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Part 6 Benefits
Scope of provision
19.-(1) Only the benefits specified in this Part may be reckoned as payment of wages in lieu of payment in cash for the purpose of establishing whether a worker has been paid the minimum rate of wages applicable to him in accordance with this Order.
(2) Only the value specified in this Part in relation to such a benefit may be reckoned for the purpose mentioned in paragraph (1) above.
(3) Where the value of a benefit is expressed as a weekly amount, it may be applied to the wages of the worker for the week in respect of which the benefit was enjoyed or, where the wages for that week are insufficient to meet all or any part of that value, may be applied in whole or in part in any subsequent week.
Benefits
20.-(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, the provision without charge, by an employer to a worker of a house, flatted dwellinghouse, room or communal accommodation shall be a benefit for the purposes of this Part and the value of that provision shall be £1 per week.
(2) Where a local authority is satisfied that accommodation of a kind specified in paragraph (1) above is unfit for human habitation and a notice has been served in terms of sections 108(1), or an order made under section 114 or 115, of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987( a) in respect of that accommodation, the benefit of its provision shall have no value for the purposes of this Part from the date on which such a notice is served or order made until the date on which the house has been rendered fit for human habitation to the satisfaction of the local authority.
( a) 1987 c.26.
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