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Enforced by: Fair Work Agency, Employment Tribunal
Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Regulated

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Employer1 Director or Officer1

Plus 2 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

Other Acts binding the same actors

If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.

Employer — also bound by 682 other Acts

The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) Regulations 2003 241 duties

Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 120 duties

TULRCA 1992 72 duties

Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 54 duties

Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (current NI employment law) 53 duties

Director or Officer — also bound by 429 other Acts

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 162 duties

Companies Act 2006 126 duties

Insolvency Act 1986 77 duties

The Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 68 duties

Building Societies Act 1986 32 duties

What it requires

Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

s.002 How tips etc must be dealt with Regulated

Allocate and pay qualifying tips fairly to workersEmployer

s.005 Agency workers Regulated

Allocate tips to agency workers without unauthorised deductionsDirector or Officer

s.007 Enforcement: dealing with tips etc Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Tribunal must rule on tips complaints and can order compensation up to £5,000Tribunal / Court

s.008 Enforcement: information Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Tribunal must declare and remedy employer failures on tip policies and recordsTribunal / Court

11 other provisions — procedural and definitional

s.001 Tips, gratuities and service charges

s.003 Independent troncs

s.004 When tips etc must be dealt with

s.006 Information

s.009 Code of practice about tips etc

s.010 General

s.011 Wages

s.012 Other amendments to employment legislation

s.013 Extent

s.014 Commencement

s.015 Short title

Help complying

Guvnor’s practical routes through this instrument.

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4 more guides that reference this instrument

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Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.