HC Deb 05 March 1912 vol 35 cc321-2W
Major M'MICKING

asked the Secretary to the Treasury whether the Insurance Commissioners propose to issue regulations showing who will be responsible for the payment of contributions under the National Insurance Act in the case of a farmer who contracts with a man to work his farm, the farm servants being engaged by and working under the general control and management of the sub-contractor?

Mr. MASTERMAN

If the servants are under the general control and management of the sub-contractor and not of the farmer, the sub-contractor is the employer, and the Commission have no power by regulations to make any other person the employer for the purposes of the Act.