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The Working Time Regulations 1998

law · United Kingdom · uksi/1998/1833

388 provisions

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1 Citation, commencement and extent
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2 Interpretation
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3 General
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4 Maximum weekly working time
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5 Agreement to exclude the maximum
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5A Maximum working time for young workers
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6 Length of night work
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6A Night work by young workers
7 Health assessment and transfer of night workers to day work
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8 Pattern of work
9 Records
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10 Daily rest
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11 Weekly rest period
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12 Rest breaks
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13 Entitlement to annual leave
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13A Entitlement to additional annual leave
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14 Compensation related to entitlement to leave
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15 Dates on which leave is taken
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15A Leave during the first year of employment
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15B Irregular hours workers and part-year workers: entitlement to annual leave
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15C Irregular hours workers and part-year workers: annual leave accrued while on sick or statutory leave
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15D Irregular hours workers and part-year workers: right to carry forward annual leave
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15E Irregular hours workers and part-year workers: compensation related to entitlement to leave
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15F Meaning of irregular hours workers and part-year workers
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16 Payment in respect of periods of leave
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16A Rolled-up holiday pay for irregular hours workers and part-year workers
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16B Records relating to annual leave entitlement
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17 Entitlements under other provisions
18 Excluded sectors
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19 Domestic service
20 Unmeasured working time
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21 Other special cases
22 Shift workers
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23 Collective and workforce agreements
24 Compensatory rest
24A Mobile workers
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25 Workers in the armed forces
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25A Doctors in training
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25B Workers employed in offshore work
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26 Young workers employed on ships
26A Entitlement to additional annual leave under a relevant agreement
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27 Young workers:force majeure
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27A Other exceptions relating to young workers
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28 Enforcement
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29 Offences
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29A Offences due to fault of other person
29B Offences by bodies corporate
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29C Restriction on institution of proceedings in England and Wales
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29D Prosecutions by inspectors
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29E Power of court to order cause of offence to be remedied
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30 Remedies
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30A Extension of time limits because of mediation in certain cross-border disputes
30B Extension of time limit to facilitate conciliation before institution of proceedings
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31 Right not to suffer detriment
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32 Unfair dismissal
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33 Conciliation
34 Appeals
35 Restrictions on contracting out
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36 Agency workers not otherwise “workers"
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37 Crown employment
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38 Armed forces
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39 House of Lords staff
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40 House of Commons staff
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41 Police service
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42 Non-employed trainees
43 Workers employed in agriculture in Wales or Scotland
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1 Appointment of inspectors
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2 Powers of inspectors
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3 Improvement notices
4 Prohibition notices
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5 Provisions supplementary to paragraphs 3 and 4
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6 Appeal against improvement or prohibition notice
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7 Power of enforcement authority to indemnify inspectors
8 Restrictions on disclosure of information
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