Agricultural Wages Act 1948

Long titleAn Act to consolidate the Agricultural Wages (Regulation) Acts, 1924 to 1947, and so much of the Holidays with Pay Act, 1938, as enables a wage regulating authority to make provision for holidays and holiday remuneration for workers employed in agriculture in England and Wales.

Citation11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 47

Territorial extentEngland and Wales^[b]

Royal assent13 July 1948

Agricultural Wages Act 1948^[a]

Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to consolidate the Agricultural Wages (Regulation) Acts, 1924 to 1947, and so much of the Holidays with Pay Act, 1938, as enables a wage regulating authority to make provision for holidays and holiday remuneration for workers employed in agriculture in England and Wales.
Citation	11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 47
Territorial extent	England and Wales[b]
Dates
Royal assent	13 July 1948
Commencement	13 July 1948[c]
Other legislation
Amends	See § Repealed enactments
Repeals/revokes	See § Repealed enactments
Amended by	Statute Law Revision Act 1950 Transfer of Functions (Ministry of Food) Order 1955 London Government Order 1965 Agricultural Wages Committees (Transitional Provisions) Order 1974 Employment Protection Act 1975 National Minimum Wage Act 1998 Agricultural Wages Act 1948 (Amendment) Regulations 1999 Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 Employment Relations Act 2004 Employment Act 2008 Local Government (Structural Changes) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Other Provision) Order 2009 Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013
Relates to	Agricultural Wages (Scotland) Act 1949
Status: Partially repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended
Text of the Agricultural Wages Act 1948 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.

The Agricultural Wages Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 47) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated enactments related to agricultural wages in England and Wales. The Agricultural Wages Board regulated the amount that farm workers were paid under the act, in order to guarantee a fair minimum wage scale, depending, for example, on type of work, or years of experience. After the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 was introduced, agricultural wages tended to be slightly higher than those at the minimum. However, the Conservative-Liberal-Democrat coalition government decided to allow farm worker wages to be reduced by repealing most of the act in the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013.