmployment regulationsEmployment rightsHealth and safety at workenEMPLOYMENTStatute Law Database2025-02-06Expert Participation2023-09-29 These Regulations, which are made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 (c.68), and Articles 17(1), (2) and (5), 55(2) of, and paragraphs 6, 7 and 14(1) of Schedule 3 to the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978, implement in Northern Ireland Council Directive 2008/104/EC of 19th November 2008 on temporary agency work (OJ L 327, 5.12.2008, p.9). This Directive establishes a general framework for protection of temporary agency workers. The Regulations provide certain rights for temporary agency workers including in relation to basic working and employment conditions. PART 121The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.2In these Regulations—“the 1996 Order” means the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996;“assignment” means a period of time during which an agency worker is supplied by one or more temporary work agencies to a hirer to work temporarily for and under the supervision and direction of the hirer;“contract of employment” means a contract of service or of apprenticeship, whether express or implied, and (if it is express) whether oral or in writing;“employee” means an individual who has entered into or works under or, where the employment has ceased, worked under a contract of employment;“employer”, in relation to an employee or worker, means the person by whom the employee or worker is (or where the employment has ceased, was) employed;“employment”—in relation to an employee, means employment under a contract of employment, andin relation to a worker, means employment under that worker’s contract,and “employed” shall be construed accordingly;“hirer” means a person engaged in economic activity, public or private, whether or not operating for profit, to whom individuals are supplied, to work temporarily for and under the supervision and direction of that person; and“worker” means an individual who is not an agency worker but who has entered into or works under (or where the employment has ceased, worked under)—a contract of employment, orany other contract, whether express or implied and (if it is express) whether oral or in writing, whereby the individual undertakes to do or perform personally any work or services for another party to the contract whose status is not by virtue of the contract that of a client or customer of any profession or business undertaking carried on by the individual,and any reference to a worker’s contract shall be construed accordingly. 1954 c.33 (N.I.) S.I. 1996/1919 (N.I.16) Reg. 2 in operation at 5.12.2011, see reg.1