Employment Rights Act 1996

233 Betting workers

(1) In this Act “betting worker” means an employee who, under his contract of employment, is or may be required to do betting work.

(2) In this Act “betting work” means—

(a) work at a track in England or Wales for a bookmaker on a day on which the bookmaker acts as such at the track, being work which consists of or includes dealing with betting transactions, and

(b) work in a licensed betting office in England or Wales on a day on which the office is open for use for the effecting of betting transactions.

(3) In subsection (2) “betting transactions” includes the collection or payment of winnings on a bet and any transaction in which one or more of the parties is acting as a bookmaker.

(4) In this section “bookmaker” means any person who—

(a) whether on his own account or as servant or agent to any other person, carries on (whether occasionally or regularly) the business of receiving or negotiating bets or conducting pool betting operations, or

(b) by way of business in any manner holds himself out, or permits himself to be held out, as a person who receives or negotiates bets or conducts such operations.

(5) Expressions used in this section and in the [1963 c. 2.] Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963 have the same meaning in this section as in that Act.

(6) In this Act—

• “notice period”, in relation to an opted-out betting worker, has the meaning given by section 41(3),

• “opted-out”, in relation to a betting worker, shall be construed in accordance with section 41(1) and (2),

• “opting-in notice”, in relation to a betting worker, has the meaning given by section 36(6),

• “opting-out notice”, in relation to a betting worker, has the meaning given by section 40(2), and

• “protected”, in relation to a betting worker, shall be construed in accordance with section 36(1) to (5).