Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2003
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Employment contribution and insured persons — agency workers. |
19.—The Principal Act is amended— | |
(a) in section 9, by inserting the following after subsection (3): | ||
“(4) For the purposes of this Part, with regard to employment specified in paragraph 13 (inserted by section 19 of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2003) of Part I of the First Schedule, the person who is liable to pay the wages or salary of the individual concerned in respect of the work or service concerned is deemed to be the individual's employer.”, | ||
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(b) in the First Schedule, by inserting the following after paragraph 12 (inserted by section 12 of the Social Welfare Act 1996 ): | ||
“13. Employment whereby an individual agrees with another person, who is carrying on the business of an employment agency within the meaning of the Employment Agency Act 1971 and is acting in the course of that business, to do or perform personally any work or service for a third person (whether or not the third person is a party to the contract and whether or not the third person pays the wages or salary of the individual in respect of the work or service).”. |