http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/3319/contents/madeRecruitmentEmployment terms and conditionsEmployment regulationsEmployment relationsLegislationThe Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament2011-10-12EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES, ETC. These Regulations revoke the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 1976, the Employment Agencies Act 1973 (Charging Fees to Workers) Regulations 1976 and the Employment Agencies Act 1973 (Charging Fees to Au Pairs) Regulations 1981. The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS PART I General and Interpretation 1 Citation and commencement 2 Interpretation 3 The meaning of “connected” 4 Transitional and Saving Provisions and Revocation PART II General Obligations 5 Restriction on requiring work-seekers to use additional services 6 Restriction on detrimental action relating to work-seekers working elsewhere 7 Restriction on providing work-seekers in industrial disputes 8 Restriction on paying work-seekers' remuneration 9 Restriction on agencies and employment businesses purporting to act on a different basis 10 Restriction on charges to hirers 11 Entering into a contract on behalf of a client 12 Prohibition on employment businesses withholding payment to work-seekers on certain grounds PART III Requirements to be satisfied before services are provided 13 Notification of charges and the terms of offers 14 Requirement to obtain agreement to terms with work-seekers 15 Content of terms with work-seekers: Employment businesses 16 Content of terms with work-seekers: Agencies 17 Requirement to obtain agreement to terms with hirers PART IV Requirements to be satisfied in relation to the introduction or supplyof a work-seeker to a hirer 18 Information to be obtained from a hirer 19 Confirmation to be obtained about a work-seeker 20 Steps to be taken for the protection of the work-seeker and the hirer 21 Provision of information to work-seekers and hirers 22 Additional requirements where professional qualifications are required or where work-seekers are to work with vulnerable persons PART V Special Situations 23 Situations where more than one agency or employment business is involved 24 Situations where work-seekers are provided with travel or required to live away from home PART VI Client Accounts and Charges to Work-seekers 25 Client accounts 26 Circumstances in which fees may be charged to work-seekers PART VII Miscellaneous 27 Advertisements 28 Confidentiality 29 Records 30 Civil liability 31 Effect of prohibited or unenforceable terms and recoverability of monies 32 Application of the Regulations to work-seekers which are incorporated 33 Electronic or other communications SCHEDULES 1. Transitional and Saving Provisions 2. Client accounts 3. Occupations in respect of which employment agencies may charge fees to work-seekers 4. Particulars to be included in an agency’s or employment business’s records relating to work-seekers 5. Particulars to be included in an agency’s or employment business’s records relating to hirers 6. Particulars to be included in an agency’s or employment business’s records relating to other agencies or employment businesses This Statutory Instrument has been printed to correct errors in the S.I. of the same number and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument. 2003 No. 3319 EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES, <Abbreviation Expansion="et cetera" xml:lang="la">ETC.</Abbreviation> The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 Made 17th December 2003 Coming into force except regulations 26(7) and 32 6th April 2004 regulations 26(7) and 32 6th July 2004

Whereas a draft of the following Regulations was laid before Parliament in accordance with section 12(5) of the Employment Agencies Act 1973 and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament;

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by sections 5(1), 6(1) and 12(3) of the Employment Agencies Act 1973 and having consulted such bodies as appear to her to be representative of the interests concerned, hereby makes the following Regulations: 1973 c. 35; section 12(5) as originally enacted was substituted by the Employment Relations Act 1999 (c. 26), Schedule 7, paragraphs 1 and 6. Section 5(1) was amended by the Employment Relations Act 1999 (c. 26), Schedule 7, paragraphs 1, 2(1) and (2). Section 6(1) as originally enacted was prospectively substituted by the Employment Relations Act 1999 (c. 26), Schedule 7, paragraphs 1 and 3.