This Section sets out the effect of regulations made by the appropriate authority to ratify agreements under Section 43, ensuring that changes to a social care worker’s remuneration or other terms or conditions set out in an agreement take effect within the social care worker’s contract, unless such changes if given effect would alter an existing term or condition of the contract to the social care worker’s detriment or would prevent the social care worker’s contract from including terms and conditions that are more favourable than those set out in the agreement.
	Subsection (1) refers to the appropriate authority’s power to ratify agreements through regulations under the circumstances outlined in Section 43.
	Subsection (2) sets out that if the agreement relates to a social care worker’s remuneration, that remuneration is to be determined and paid in accordance with the agreement.
	Subsection (3) sets out that if the agreement relates to any other term or condition of a social care worker’s employment, then it has effect as a term of the worker’s contract.
	Subsection (4) sets out that a term of a social care worker’s contract has no effect to the extent it makes provision that is prohibited by or otherwise inconsistent with the agreement.
	Subsection (5) provides that regulations made by the Secretary of State under Section 43 cannot alter an existing term or condition of a social care worker’s employment to their detriment or prevent them from being employed on a term or condition that is more favourable than a corresponding term that would otherwise be imposed in their contract of employment by those regulations and disapplies subsections (2) to (4) for these purposes.
Part 3: Pay and Conditions in Particular Sectors Giving effect to agreements of Negotiating Body Section 47: Effect of regulations ratifying agreement