The Employment Agencies Act 1973 (Exemption) Regulations 1976

• Citation: S.I. 1976/710
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

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

Section 2 Interpretation

(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.

Section 3 Exemptions

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.