{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-agriculture-act-1976/schedule-3/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-agriculture-act-1976/schedule-3/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1976/80",
  "legislation_title": "Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-agriculture-act-1976",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The provisions of this paragraph shall have effect for determining what is whole-time work in agriculture for the purposes of this Part of this Schedule.\n(2) A person works whole-time in agriculture for any week in which—\n(a) he is employed to work in agriculture, and\n(b) the number of hours for which he works in agriculture, or in activities incidental to agriculture, for the person or persons by whom he is so employed is not less than the standard number of hours.\n(3) Where a person is employed in agriculture as a whole-time worker, any week in which by agreement with his employer or, where he has two or more employers, by agreement with the employer or employers concerned he works less than the standard number of hours shall count as a week of whole-time work in agriculture.\n(4) If in any week a person who is employed in agriculture as a whole-time worker is, for the whole or part of the week—\n(a) absent from work in agriculture by reason of his taking a holiday to which he is entitled, or\n(b) absent from work in agriculture with the consent of his employer or, where he has two or more employers, with the consent of the employer or employers concerned, or\n(c) incapable of whole-time work in agriculture in consequence of an injury or disease (whether a qualifying injury or disease or not),\nthat week shall count as a week of whole-time work in agriculture.\n(5) If in any week a person (whether employed in agriculture as a whole-time worker or not) is, for the whole or part of the week, incapable of whole-time work in agriculture in consequence of a qualifying injury or disease, that week shall count as a week of whole-time work in agriculture.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/80/schedule/3/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:34:31.027789+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."
}