{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-minimum-wage-regulations-2015/regulation-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-minimum-wage-regulations-2015/regulation-52.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/621",
  "legislation_title": "The National Minimum Wage Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-minimum-wage-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/52",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Schemes for trial periods of work",
  "text": "(1) A person who is participating in a trial period of work with an employer for a period of six weeks or less, as part of a scheme which meets the requirements in paragraph (2), does not qualify for the national minimum wage for the work done for that employer in that period.\n(2) The requirements are that the scheme—\n(a) is designed to provide training, work experience or temporary work, or to assist in the seeking or obtaining of work, and\n(b) is, in whole or in part, made or funded by—\n(i) the Secretary of State under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 , section 17B of the Jobseekers Act 1995 or section 100 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009;\n(ii) the Scottish Ministers or the Welsh Ministers under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973;\n(iii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(iv) Scottish Enterprise or Highlands and Islands Enterprise under section 2 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990;\n(v) the Department for Employment and Learning under section 1 of the Employment and Training Act (Northern Ireland) 1950; or\n(vi) the European Social Fund established under Article 162 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 52(2)(b)(i): comma substituted (26.5.2015) by The Deregulation Act 2015 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/971), art. 1(2)(a), Sch. 3 para. 33(4)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 52(2)(b)(i) inserted (26.5.2015) by The Deregulation Act 2015 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/971), art. 1(2)(a), Sch. 3 para. 33(4)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 52(2)(b)(iii) omitted (26.5.2015) by virtue of The Deregulation Act 2015 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/971), art. 1(2)(a), Sch. 3 para. 33(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 52 in force at 6.4.2015, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/621/regulation/52",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:43:27.413008+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."
}