Statutory Instruments

2015 No. 621

Terms And Conditions Of Employment

The National Minimum Wage Regulations 2015

Made

9th March 2015

Coming into force

6th April 2015

A draft of these Regulations was laid before Parliament in accordance with section 51(5) of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998(1) and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

These Regulations are made by the Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(3) and (4), 2, 3, 9 and 51(1)(b) of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998(2). Section 9 of that Act is extended by section 5 of the Agricultural Sector (Wales) Act 2014(3), section 3A(1) of the Agricultural Wages (Scotland) Act 1949(4) and Article 8A(1) of the Agricultural Wages (Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 1977(5).

(1)

1998 c.39; sections 51(6) and 51(7) were amended by the Employment Act 2008 (c.23), sections 9(3) and 20 and the Schedule, Part 2.

(2)

1998 c.39; section 3 was amended by SI 1999/583, regulation 2.

(4)

1949 c.30. Section 3A(1) was inserted by the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 (c.39), Schedule 2, paragraph 13.

(5)

S.I. 1977/2151 (N.I. 22). Article 8A(1) was inserted by the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 (c.39), Schedule 2, paragraph 26.