Section 42: Explanatory statement : betting workers.

Employment Rights Act 1996 · 1996 c. 18View on legislation.gov.uk

Part IV: Sunday working for shop and betting workers

Where a person becomes a ... betting worker to whom section 40 applies, his employer shall, before the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which that person becomes such a worker, give him a written statement in the prescribed form.

If—

an employer fails to comply with subsection (1) in relation to any ... betting worker, and
the ... betting worker, on giving the employer an opting-out notice, becomes ... an opted-out betting worker,

section 41(3) has effect in relation to the ... betting worker with the substitution for "three months" of "one month".

An employer shall not be regarded as failing to comply with subsection (1) in any case where, before the end of the period referred to in that subsection, the ... betting worker has given him an opting-out notice.

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Subject to subsection (6), the prescribed form in the case of a betting worker is as follows—

The Secretary of State may by order amend the prescribed form set out in subsection (5).

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