Model Contract For Provision Of Services (Self-Employment) printable pdf download

Model Contract for Provision of Services

(Self Employment)

AGREEMENT FOR SERVICES IN RELATION TO___________________________________

THIS AGREEMENT is made the day of____________________________________

BETWEEN__________________________________________

1. Of

(‘The company’)

And

_________________________________________

2. Of

(‘The sub-contractor’)

NOW IT IS AGREED:

1 ENGAGEMENT OF SUB-CONTRACTOR

1.1 The company hereby engages the sub-Contractor for a period of 12 months to provide the

service of

The period should preferably be linked to the completion of a task but if a time-based

engagement is unavoidable the period should not exceed 12 months. Ideally the services

should refer to a task and not a role.

(‘‘The services’’), in accordance with the terms and conditions hereinafter appearing.

1.2 This appointment is mutually non-exclusive and the Sub-Contractor shall be entitled, at his

own expense, to substitute or to employ some other worker, having the requisite skills and who

is acceptable to The Company, to perform the services. The Sub-Contractor shall in any event

always provide such a substitute where the provision of the services is unduly delayed by

absence due to incapacity, or for any other reason upon notification by a duly authorised

representative of The Company that the delay occasioned is unacceptable.

It is important the Sub-Contractor is free to choose whether or not to undertake the services

personally. The ability to supply a substitute worker is vital to maintaining self-employed status.

It matters not whether the Sub-Contractor actually exercises this right providing it is real

possibility.

1.3 It is understood and agreed that Sub-Contractor’s activities and those of his substitutes or

employees are at all times under Sub-Contractor’s exclusive direction and control.

1.4 Sub-Contractor is responsible for the quality of the work undertaken and shall ensure that

the services are performed with all reasonable care and without limitation is wholly responsible

for ensuring that anyone authorised by him to perform all or any part of the services shall also

do so competently and with reasonable care.

1.5 Sub-Contractors shall be responsible for organising how and in what order the work is done,

and shall liase with The Company’s on-site representative to ensure that due account is taken of

Model Contract For Provision Of Services (Self-Employment)