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There are currently no known outstanding effects for the The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, Section 2.
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2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“the Act” means the Employment Agencies Act 1973;
“advertisement” includes every form of advertising by whatever means;
“agency” means an employment agency as defined in section 13(1) and (2) of the Act and includes a person carrying on an agency, and in the case of a person who carries on both an agency and an employment business means such a person in his capacity in carrying on the agency;
“business day” means a day other than a Saturday or a Sunday, Christmas Day or Good Friday, or a day which is a bank holiday under or by virtue of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in that part of Great Britain;
“company” includes any body corporate (whether incorporated in Great Britain or elsewhere) and references to directors and other officers of a company and to voting power at any general meeting of a company have effect in the case of a company incorporated outside Great Britain with any necessary modifications;
“employment business” means an employment business as defined in section 13(1) and (3) of the Act and includes a person carrying on an employment business, and in the case of a person who carries on both an employment business and an agency means such a person in his capacity in carrying on the employment business;
“hirer” means a person (including an employment business) to whom an agency or employment business introduces or supplies or holds itself out as being capable of introducing or supplying a work-seeker;
“publication” means any publication whether in paper or electronic form other than a programme service within the meaning of the Broadcasting Act 1990 ;
“work-finding services” means services (whether by the provision of information or otherwise) provided—
(a)
by an agency to a person for the purpose of finding that person employment or seeking to find that person employment;
(b)
by an employment business to an employee of the employment business for the purpose of finding or seeking to find another person, with a view to the employee acting for and under the control of that other person;
(c)
by an employment business to a person (the “first person”) for the purpose of finding or seeking to find another person (the “second person”), with a view to the first person becoming employed by the employment business and acting for and under the control of the second person;
“work-seeker” means a person to whom an agency or employment business provides or holds itself out as being capable of providing work-finding services.
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