{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wages-councils-act-1979/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wages-councils-act-1979/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/12",
  "legislation_title": "Wages Councils Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wages-councils-act-1979",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Supplemental provisions",
  "text": "(1) On any reference under this Part of this Act to the Service, the Service shall make all such investigations as appear to it to be necessary and shall publish in the prescribed manner a notice stating the questions which it is its duty to consider by virtue of the reference and further stating that it will consider representations with respect thereto made to it in writing within such period as may be specified in the notice, not being less than forty days from the date of the publication thereof; and it shall consider any representations made to it within that period and then make such further inquiries as it considers necessary including, so far as it considers necessary, the hearing of oral evidence.\n(2) Any power conferred by this Part of this Act on the Secretary of State to make an order giving effect to a recommendation of the Service shall be construed as including power to make an order giving effect to that recommendation with such modifications as he thinks fit, being modifications which, in his opinion, do not effect important alterations in the character of the recommendation.\n(3) Where the Secretary of State receives any report from the Service he may, if he thinks fit, refer the report back to the Service and the Service shall thereupon reconsider it having regard to any observations made by him and shall make a further report, and the like proceedings shall be had on any such further report as in the case of an original report.\n(4) The Secretary of State shall publish every report made to him by the Service under this Part of this Act:\nProvided that where he refers a report back to the Service, he shall not be bound to publish it until he publishes the further report of the Service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/12/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:18:27.390175+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."
}