Section 47 — Effect of regulations ratifying agreement

(1) This section applies if the appropriate authority makes regulations under section 46 ratifying (to any extent) an agreement submitted by a Negotiating Body.

(2) If the agreement relates to a social care worker’s remuneration, the social care worker’s remuneration is to be determined and paid in accordance with the agreement.

(3) A provision of the agreement that relates to any other term or condition of a social care worker’s employment has effect as a term of the social care worker’s contract.

(4) A term of that contract has no effect to the extent that it makes provision that is prohibited by, or is otherwise inconsistent with, the agreement.

(5) Subsections (2) to (4)—

(a) do not apply in relation to a term or condition of a social care worker’s employment if, and to the extent that, giving effect to the agreement would alter the term or condition to the social care worker’s detriment;

(b) do not prevent the terms and conditions of a social care worker’s employment from including a term or condition that is more favourable to the social care worker than that which would otherwise have effect by virtue of those subsections.