The Working Time Regulations 1998

  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART I GENERAL

    1. 1. Citation, commencement and extent

    2. 2. Interpretation

  3. PART II RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS CONCERNING WORKING TIME

    1. 3. General

    2. 4. Maximum weekly working time

    3. 5. Agreement to exclude the maximum

    4. 5A.Maximum working time for young workers

    5. 6. Length of night work

    6. 6A.Night work by young workers

    7. 7. Health assessment and transfer of night workers to day work

    8. 8. Pattern of work

    9. 9. Records

    10. 10. Daily rest

    11. 11. Weekly rest period

    12. 12. Rest breaks

    13. 13. Entitlement to annual leave

    14. 14. Compensation related to entitlement to leave

    15. 15. Dates on which leave is taken

    16. 15A.Leave during the first year of employment

    17. 16. Payment in respect of periods of leave

    18. 17. Entitlements under other provisions

  4. PART III EXCEPTIONS

    1. 18. Excluded sectors

    2. 19. Domestic service

    3. 20. Unmeasured working time

    4. 21. Other special cases

    5. 22. Shift workers

    6. 23. Collective and workforce agreements

    7. 24. Compensatory rest

    8. 24A.Mobile workers

    9. 25. Workers in the armed forces

    10. 25B.Workers employed in offshore work

    11. 26. Young workers employed on ships

    12. 27. Young workers:force majeure

    13. 27A.Other exceptions relating to young workers

  5. PART IV MISCELLANEOUS

    1. 28. Enforcement

    2. 29. Offences

    3. 29A.Offences due to fault of other person

    4. 29B.Offences by bodies corporate

    5. 29C.Restriction on institution of proceedings in England and Wales

    6. 29D.Prosecutions by inspectors

    7. 29E.Power of court to order cause of offence to be remedied

    8. 30. Remedies

    9. 31. Right not to suffer detriment

    10. 32. Unfair dismissal

    11. 33. Conciliation

    12. 34. Appeals

    13. 35. Restrictions on contracting out

    14. 35A.(1) The Secretary of State shall, after consulting persons appearing...

  6. PART V SPECIAL CLASSES OF PERSON

    1. 36. Agency workers not otherwise “workers"

    2. 37. Crown employment

    3. 38. Armed forces

    4. 39. House of Lords staff

    5. 40. House of Commons staff

    6. 41. Police service

    7. 42. Non-employed trainees

    8. 43. Agricultural workers

  7. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      WORKFORCE AGREEMENTS

      1. 1.An agreement is a workforce agreement for the purposes of...

      2. 2.For the purposes of this Schedule— “a particular group" is...

      3. 3.The requirements concerning elections referred to in paragraph 2 are...

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      WORKERS EMPLOYED IN AGRICULTURE

      1. 1.Except where, in the case of a worker partly employed...

      2. 2.Where, in the case referred to in paragraph 1 above,...

      3. 3.In this Schedule, “an agricultural wages order" means an order...

    3. SCHEDULE 3

      ENFORCEMENT

      1. 1.Appointment of inspectors

      2. 2.Powers of inspectors

      3. 3.Improvement notices

      4. 4.Prohibition notices

      5. 5.Provisions supplementary to paragraphs 3 and 4

      6. 6.Appeal against improvement or prohibition notice

      7. 7.Power of enforcement authority to indemnify inspectors

      8. 8.Restrictions on disclosure of information

  9. Explanatory Note