PART 3Agricultural minimum wage

Accommodation offset allowance

16.—(1) Where in any week an employer provides an agricultural worker with a house for the whole of that week, the employer may, subject to paragraph (2), deduct the sum of £1.50 from the agricultural worker’s minimum wage payable under article 13 of this Order for that week.

(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), where in any week an employer provides an agricultural worker with other accommodation, the employer may deduct the sum of £4.82 from the agricultural worker’s minimum wage payable under article 13 of this Order for each day in the week that the other accommodation is provided to the worker.

(3) The deduction in paragraph (2) may only be made when the agricultural worker has worked for a minimum of 15 hours in that week.

(4) Any time during that week when the agricultural worker is on annual leave or bereavement leave must count towards those 15 hours.