The Posted Workers (Enforcement of Employment Rights) Regulations 2016

Made: 25th April 2016

Laid before Parliament: 27th April 2016

Coming into force: 18th June 2016

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PART 1 — General

Citation, commencement and extent

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Interpretation

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Review

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PART 2 — Posted Workers in the Construction Sector

Scope of application of this Part

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Right not to suffer unauthorised deductions

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Complaints to employment tribunals

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Extension of time limits to facilitate conciliation before institution of proceedings

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Determination of complaints

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Restrictions on contracting out

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Amendment to the Employment Tribunals Act 1996

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PART 3 — Cross-border enforcement and disclosure of information

Cross-border enforcement of financial administrative penalties and fines

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Disclosure of information held by Revenue and Customs

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Signed

Nick Boles — Minister of State for Skills — 2016-04-25

Shailesh Vara — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Courts and Legal Aid — 2016-04-25

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: Article 2 of, and the Schedule to, the European Communities (Designation) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/738); article 2 of the European Communities (Designation) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/221).

[^f00002]: 1972 c.68; section 2(2) was amended by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51), section 27(1) and the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7), section 3(3).

[^f00003]: 1996 c.17; by virtue of section 1 of the Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) Act 1998 (c.8) industrial tribunals were renamed employment tribunals and references to “industrial tribunal” or “industrial tribunals” in any enactment were substituted with “employment tribunal” and “employment tribunals”. Section 18(8) was amended by the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c.15), Schedule 8, paragraphs 35 and 38, and the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c.24), section 9; section 18(9) was inserted by the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013, section 9.

[^f00004]: OJ No L 18, 21.1.1997, p. 1.

[^f00005]: OJ No L 159, 28.05.2014, p. 11.

[^f00006]: 1998 c.39; section 17 was amended by section 8 of the Employment Act 2008 (c.24).

[^f00007]: S.I. 2015/621.

[^f00008]: 1996 c.18.

[^f00009]: Section 18A was inserted by the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act, section 7(1).

[^f00010]: Sections 18A and 18B were inserted by the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act, section 7(1). Section 18C was inserted by the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act, section 7(2), Schedule 1, paragraphs 2 and 6.

[^f00011]: 2007 c.29.

[^f00012]: 1992 c.52.

[^f00013]: 1984 c.28.

[^f00014]: 2005 c.11.

[^f00015]: 1998 c.29.

Editorial notes