http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/621/regulation/9The National Minimum Wage Regulations 2015enTERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENTStatute Law Database2026-04-23Expert Participation2026-04-01 These Regulations remake the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/584) and consolidate the amendments made to those Regulations. The National Minimum Wage Regulations 2015 PART 4CHAPTER 1 9 1 The following payments and amounts, except as provided in regulation 10, are to be treated as payments by the employer to the worker as respects the pay reference period— a payments paid by the employer to the worker in the pay reference period (other than payments required to be included in an earlier pay reference period in accordance with sub-paragraphs (b) or (c)); b payments paid by the employer to the worker in the following pay reference period as respects the pay reference period (whether as respects work or not); c payments paid by the employer to the worker later than the following pay reference period where the requirements in paragraph (2) are met; d where a worker’s contract terminates then as respects the worker’s final pay reference period, payments paid by the employer to the worker in the period of a month beginning with the day after that on which the contract was terminated; e amounts determined in accordance with regulation 16 (amount for provision of living accommodation) where— i the employer has provided the worker with living accommodation during the pay reference period, and ii as respects that provision of living accommodation, the employer is not entitled to make a deduction from the worker’s wages or to receive a payment from the worker. 2 The requirements are that as respects the work in the pay reference period— a the worker is under an obligation to complete a record of the amount of work done, b the worker is not entitled to payment until the completed record has been given to the employer, c the worker has failed to give the record to the employer before the fourth working day before the end of that following pay reference period, and d the payment is paid in either the pay reference period in which the record is given to the employer or the pay reference period after that. Reg. 9 in force at 6.4.2015, see reg. 1