The Employment Agencies Act 1973 (Exemption) Regulations 1976

Statutory Instruments

1976 No. 710

EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES, ETC.

The Employment Agencies Act 1973 (Exemption) Regulations 1976

Made

5th May 1976

Laid before Parliament

20th May 1976

Coming into Operation

1st July 1976

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 13(7)(i) and 12(1) of the Employment Agencies Act 1973 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after consultation as required by section 12(2) of the said Act with bodies appearing to him to be representative of the interests concerned, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Employment Agencies Act 1973 (Exemption) Regulations 1976 and shall come into operation on 1st July 1976.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“Income Tax Acts” has the meaning assigned by section 526(1)(b) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970; and

“industrial training board” has the meaning assigned by section 1(2) of the Industrial Training Act 1964.

(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

Exemptions

3.  The Employment Agencies Act 1973 shall not apply to any business carried on, or any services provided by—

(a) a college for the training of teachers, or other institution of further education, in respect of which a grant is paid under section 100 of the Education Act 1944;

(b) an institution of further education which is assisted by a local education authority in pursuance of a scheme of further education made under section 42 of the Education Act 1944;

(c) in England and Wales, a body which is—

(i) registered under section 4 of the Charities Act 1960; or

(ii) certified by the Charity Commissioners to be a charity within the meaning of that Act which by virtue of subsection (4) of the said section 4 is not required to be so registered, or to be an ecclesiastical corporation within the meaning of section 45(2)(a) of that Act;

(d) in Scotland, a charity within the meaning of the Income Tax Acts;

(e) a body comprising representatives of one or more industrial training boards, together with representatives of any one or more of the following, that is to say, an organisation of employers, an organisation of workers, and a body comprising representatives of two or more such organisations;

(f) the British Council.

Signed by order of the Secretary of State.

Harold Walker

Minister of State

Department of Employment

5th May 1976

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations exempt from the licensing and other provisions of the Employment Agencies Act 1973—

(a) certain colleges for the training of teachers and other institutions of further education in England and Wales;

(b) charities;

(c) bodies comprising representatives of industrial training boards and representatives of organisations of employers, organisations of workers or of any joint body comprising such organisations; and

(d) the British Council.