{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-minimum-wage-act-1998/section-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-minimum-wage-act-1998/section-48.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/39",
  "legislation_title": "National Minimum Wage Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-minimum-wage-act-1998",
  "path": "section/48",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Application of Act to superior employers.",
  "text": "Where—\n(a) the immediate employer of a worker is himself in the employment of some other person, and\n(b) the worker is employed on the premises of that other person,\nthat other person shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to be the employer of the worker jointly with the immediate employer.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 48 modified by 1948 c.47, s. 3A(1)-(4) (as inserted (1.4.1999) by 1998 c. 39, ss. 47(1)(a), 56(2), Sch. 2 Pt. I, para. 3 (with s. 36); S.I. 1999/685, art. 2, Sch.))S. 48 modified by 1949 c. 30, s. 3A(1)-(3) (as inserted (1.4.1999) by 1998 c. 39, ss. 47(1)(b), 56(2), Sch. 2 Pt. II, para. 13 (with s. 36); S.I. 1999/685, art. 2, Sch.))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 48 extended (with modifications) by S.I. 1997/2151 (N.I. 22), art. 8A (as inserted (1.4.1999) by 1998 c. 39, ss. 47(1)(c), 56(2), Sch. 2 Pt. III, para. 26 (with s. 36); S.I. 1999/685, art. 2, Sch.))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 48 applied (with modifications) (E.W.) (30.7.2014) by Agricultural Sector (Wales) Act 2014 (anaw 6), ss. 5(1)(2)(m)(3)-(7), 19 (with s. 14(1))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/39/section/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:20.745698+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."
}