1AOutworkers

1A Outworkers

1A Outworkers

(1) If—

(a) a person (the principal) contracts with another person to perform any work as an outworker, and

(b) the outworker neither employs any worker, nor subcontracts with any person, to perform any of the work for the profit of the outworker,

the outworker is, for the purposes of this Act, taken to be a worker employed by the principal.

(2) In this clause—

outworker means a person to whom articles or materials are given out to be made up, cleaned, washed, altered, ornamented, finished or repaired, or adapted for sale—

(a) in the person’s own home, or

(b) on other premises not under the control or management of the person who gave out the articles or materials.