Employment Agencies Act 1973

Conduct of employment agencies and employment businesses

5General regulations

(1)The Secretary of State may make regulations to secure the proper conduct of employment agencies and employment businesses and to protect the interests of persons availing themselves of the services of such agencies and businesses, and such regulations may in particular make provision—

(a)requiring persons carrying on such agencies and businesses to keep records;

(b)prescribing the form of such records and the entries to be made in them ;

(c)prescribing qualifications appropriate for persons carrying on such agencies and businesses;

(d)regulating advertising by persons carrying on such agencies and businesses;

(e)safeguarding clients' money deposited with or otherwise received by persons carrying on such agencies and businesses;

(f)regulating the provision of services by persons carrying on such agencies and businesses in respect of persons who seek employment outside the United Kingdom or of persons normally resident outside the United Kingdom who seek employment in the United Kingdom;

(g)regulating the provision of services by persons carrying on such agencies and businesses in respect of persons who are under the age of eighteen years or are undergoing full-time education :

Provided that regulations under this section shall not make provision for regulating or restricting the charging of fees to employers by persons carrying on such agencies and businesses.

(2)Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any regulation made under this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £400.

6Restriction on charging persons seeking employment, etc.

(1)Except in such cases or classes of case as the Secretary of State may prescribe, a person carrying on an employment agency or an employment business shall not demand or directly or indirectly receive from any person any fee for finding him employment or for seeking to find him employment.

(2)Any person who contravenes this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £400.

7Display of licences, etc.

(1)The holder of a licence under this Act in respect of any employment agency or employment business shall keep displayed on the premises to which the licence relates in such a position that it can be readily seen by persons resorting to those premises—

(a)the licence; and

(b)a copy of any regulations under this Act which apply to the employment agency or employment business.

(2)Any person who fails to comply with this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £400.