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These Regulations revoke the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 1976, the Employment Agencies Act 1973 (Charging Fees to Workers) Regulations 1976 and the Employment Agencies Act 1973 (Charging Fees to Au Pairs) Regulations 1981.
www.legislation.gov.uk
This next section was drafted because a student working as a temp was killed in the hold of a ship in shoreham when a minidigger was dropped on him - there was confusion as to whose responsibility his H&S was so now it is clear - as an agency YOU have to check all H&S is in place before the temp can start.
20.—(1) Neither an agency nor an employment business may introduce or supply a work-seeker to a hirer unless the agency or employment business has—
(b)without prejudice to any of its duties under any enactment or rule of law in relation to health and safety at work, made all such enquiries, as are reasonably practicable, to ensure that it would not be detrimental to the interests of the work-seeker or the hirer for the work-seeker to work for the hirer in the position which the hirer seeks to fill.