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Wages Act 1986

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 82 Cited in Amendments 313 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1986 c. 48
it is required or authorised to be made by virtue of any statutory provision or any relevant provision of the worker’s contract; orthe worker has previously signified in writing his agreement or consent to the making of it.(2) An employer shall not receive any payment from any worker employed by him unless the payment satisfies one of the conditions set out in paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) .in one or more written terms of the contract of which the employer has given the worker a copy on any occasion prior to the employer making the deduction in question, or (where subsection (1) (a) applies for the purposes of subsection (2) ) prior to his receiving the payment in question, orin one or more terms of the contract (whether express or implied and, if express, whether oral or in writing) whose existence and effect, or (as the case may be) combined effect, in relation to the worker the employer has notified to the worker in writing on any such occasion.any relevant provision of a worker’s contract having effect by virtue of any variation of the contract, orany agreement or consent signified by a worker as mentioned in subsection (1) (b) ,any overpayment of wages, orany overpayment in respect of expenses incurred by the worker in carrying out his employment,to any deduction from a worker’s wages made by his employer, or any payment received from a worker by his employer, in consequence of any disciplinary proceedings if those proceedings were held by virtue of any statutory provision;to any deduction from a worker’s wages made by his employer in pursuance of any requirement imposed on the employer by any statutory provision to deduct and pay over to a public authority amounts determined by that authority as being due to it from the worker, if the deduction is made in accordance with the relevant determination of that authority;in accordance with any relevant provision of his contract to whose inclusion in the contract the worker has signified his agreement or consent in writing, orotherwise with the prior agreement or consent of the worker signified in writing,to any deduction from a worker’s wages made by his employer, or any payment received from a worker by his employer, where the worker has taken part in a strike or other industrial action and the deduction is made, or the payment has been required, by the employer on

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