The National Minimum Wage Regulations 2015

1. Introductory Text

2. PART 1

   1. 1. Citation and commencement

   2. 2. Revocations

   3. 3. General interpretative provisions

3. PART 2 Rates of the National Minimum Wage and Pay Reference Period

   1. 4. The national living wage

   2. 4A. Workers who qualify for the national minimum wage at a different rate

   3. 4B. Determining the applicable national minimum wage rate

   4. 5. Determining whether the apprenticeship rate applies

   5. 6. Pay reference period

4. PART 3

   1. 7. Calculation to determine whether the national minimum wage has been paid

5. PART 4

   1. 8. Remuneration in a pay reference period

   2. CHAPTER 1

      1. 9. Payments as respects the pay reference period

      2. 10. Payments and benefits in kind which do not form part of a worker’s remuneration

   3. CHAPTER 2

      1. 11. Determining the reductions which reduce the worker’s remuneration

      2. 12. Deductions or payments for the employer’s own use and benefit

      3. 13. Deductions or payments as respects a worker’s expenditure

      4. 14. Deductions or payments as respects living accommodation

      5. 15. Deductions or payments as respects living accommodation adjusted for absences

   4. CHAPTER 3

      1. 16. Amount for provision of living accommodation

6. PART 5

   1. CHAPTER 1

      1. 17. Hours of work for determining whether the national minimum wage has been paid

      2. 18. Hours where payment due on submission of a record

      3. 19. Hours spent training

      4. 20. Hours spent travelling

   2. CHAPTER 2

      1. 21. The meaning of salaried hours work

      2. 22. Determining hours of salaried hours work in a pay reference period

      3. 23. Absences from work to be reduced from the salaried hours work in a pay reference period

      4. 24. The meaning of the calculation year

      5. 25. Determining the basic hours in the calculation year

      6. 26. Determining whether the worker works more than the basic hours in the calculation year

      7. 27. Hours treated as worked for the purpose of determining whether the worker works more than the basic hours in the calculation year and, where the worker does, the number of salaried hours work in that year

      8. 28. Determining hours of salaried hours work if the worker works more than the basic hours in the calculation year

      9. 29. Hours of salaried hours work if the employment terminates before the end of the calculation year (or contract is varied so it is no longer a contract for salaried hours work)

   3. CHAPTER 3

      1. 30. The meaning of time work

      2. 31. Determining hours of time work in a pay reference period

      3. 32. Time work where worker is available at or near a place of work

      4. 33. Training treated as hours of time work

      5. 34. Travelling treated as hours of time work

      6. 35. Hours not treated as time work

   4. CHAPTER 4

      1. 36. The meaning of output work

      2. 37. Determining hours of output work in a pay reference period

      3. 38. Training treated as hours of output work

      4. 39. Travelling treated as hours of output work

      5. 40. Industrial action not treated as output work

      6. 41. Requirements for rated output work

      7. 42. The meaning of average hourly output rate (rated output work)

      8. 43. Determining hours of rated output work in a pay reference period

   5. CHAPTER 5

      1. 44. The meaning of unmeasured work

      2. 45. Determining hours of unmeasured work in a pay reference period

      3. 46. Training treated as hours of unmeasured work

      4. 47. Travelling treated as hours of unmeasured work

      5. 48. Industrial action not to be unmeasured work

      6. 49. The daily average agreement

      7. 50. Determining the hours treated as worked under a daily average agreement

7. PART 6

   1. 51. Schemes for training, work experience, temporary work or for seeking or obtaining work

   2. 52. Schemes for trial periods of work

   3. 53. Work experience as part of a higher or further education course

   4. 54. Traineeships in England

   5. 55. Work schemes for provision of accommodation to the homeless

   6. 56. European Union programmes

   7. 57. Work does not include work relating to family household

   8. 58. Work does not include work relating to family business

8. PART 7

   1. 59. Records to be kept by an employer

9. Signature

10. 1. SCHEDULE

       Revocations

11. Explanatory Note