Section 224 — Employment Relations Act 2000: Demand notice

224 Demand notice (1) A Labour Inspector (or a person authorised by a Labour Inspector to do so) may serve on an employer a demand notice, in the prescribed form, if— (a) an employee makes a complaint to the Labour Inspector, or the Labour Inspector believes on reasonable grounds, that an employee has not received wages or holiday pay or other money payable by the employer to the employee under the Minimum Wage Act 1983 or the Holidays Act 2003 ; and (b) the Labour Inspector has given the employer not less than 7 days to comment on the complaint or the grounds for the Labour Inspector's belief; and (c) the Labour Inspector, after considering any comments made by the employer under paragraph (b) , is satisfied that the employee is entitled to the wages or holiday pay or other money; and (d) the Labour Inspector is satisfied that the employer is not willing to pay the wages or holiday pay or other money to the employee in a reasonable manner or within a reasonable time. (2) A demand notice must be served— (a) by giving it to the employer concerned; or (b) if the employer does not accept the demand notice, by leaving it in the employer's presence and drawing the employer's attention to it. (3) A demand notice may not be served in the period commencing on 17 December and ending with the close of 8 January in the following year. (4) A demand notice has no effect to the extent, if any, that it claims money (being wages or holiday pay or other money) that was payable more than 6 years earlier than the date on which the demand notice is served on the employer concerned. Subsection (1)(a) was amended, as from 1 April 2004, by section 91(2) Holidays Act 2003 (2003 No 129) by substituting the words “ Holidays Act 2003 ” for the words “ Holidays Act 1981 ” .