Holidays with Pay Act 1938

Holidays with Pay Act 1938[a]
Act of Parliament
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long titleAn Act to enable wage regulating authorities to make provision for holidays and holiday remuneration for workers whose wages they regulate, and to enable the Minister of Labour to assist voluntary schemes for securing holidays with pay for workers in any industry.
Citation1 & 2 Geo. 6. c. 70
Territorial extent 
[b]
Dates
Royal assent29 July 1938
Commencement29 July 1938[c]
Repealed22 July 2004
Other legislation
Amended by
Repealed byStatute Law (Repeals) Act 2004
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The Holidays with Pay Act 1938 (1 & 2 Geo. 6. c. 70) was legislation of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which provided for paid holidays for working class employees,[1] and was the result of a twenty-year campaign.[2]

It led to the popularity of holiday camps such as those run by Butlins[3]

The provisions of the act have largely been replaced by the European Working Time Directive enacted by statutory instrument 1998/1833 - Working Time Regulations 1998.

Subsequent developments

Sections 1, 2, 3 and 5 of the act so far as they relate to workers employed in agriculture were repealed by section 20 of, and the fifth schedule to, the Agricultural Wages Act 1948, which came into force on 13 July 1948.[4]

Sections 1, 2, 3 and 5 of the act were repealed by section 1(1) of, and part V of the schedule to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1975, which came into force on 13 March 1975.[5]

The whole act was repealed by section 1(1) of, and part 8 of schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004, which came into force on 22 July 2004.[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ Section 6(1).
  2. ↑ Section 6(2).
  3. ↑ The Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793.

References

  1. ↑ "Holidays with Pay Act 1938". Retrieved 31 March 2016.
  2. ↑ Dawson, Sandra (2006). "TCBH Postgraduate Essay Prize Winner for 2006 "Working-Class Consumers and the Campaign for Holidays with Pay"" (PDF). TBCH. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
  3. ↑ {{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/familyholidays/6020690/Butlins-joins-the-21st-century.html|title=Butlins joins the 21st century|last=Jardine |first=Cassandra |date= 13 August 2009|work=Daily Telegraph|accessdate=5 February 2010}}
  4. ↑ "Agricultural Wages Act 1948", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, Geo6/11-12 c. 47
  5. ↑ "Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1975", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 1975 c. 10
  6. ↑ "Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 2004 c. 14


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