NMWM12220 - Records, evidence, powers and offences: powers: obtaining documents or information

Relevant legislation

The legislation that applies to this page is as follows:

  • Employment Rights Act 2025, sections 96 to 101

General

NMWM12210 explains the powers of a NMW Officer for the performance of their duties. Some of those powers require a person, by notice, to provide specified information or documents. In this context it means any person whom an officer acting for the purposes of the Act has reasonable grounds to believe is able to provide information which is necessary for any enforcement purpose. This can include:

  1. the employer of a worker;
  2. a person who for the purposes of agency workers (who are not otherwise workers -section 34 of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998) is the agent or the principle;
  3. a person who supplies work to an individual who qualifies for the National Minimum Wage;
  4. a worker, servant or agent of a person described in a. to c. above;
  5. a person who qualifies for the National Minimum Wage.