The National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (Amendment) Regulations 2001
These Regulations, which amend the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 and come into force on 1st May 2001, ensure that all trainees on the Government training schemes to which the Regulations relate are excluded from entitlement to the national minimum wage during the first 12 months of their engagement under a scheme or if they are under 19. They do this by providing for the exclusion to apply not only, as under the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (Amendment) Regulations 2000, where the trainees are workers within the meaning given by section 54(3) of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 but also where they are to be regarded as workers by virtue of the additions to that definition contained in regulation 2(1) of the 1999 Regulations. The additions relate to agency workers and home workers who are outside the definition of “worker” in section 54(3).