{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gangmasters-licensing-conditions-rules-2006/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/660",
  "legislation_title": "The Gangmasters (Licensing Conditions) Rules 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gangmasters-licensing-conditions-rules-2006",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application for a gangmaster’s licence",
  "text": "(1) A gangmaster’s licence will only be granted to a business.\n(2) The principal authority is responsible for completing the information submitted in the application on behalf of the business.\n(3) He and any person who is put forward to be named or otherwise specified in the licence must be a fit and proper person.\n(4) He must disclose details of—\n(a) any conviction which is not spent under the provisions of section 1 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974;\n(b) any judgment against him by any court; and\n(c) any investigation undertaken or penalty imposed by a local authority or government department.\n(5) He must disclose details of any previous trading in the sector that is regulated by the 2004 Act (either personally or as a director or shareholder of a company) in the previous five years including full details of any business concerned.\n(6) He, and in the case of a company, all the directors, and in a case of a partnership, all the partners, must be 16 years old or older.\n(7) He must inform the Authority of—\n(a) the persons to be named and the positions to be otherwise specified on the licence;\n(b) in the case of a company, the names of the directors; and\n(c) in the case of a partnership, the names of the partners.\n(8) He must inform the Authority of the turnover of his business in the sector that is regulated by the 2004 Act for the previous financial year or in the case of a new business, the expected turnover.\n(9) He must inform the Authority if the business has been subject to an audit under the Code of Practice of the Temporary Labour Working Group or any other audit approved by the Authority and agree that details of that audit are disclosed by the auditor to the Authority.\n(10) He must make available any records the Authority may request in support of the application to the Authority and persons acting on behalf of the Authority.\n(11) Any director or partner of the business, and any person proposed to be named in the licence must provide to the Authority on demand any details specified in paragraph (4) or (5).\n(12) The Authority can impose such conditions as it considers appropriate when it grants the licence and can also impose additional conditions after the grant of a licence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1974.c.53."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "www.lpcode.co.uk"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/660/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:34:41.013702+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."
}