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(1)The Board shall have power, . . . F1, by order made in accordance with the provisions of the Third Schedule to this Act—
(a)to define the benefits or advantages (not being benefits or advantages prohibited by law) which for the purposes of a minimum rate of wages fixed under this Act may be reckoned as payment of wages in lieu of payment in cash;
(b)to determine the value at which, for the purposes aforesaid, such benefits or advantages may be so reckoned;
(c)to limit or prohibit the reckoning for the purposes aforesaid of benefits or advantages as payment of wages in lieu of payment in cash.
(2)Subject to the provisions of any order under the preceding subsection, the court shall, in any proceedings under this Act, reckon as a payment of wages such amount as in the opinion of the court represents the value of any benefits or advantages (not being benefits or advantages prohibited by law) received by a worker under the terms of his employment.
(3)If [F2the Secretary of State is] satisfied, on an application in that behalf made by a worker employed in agriculture . . . F1 or by his employer, that the value determined by an order or direction under this section for a house or part of a house occupied as a separate dwelling by the worker does not correspond with the true value thereof, [F2the Secretary of State] may, . . . F1, direct that the value of the house or part of a house is to be reckoned for the purposes of a minimum rate of wages fixed under this Act at such different amount as may be specified in the direction.
Textual Amendments
F1Words repealed by Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1972 (c. 62), Sch. 6
F2Words substituted by Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1972 (c. 62), Sch. 5
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Power to amend s. 7 conferred (1.4.1999) by 1998 c. 39, s. 47(4)(b) (with s. 36); S.I. 1999/685, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3)
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