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Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Act 2012 (No. 13)Introductory TextActs Referred toPart 1 Preliminary and General (ss. 1-5)1. Short title and commencement.2. Interpretation.3. Application of Act.4. Publicly funded work placement schemes, etc.5. Expenses.Part 2 Agency Workers (ss. 6-15)6. Basic working and employment conditions of agency workers.7. Anti-avoidance.8. Certain collective agreements.9. Restriction of certain enactments.10. Statement of terms of employment of agency workers.11. Access to employment by hirer.12. Voidance of certain provisions.13. Offence to charge fees to certain individuals.14. Obligations of hirers to agency workers.15. Duty of hirer to provide information to employment agency.Part 3 Amendment of Enactments (ss. 16-20)16. Amendment of Employment Agency Act 1971.17. Amendment of section 10 of Protection of Employment Act 1977.18. Amendment of section 3 of Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees Act 1996.19. Amendment of Employees (Provision of Information and Consultation) Act 2006.20. Amendment of certain statutory instruments.Part 4 Protection of Employees and Redress (ss. 21-25)21. Protection for persons who report breaches of Act.22. False statements.23. Prohibition on penalisation by employer.24. Prohibition on penalisation by hirer.25. Complaints in respect of certain contraventions of Act.Schedule 1 Directive 2008/104/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on temporary agency workSchedule 2 Redress for certain contraventions of Act
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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 15 December 2011 - onwards

3. Application of Act.

This Act applies to agency workers temporarily assigned by an employment agency to work for, and under the direction and supervision of, a hirer.

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