{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gangmasters-licensing-act-2004/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gangmasters-licensing-act-2004/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/11",
  "legislation_title": "Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gangmasters-licensing-act-2004",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Territorial scope of application",
  "text": "(1) The work to which this Act applies is work—\n(a) in the United Kingdom,\n(b) on any portion of the shore or bed of the sea, or of an estuary or tidal river, adjacent to the United Kingdom, whether above or below (or partly above and partly below) the low water mark, or\n(c) in UK coastal waters.\n(2) In subsection (1)(c) “UK coastal waters” means waters adjacent to the United Kingdom to a distance of six miles measured from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured.\nIn this subsection “miles” means international nautical miles of 1,852 metres.\n(3) The provisions of this Act apply where a person acts as a gangmaster, whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, in relation to work to which this Act applies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 5 in force at 1.12.2004 by S.I. 2004/2857, art. 2(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/11/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:18.496826+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."
}