{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-wages-act-1948/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-wages-act-1948/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/11-12/47",
  "legislation_title": "Agricultural Wages Act 1948",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-wages-act-1948",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Enforcement of holidays orders.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, if an employer fails—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) to allow to any such worker the holidays fixed by the order; or\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nhe shall be liable on summary conviction in respect of each offence to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In any proceedings against a person under this section it shall lie with him to prove that he . . . has allowed the holidays fixed by the order, . . ..\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 3, 4 repealed (25.6.2013 for the purpose of the repeal of s. 3) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), s. 103(3), Sch. 20 para. 2; S.I. 2013/1455, art. 2(c), Sch. 1 (with art. 4(1)(2)) (as amended (7.9.2013) by S.I. 2013/2271, art. 2 and (14.9.2014) by S.I. 2014/2481, art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 4 repealed (1.10.2013 for E.) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), s. 103(3), Sch. 20 para. 2; S.I. 2013/1455, art. 3(b), Sch. 2 (with art. 4(1)(2)) (as amended (7.9.2013) by S.I. 2013/2271, art. 2 and (14.9.2014) by S.I. 2014/2481, art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 4(1)(a)(b)(d) repealed (1.4.1999) by 1998 c. 39, ss. 47, 53, Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 4(1)(a)(i), Sch. 3 (with s. 36); S.I. 1999/685, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word and s. 4(1)(d) inserted by Employment Protection Act 1975 (c. 71), Sch. 9 Pt. II para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(1) repealed (1.4.1999) by 1998 c. 39, ss. 47, 53, Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 4(1)(a)(ii), Sch. 3 (with s. 36); S.I. 1999/685, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 4(2) repealed (1.4.1999) by 1998 c. 39, ss. 47, 53, Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 4(1)(b), Sch. 3 (with s. 36); S.I. 1999/685, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(3) repealed (1.4.1999) by 1998 c. 39, ss. 47, 53, Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 4(1)(c), Sch. 3 (with s. 36); S.I. 1999/685, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 4(4) repealed (1.4.1999) by 1998 c. 39, ss. 47, 53, Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 4(1)(d), Sch. 3 (with s. 36).; S.I. 1999/685, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Sidenote to s. 4 becomes “Enforcement of holidays orders” (1.4.1999) by 1998 c. 39, s. 47, Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 4(2) (with s. 36); S.I. 1999/685, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 4(1) amended by Employment Protection Act 1975 (c. 71, SIF 43:1), s. 97, Sch. 9 Pt. II para. 5 and Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38 (increase of fines) and 46 (substitution of references to levels on the standard scale)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/47/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:22:52.605938+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}