Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Interpretation

1.  In this Schedule unless the context otherwise requires –

• the expressions “accounts”, “books”, “ledgers” and “records” shall include loose-leaf books and such cards or other permanent documents or records as are necessary for the operation of any system of book-keeping, electronic, mechanical or otherwise and where an electronic system is operated, the information recorded on it must be capable of being reproduced in legible form;

• “accounting reference date” has the same meaning as it is given in Article 232 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(1);

• “client” means any person for whom an agency acts and on whose account it holds, receives or pays out client’s money or a hirer from whom an agency receives a hirer’s deposit;

• “client account” has the same meaning as in regulation 25;

• “client’s money” means –

  (a)

  money held or received by an agency on behalf of a work-seeker (including money held or received by way of advance against payment to a work-seeker for work to be done by that work-seeker, where the terms of the contract between the work-seeker and the hirer stipulate that the advance is not repayable to the hirer in any circumstances); and

  (b)

  hirer’s deposits;

  but shall not include money to which the only person entitled is the agency itself;

• “credit institution” has the same meaning as in regulation 25; and

• “hirer’s deposit” has the same meaning as in regulation 25.

(1)

S.I. 1986/1032 (N.I. 6); Article 232 was substituted by S.I. 1990/593 (N.I.); Article 3(a) and 5 and amended by S.R. 1997 No. 314, Regulation 2