Scope

Scope

The licensing scheme covers labour providers operating in the agriculture,horticulture,shellfish gathering and associated processing and packaging sectors and prevents anyone from acting as a gangmaster in these areas without a licence. It also makes it an offence for a person to enter into an arrangement with an unlicensed gangmaster.

Tha Act applies to gangmasters who provide people to undertake work which the Act covers anywhere in the United Kingdom, on any portion of the shore or bed of the sea, or of any estuary or tidal river adjacent to the UK, whether above or below the low water mark, or in UK coastal waters.

The Act includes businesses registered as employment agencies or employment businesses.  It also applies to people using others to gather shellfish.  The Act also provides for the making of regulations for the exclusion of certain activities from the licensing arrangements