Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Employment Agencies Act 1973 (Exemption) (No. 2) Regulations 1984 and shall come into operation on 7th August 1984.

(2) In these Regulations:—

“local law society” has the meaning assigned to it by section 87(1) of the Solicitors Act 1974;

“the first 1979 Regulations” means the Employment Agencies Act 1973 (Exemption) Regulations 1979;

“the second 1979 Regulations” means the Employment Agencies Act 1973 (Exemption) (No. 2) Regulations 1979;

“the 1982 Regulations” means the Employment Agencies Act 1973 (Exemption) Regulations 1982;

“the 1984 Regulations” means the Employment Agencies Act 1973 (Exemption) Regulations 1984.

Revocation

2.  The first 1979 Regulations, the 1982 Regulations and the 1984 Regulations are hereby revoked.

Amendment of the second 1979 Regulations

3.  There shall be omitted from the second 1979 Regulations—

(a)sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph (1) of Regulation 2;

(b)sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (2) of Regulation 2; and

(c)the Schedule to those Regulations.

Exemption

4.  The Employment Agencies Act 1973 shall not apply to any business carried on, or any services provided by,—

(a)the organisations listed in Part I of the Schedule to these Regulations;

(b)an organisation, or a company established by such an organisation, being an organisation or company listed in Part II of the said Schedule.

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SCHEDULEEXEMPT ORGANISATIONS

PART I

• The Association of Dispensing Opticians Ltd

• The Association of Meat Inspectors (Great Britain) Limited

• The Chartered Institute of Patent Agents

• The Faculty of Actuaries in Scotland

• The Incorporated Brewers' Guild

• The Institute of Actuaries

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

• The Institute of Chartered Accounts of Scotland

• The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators

• The Institute of Legal Executives

• The Institute of Marketing

• The Institute of the Motor Industry

• The Institute of Personnel Management

• The Institute of Qualified Private Secretaries Limited

• The Law Society of Scotland

• Local Law Societies in England and Wales

• The Pensions Management Institute

• The Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

• The Royal Society of Chemistry

• The Society of Architectural and Associated Technicians

• The Society of Business Economists

• The Society of Chiropodists.

PART II

• The Law Society and Law Society Services Limited.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations replace three previous sets of Regulations and part of a fourth set. Their effect is to prescribe bodies with the result that under the Employment Agencies Act 1973 any businesses carried on and any services provided by those bodies are exempt from the provisions of the Act; the Regulations which they replace, in whole or in part, limited the exemptions to specific activities of the bodies named therein. There are some changes to the list of bodies now exempted.